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I feel that the activities in General have slowed down a bit since the day it has been excluded off Spy..
Don't think I'll ever really need something like that, though. Besides, I've already got an Arduino, and I don't do much with it anymore.
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Thinking that i'd rather an arduino as its SO much cheaper.
Keep in mind of course that the "BeagleBoard" provides a lot more horsepower than even the biggest, baddest Arduino you can get (that I know of ). The Arduino boards have a 16MHz Atmel ATmega microcontroller on them, whereas the BeagleBoard has a full ARM CPU. You could install a Linux on it if you wanted.
The 3-inch–square BeagleBoard-xM runs a full Linux operating system with desktop managers and office applications. It also includes a 2-D and 3-D graphics accelerator, a port to add a computer monitor and an S-video port for TV.
EDIT: And it has 512 MB of RAM.
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What were they talking about, exactly? I've never heard of any news station, local, national, or worldwide, that has mentioned Linux at all, in a good or bad light. Then again, I haven't watched the news in a long time, so...
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@brucehinrichs
That's funny, I've looked at that myself!
Don't think I'll ever really need something like that, though. Besides, I've already got an Arduino, and I don't do much with it anymore.
Keep in mind of course that the "BeagleBoard" provides a lot more horsepower than even the biggest, baddest Arduino you can get (that I know of ). The Arduino boards have a 16MHz Atmel ATmega microcontroller on them, whereas the BeagleBoard has a full ARM CPU. You could install a Linux on it if you wanted.
16MHZ is actually better because its a challenge to see if you can make the program go fast and fit in the tiny memory.
What were they talking about, exactly? I've never heard of any news station, local, national, or worldwide, that has mentioned Linux at all, in a good or bad light. Then again, I haven't watched the news in a long time, so...
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). The Arduino boards have a 16MHz Atmel ATmega microcontroller on them, whereas the BeagleBoard has a full ARM CPU. You could install a Linux on it if you wanted. 
