On Wednesday 30 July 2014, Ken Restivo wrote: > I dunno, I kind of gave up on the project. Maybe I'll try again with > a BeagleBone Black if I really wanted it to work. A friend gave me the > run-down on why Raspberries are crappy, and couldn't argue. I've done > quite a bit of work with BeagleBone's in the past (pre-Black days) and found > them much better engineered-- real development boards. > > The dream 7 years ago was to have a portable, battery-powered, rock-solid, > headless Linux synth that could be controlled with a keytar-configured > USB controller for street busking and casual gigs. I'm not gigging anymore > and can't imagine wanting to, so it's kind of moot now. And yet, having > that project still un-completed-- but so close to being possible-- > continues to nag at me. > use a Banana Pi, it is not nearly as crappy as Raspberry, much more powerfull (2 cores, 1 GHz, 1 GB), consumes less power and only a bit more expensive: see here http://hardware-libre.fr/2014/06/raspberry-vs-banana-hardware-duel/ and here http://hardware-libre.fr/2014/06/raspberry-vs-banana-vs-a10-olinuxino-powering-and-sata-performance/ Gerhard _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
