[sdiy] is raspberry pi the future?

[Dan Snazelle]

WOW
great thread!!
One thing 
I have learned since yesterday....the rasp pi is not truly open source..i guess some elements are closed.


This is a deal breaker.


I need a platform which if i end up making something cool, i can transfer it 100% (software and hardware) to a pcb.


So....looks like i need to look into those TI soloutions!!! 

Thanks!

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On Mar 14, 2013, at 6:13 PM, Terry Shultz <thx1138 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Eric may e correct on I/O on the Ti based solution. I am speaking mostly from a Freescale centric application point.
> 
> There again, it depends on how these pins are brought out. They are usually heavily multiplexed as most ARM devices are.
> 
> If An ARM Audio centric board is what is required. putting enough A/D-D/A channels and some GPIO pins, UARTS, USB, etc. is usually what makes these small footprints so non-desireable to most of my applications.
> 
> I work a great deal in Multi-channel Audio and 3-D Audio applications and need a bit more meat than a RPI.
> 
> Perhaps I should do a quick analysis of a TI , Freescale, Marvel based Low cost board to see what features are similar/different.
> 
> best regards,
> Terry Shultz
> thx1138 at earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 14, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> RPi is a significant step forward for low-cost / high-power embedded computing and I'm glad to see it becoming so popular. That said however it's not the last word in this space - TI has been providing embedded boards with more I/O and more modern processors for several years and isn't resting on their laurels.
>> 
>> The current low-cost / high I/O winner is the Beaglebone, which provides more than 80 pins of digital and analog interfacing, including high-speed SPI, I2C, I2S, LCD, parallel external memory and plain GPIO for less than $90. A low-cost Beaglebone with similar capabilities is right around the corner and is expected to cost about half that. See more about it here:
>> 
>> http://www.citizensinspace.org/2013/03/next-generation-beaglebone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=next-generation-beaglebone
>> 
>> For synth applications the built-in multi-channel ADC and I2S audio output protocols put it in a class beyond the RPi, and the new version drops the price point into the same neighborhood.
>> 
>> Well worth consideration.
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
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