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Rate These 53 Sub-$200 Hacker SBCs, Win 1 of 20
DeviceGuru writes: LinuxGizmos and Linux.com have just launched their annual 2-minute survey asking folks to rate their favorite hacker SBCs from a list of 53 single board computers that are priced below $200, supported by open documentation and Linux or Android OSes, and will ship before July. As usual, the survey's data will be made available publicly, but one big change this year is that participants can register for a random drawing that will give away 20 hacker SBCs, split equally among the BeagleBone Black, Imagination Creator CI20, Intel Edison Kit for Arduino, and Qualcomm DragonBoard 410c. (Emails submitted will only be used for selecting and notifying SBC drawing winners, say the sites.)
I never get first post...
When did this kind of shit become the norm for Slashdot?
we get to own your data, but you *might* _have_a_chance_to_ win something, maybe.
Second prize is a guaranteed vector for identity theft!
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
I'd be more than happy to fill in your survey.
All you've got to do is send me one of each of these SBCs (free) so I can evaluate them properly.
I mean, it's only logical, right?
gonna git ya thrown into jail with NO 4th amendment rights
I'd rather care if it can run step steppers 100khz+ rates reliably rather than if it has quad core or even 1ghz.
da faq though about the survey...
like.. the fuck do they expect to get answers on if boards that are not available are good or not? I was hoping it would be a good list of boards that can be bought, like, right now.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
What I would really like to see is Arm 64bi@1Ghz+t, RTC, 4GB+, 2 SATA (power&Data, 2 ethernet (PoE in [& out with extern P/S] would be nice) with Arch or Fedora 22 linux on bootable SD and a case to mount 2 2.5 drives and the board.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
Ehh...
Whether something is worth my money or not, depends on what value the thing has to me, in cases where I am spending the money. For whatever reason. Note that "specs" isn't even mentioned in that sentence.
Apparently for you, anything under quad core / 1 Ghz / 1 GB = no value. For others though, that may be different (again: for whatever reason).
... it's called linguistic deletion
http://www.angelfire.com/nd/danscorpio/lang.html
never seen SBC before....
You mean, my cousin?
...and you too can make $7,563 a month by searching Google!
The specs are a function of the app. If your SBC's job is to sit in the garden and read 3-wire sensors and send a message by RFM69 radio to the fileserver in the house, then no, you don't want a quad core GigaHertz machine. Your specs are inferior to an 8 MHz Arduino Pro Mini, because your piece-of-shit computer drains the tiny LiPo in a few minutes instead of a few months.
(You have just given some of the stupidest advice I ever heard, and therefore I think you are a stupid person who doesn't know anything about computers. Stupid and ignorant. And you spouted off, too, so we have arrogance in there as well. Stupid, ignorant, and arrogant: that's you. You don't know anything, you don't have the capacity to change that, and you don't have the desire. I bet the chicks are ringing your mom's doorbell constantly, always asking her if you're home and if you can come out and play, huh? No? Imagine that! Well, at least if the chicks don't want to have anything to do with you, nerds do, right? Oops, no, that stupidity and ignorance thing is there again. "Hey, AC says the job needs a gigahertz and a gigabyte!" one says to another, and then they laugh their asses off at the technical blank slate of your mind. Your garden sensor only runs for a minute, and your realtime ray tracer gets about 0.75 FPS. You fail consistently, with your rote parroting of the canned answer that is almost never correct unless by random chance. Because you don't understand anything, and just remember a few phrases you overheard one of your customers say to another, when you were cutting their hair at the salon. But maybe you can use those words, ah yes, "anything under that is not even worth your money," yes, in some moment of desperation those words might finally get you out of mom's house, and in a less humiliating job, or it could even get you your first kiss. Surely, there has got to be some pre-recorded phrase you can utter, that will some day fool someone into thinking that there is a person behind your eyes. Well, you totally flubbed up this time, I'm afraid. Your bullshit got spotted immediately, because you were talking about computers on Slashdot. But keep trying! That girl you trade shifts with at the salon: maybe she won't understand the stupidity of your "minimum specs" or at least won't catch on until after you've already lost your virginity. Could it be? Is this the mindless phrase that will work, if only (only only only! You're got to hope!) she is also just as ignorant about computers as you.)
And that gets to the heart of the "article"'s stupidity. You can't objectively rate any of this stuff relative to one another. Before you know whether an Arduino or a Teensy or Pi or Edison or multiple LGA 2011 Xeons is "better" or "worse," you have to first answer: what's it for?
Last year I was looking into getting either a Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black. BBB had a newer ARM rev for the CPU, so it can run more kinds of OS. But the RPi has the removable flash as its drive, so you can easily load whatever OS image you want, change OSs by switching flash chips, and if you hose it too badly you can take it out and reload, without worrying about whether you've bricked the board. Also, the specs at the time said the RPi had a better GPU, and could do 1080p at 60 Hz vs. only 30Hz for BBB, which means I can plug it into TVs and monitors without as much flicker. I chose the RPi.
BBB nominally costs a bit more, but by the time you buy cases and power supplies and flash and such, it pretty much balances out.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks