I need orientation for buying an Arduino
I'd like to buy and Arduino SBC. The problem is that IDK anything about arduino. ¿can I make it work with a GNU/Linux-libre distro? I know that they make 3D printers too, and somewhere else I read that they also make libre hardware SBCs.
You can install the arduino package (in Trisquel, and Parabola's 'community' repository).
buy the arduino uno. I have two arduinos for my solar panel projects, but I intend to use them for other projects too (rc projects, servo controller projects, ethernet projects, etc, etc)
Arduino uno is the most used and there are lots of libraries for it. You could (as I did) buy arduino uno copy on ebay for half the price of the original. And it works exactly the same way and with the very same components.
If you have time to give, is so cool...
Keep going on!
But... how this thing works?
http://www.arduino.org/products/boards/arduino-uno
Is it a SBC like BleagleBoard? Or is for other purposes? I'll be honest, a friend offer me to buy me one, the problem is that I'd like sth. like a Banana Pi or BeagleBoard. If I'm totally wrong, please, explain me as if I were a child.
It's probably not what you're looking for.
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction
Hi, I have some experience with the Arduino. I teach kids at school how to use Arduino's. I am using laptops with Debian installed. The Arduino is then connected to the laptop trough serial USB and we use the official Arduino IDE (which is in the Debian repo's as well as Parabola and I suspect Trisquel). I also have a 3d printer using an Arduino MEGA.
We use the Arduino UNO to blink LED's, sound buzzers and we build a robot (with an extra motor shield[1]). The programming is done on the laptop in the IDE (which is very similar to C) and then compiled and uploaded to the board .The board does not run an OS or something like that. The advantage is that the program is stored on the board and start the moment the board gets power. I can just connect a 9V battary and it will start the last uploaded program which makes it ideal for robots and projects that have no need for a computer.
On Debian it is plug and play but I had some trouble getting it to work on Parabola. A few days ago I sent some time on #parabola IRC in order to get it to work. There were problems with avrdude and at the moment i only got it working as root.
Regarding teaching children and programming, I also use Raspberry Pi's (i have posted about it on this board before) but am looking to change that. I have also tried the BeagleBone (black and the new Green one with grove connectors and wifi), the Orange Pi plus and the Banana Pi but they all have some sort of negative side compared with the Pi.
The Banana Pi seems the best bet and i am running it with ARMbian at the moment and I have also installed Arch on one of the board which I am trying to convert to Parabola but no luck up yet. If anyone has some ideas on this I would be happy to hear them.
Hope this helps a bit, let me know if you need more info!
The Banana Pi seems the best bet and i am running it with ARMbian at the moment and I have also installed Arch on one of the board which I am trying to convert to Parabola but no luck up yet. If anyone has some ideas on this I would be happy to hear them.
Well, once I was playing with the BPI, I installed it Arch and then tried to move to Parabola, I was very near to achieve it, but I had to give it back, because it was borrowed.
I have been searching for an as-free-as-posible SBC for some time. I own:
- Beaglebone Black
- Beaglebone Green
- Beaglebone Green wifi
- Olimex Lime
- Olimex Lime2
- Raspberry Pi 2
- Raspberry Pi 3
- Odroid C2
- Raspberry Pi Zero
- Banana Pi
- Orange Pi plus
- I have ordered an Eoma86
I have been using Debian (standard comes with non-free activated), Arch, Bananian, Armbian, Ubuntu Mate, Angstrom and Raspbian on these boards.
What is the deal with the Banana Pi? Is it any good from a "free" point of view? I know it is far from free but what is the closest thing we can get not including the Eoma86?
They are the "single-board computers with serious flaws" (still better than the "single-board computers with fatal flaws"): https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
On 30/12/16 20:17, name at domain wrote:
> I have been searching for an as-free-as-posible SBC for some time. I own:
>
> - Beaglebone Black
> - Beaglebone Green
> - Beaglebone Green wifi
> - Olimex Lime
> - Olimex Lime2
> - Raspberry Pi 2
> - Raspberry Pi 3
> - Odroid C2
> - Raspberry Pi Zero
> - Banana Pi
> - Orange Pi plus
> - I have ordered an Eoma86
I cannot find the reference at the moment, but but from what I
recall, Beaglebone Black is libre hardware (maybe also Beaglebone
Green?), whilst Raspberry Pi isn't (also Banana Pi and Orange Pi?). As
for Eoma86, it has been sufficiently discussed in this forum.
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Ignacio Agulló · name at domain
Banana Pi is based on Raspberry Pi (I think Orange Pi too) and it uses Uboot. It's also supported by Parabola. Raspberry Pi is libre hardware, but it uses and depends in non free software
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