Am Sonntag, 5. Juli 2015 00:49:28 UTC+2 schrieb Bruce Boyes: > > I'm a little confused by the product idea. I like the idea of a small > module... but with the baseboard added, so it is equivalent to a BBB, the > price is $110, 2X the price of a BBB. The two must be soldered together, so > you don't gain a pluggable/replaceable module. What is the benefit in that? > I also wonder > > 1. ... > 2. ... <http://www.cotsjournalonline.com/articles/view/101717> > 3. On the Beaglecore website it says the core must be carefully > soldered to the baseboard: *It also means that the soldering has to be > executed by a professional EMS company or by an experienced soldering > technician. This package is called Land Grid Array (LGA)* > 4. ... > 5. If just the core module is $51 (the bulk pack of 50 is USD$2569) > and I can't do anything with it without a baseboard, how does this give me > more freedom vs the BBB for $55 and I add shields if I need them? > 6. Today I can get the mikroBUS cape > http://beagleboard.org/project/mikrobus for only $9 (I should get > some, just learned about this now) and then plug on a wide array of > 'click' > boards which are all around $20, alledgedly with C code available for all. > I have not tried these nor am I in any way associated > with MikroElektronika, I'm just pointing out an available (today) solution. > > Hi!
I think you are missing the point: BeagleCore is not about having a BeagleBone Black Clone for double the price - it's about using all the software/experience of the BBB community and integrate them in a "professional" (non-Cape-like) device with a custom form-factor. It is not targeted at "makers", "cape-stackers" or "click-board-users", but people who want to transfer their (maybe cape-based/-originated) design into a ready-to-be-sold product. Therefore I also regard the baseboard to be of little use, as, as they claim it, the BeagleCore is 100% compatible. Therefore, for my side, I will directly head towards a custom baseboard and see if I get lucky. In line with this is the soldering technique, which is, btw. the same as the PhyTec PhyCORE AM335X. PhyTec just calls it "DSC", although you can use their DSC footprint to use some (insanely expensive) board-to-board connectors. Therefore, I think their approach is well thought and I clearly see the rationale behind the concept. Although I am not sure if they get enough people to initial buy it to maintain a long term supply. Best regards Robert -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
