<div dir="ltr"><div><div>That, plus having to write your own drivers to talk to anything useful is the real reason I like working with lower level processors. The bare metal is much more accessible in an AVR (and also an ARM7). When I have as much power as the BBB gives, I want Linux, because I want to plug in wifi dongles and usb devices and so on. I spend at least half my time on my BBB trying to configure drivers and subsystems, trying to make it work and keep it working each time it boots up.<br>
<br></div>As another side, the BBB is huge (compared to, say, a Teensy 3.1). It simply won't fit into the class of robot I'm building around the Teensy. Check out my blog (<a href="http://blog.huv.com">http://blog.huv.com</a>) for some pictures.<br>
<br></div>- Jon<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Bob Hartwig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobjects@gmail.com" target="_blank">bobjects@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Why not program the BBB's bare metal? Too much error-prone hassle to initialize everything?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
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On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:17 PM, tim Rowledge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 23-12-2013, at 4:00 PM, Jon Hylands <<a href="mailto:jon@huv.com" target="_blank">jon@huv.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The real win over the Beaglebone Black (I have one of those too) is that there is no complication of the OS, and it boots instantly when you turn on the power. You're working on the metal, which can be fun in some cases.<br>
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</div>Run RISC OS. It’s about as close to bare metal as you can get and still have a helpful OS around to start from. Unlike unixy OSs it lets you get straight to the metal; no ring 0 authorisation hoops to jump through.<br>
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tim Rowledge; <a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>; <a href="http://www.rowledge.org/tim" target="_blank">http://www.rowledge.org/tim</a><br>
</div>Trojan: Storage device for replicating codes...<br>
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