[N8VEM: 15982] BeagleBone SBC $45

[Don Caprio]

This is not a home brew system but this BeagleBone SBC
may be of interest. $45 runs Linux, Ubuntu and Android.

http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&productId=2176149&catalogId=10001&sp_rid=MTgyNDYwNDk4MTMS1&sp_mid=5144573

[Vince Mulhollon]

Post by Don Caprio
This is not a home brew system but this BeagleBone SBC

I've been rolling around in my head the idea of attaching a raspberry pi
(more or less same idea as the BB although somewhat different specs) to
either an ECB advanced prototyper board or just a plain ole SBC-v2 parallel
port or maybe even just via RS-232 to usb adapter.

Then just treat it as a magic way to do a terminal. Much like the numerous
propeller projects, except it uses USB for keyboard instead of PS/2 and
HDMI for video instead of VGA.

I have a lot on my desk both N8VEM related and especially stuff not
related, so its going to be awhile before I do anything with this idea, if
ever.

It just seems obvious, I already attach my SBCv2 system to my giant linux
desktop computer using a RS232 to usb converter, and run minicom and all
that as my main platform to do N8VEM stuff other than burning eproms (which
I can only do under windows (boo!)). So using the pi seems the obvious
next step, also running linux and running the same minicom terminal program
and everything. Even the distros are about the same I run debian on the
desktop and the pi uses raspebian or whatever based on debian. So no
problemo to use what amounts to a really tiny desktop as a terminal.

Since its free idea day, I've also been rolling around in my brain what it
would take to make something like a ECB compatible / arduino compatible
shield card. So there's a nice arduino motor controller... fine plug that
dude into a magic card connected to a N8VEM ECB bus and you can use any
arduino hardware with mbasic on cpm. This all came from my attempts at
hooking up a wiznet811J ethernet controller to the n8vem sbcv2 parallel
port, thats the same device the arduino ethernet shield uses, so I'm
thinking.... why not just use an ethernet shield, and if I had a shield
compatible adapter, then enormous amounts of arduino hardware interfaces
would be plug compatible. In my infinite spare time, of course.