this is a very old thread, it has been several revisions of both beagle boards (e.g. beagle bone black) & raspberry pi since then e.g. today we've rpi 3 model B which sports a quadcore A53 while beagleboard has x15 which is a 'monster of a (embedded) board'
i actually wished that x15 would be somewhat more economical to afford but nevertheless x15 has all the horsepower for very fast io computing (e.g. the many RPU units + dual core high performance processes) which puts it in a different class to a similar level as high speed FPGAs fast forward to today, i'd say beagle bone black vs raspberry pi (3) meets different needs. for the pi 3, i actually like the rather low cost high megapixel cameras with its high speed (csi) interfaces, quad core a53 and the affordable price point, this time round it could really do hd 1080p, the downside unfortunately is that the cpu / soc technical docs/manuals is not officially released to the public, MIPI CSI / DSI proprietary interfaces remains a NDA affair the other thing i think the full sized hdmi connector is rather convenient. as for beagle bone black, i tend to find that the micro hdmi connector is spaced too closely to the usb connect for now x15 is somewhat too pricey for my (hobby) purposes but i still find the plain old beagle bone black a useful board in many circumstances. the open documentation and the headers design (all the IO lines is exposed) is a big win on the beagle bone black. it can readily be interfaced with other micro-controller projects such as the stm32 F1, stm32 F4, ESP 8266 (for wifi) boards the built in lcd controller brought about these commercial LCD / touchscreen solutions http://sg.element14.com/4d-systems/4dcape-70t/lcd-cape-module-bbone-black-dev/dp/2451218 http://sg.element14.com/element14/bb-view-70/7inch-lcd-display-cape-for-beaglebone/dp/2364757 http://sg.element14.com/4d-systems/4dcape-43t/lcd-cape-module-bbone-black-dev/dp/2451217 i bought one of those lcds which makes beagle bone black very much a complete mobile computer in which the GPIO lines are ready to be used. this puts the beagle bone black into a different league on its own, it become a very strong platform for portable monitoring / sensor devices e.g. it can readily be used as a portable oscilloscope or logic analyser http://beta.beaglelogic.net/ of course today we also have the beagle bone black wireless that makes it even more useful -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/d887d2e6-3944-4174-8627-953f48604f4e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
