🖥️ Eleduino BeagleBone Black Rev C (4G) SBC Development Board Review

Worked fine for about 3 weeks then just stopped loading. Worked fine when I turned it off. When I tried turning it back on a few days later, all I saw was a brief flash of the Power LED and then nothing. The board appears to be dead. After some searching on the internet, this doesn't seem too uncommon. To be a hobbyist platform, it has to be more reliable than this one.

Your satisfaction with this board will directly proportional to how much time and energy you want to put into it. This is not a Raspberry Pi and those who buy it with such expectations will be disappointed. The support community is smaller and the learning curve is steeper. However, this is a great development board for the AM3359 processor and will not disappoint. For those who want to run their own Linux distribution, buildroot and yocto offer a turnkey compilation solution. Graphics drivers…

This is a versatile little board with lots of fans. Not as powerful as the RPi for video capabilities, but if you want real-time I/O then this is what you need. You can get started with a single USB cable (included) from the board to your computer. There are several good books devoted to this board, the best of which (in my opinion) is Derek Molloy's Learning the BeagleBone.

SO TIRED OF USB PROBLEMS. I don't know why I've kept struggling to get these damn things (I have several of them) to work reliably with USB hot-plugging, not generate random data errors with high-speed USB UARTs, and so on. On a recent work project I switched to a Raspberry Pi (relatively less powerful) and it's a relief to have a reasonably reliable USB connection to the host. I've had Beagle boards since my first one and the BeagleBone Black really annoyed me. Not just me, google for BBB USB…

I should have searched more but it doesn't work with Macs. The drive is a Microsoft FAT formatted drive and the Mac cannot write to it. Anyway, it doesn't work the way I set it up. I need to connect it to my windows system. It's compact and has plenty of pins for whatever you want to do. This was described on "The American Raspberry Pi". Of course I will buy it. (I have) It's smaller which is a plus. It might not have what the Pi has, but it's perfect for small and special projects. This is a…

BB Black Rev C. is a great controller with many interfaces built in. I wish the GPIO lines were better buffered as I blew another BB by putting 5v into one. But there are many ways to write software for it. I've written a few JavaScript utilities, but I've done the most complex stuff in C++ using Visual Studio for Linux cross-development tools. This way I get a great VS IDE and can debug both the BB program and the external client at the same time, with interdependent breakpoints, command…

Maybe I should have researched a bit more but it doesn't work well with Mac. The drive is a Microsoft FAT formatted drive and the Mac cannot write to it. Anyway, it doesn't work the way I set it up. I need to connect it to my windows system. It's compact and has plenty of pins for whatever you want to do. This was described on "The American Raspberry Pi". Of course I will buy it. (I have) It's smaller which is a plus. It might not have what the Pi has, but it's perfect for small and special…

Excellent Single Board Computer. I actually use one of these in a professional setting. I prefer them over Raspberry Pi (1, 3 etc) as they have more GPIOs and are a fully open platform. No WiFi, but that doesn't bother me. I don't like using Wi-Fi for an embedded device unless it's used for experimentation. Ethernet is much more stable. The best thing about them and the BeagleBone Green is that the micro USB port acts as a USB serial console port for Linux, power and a USB RNDIS Ethernet device

============How to choose between BeagleBone Black and Raspberry Pi============If you just want to run XBMC /Kodi then BBB is useless. Get a Raspberry Pi. If you have a hardware project where you need to drive a lot of sensors and motors (but don't need HD video playback or high-resolution display over HDMI), BBB is your best bet. If you are an educator and want to teach your students programming skills, use the Raspberry Pi and its learning materials. If you want to work with the latest ARM…