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posted by FatPhil on Thursday June 22 2017, @01:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the Pi-in-the-sky dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The results are in: The Raspberry Pi 3 is the most desired maker SBC by a 4-to-1 margin. In other trends: x86 SBCs and Linux/Arduino hybrids get a boost.

More than ever, it's a Raspberry Pi world, and other Linux hacker boards are just living in it. Our 2017 hacker board survey gives the Raspberry Pi 3 a total of 2,583 votes — four times the number of the second-ranked board, the Raspberry Pi Zero W.

[...] Note that by "votes" we are referring to Borda rankings that combine 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice rankings [...]

So, which if any credit-card-sized computers are you lot playing around with?

Source: http://linuxgizmos.com/2017-hacker-board-survey-raspberry-pi-still-rules-but-x86-sbcs-make-gains/


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 22 2017, @04:41PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 22 2017, @04:41PM (#529559) Journal

    Can't you have Pi / BeagleBone / etc that speaks I2C to a few slave Arduinos that have lots of PWM and analog I/O. That way you can have high level logic on the Pi, and low level control on the Arduinos.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday June 22 2017, @07:36PM (2 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Thursday June 22 2017, @07:36PM (#529628) Journal

    You certainly can. But that increases the part count and complicates things. I'd prefer that the I/O be part of the SoC to keep things simple. I'd like to see at least 6-8 ADC inputs @ 12 bits minimum along with 4+ 16 bit PWM outputs. Then give me a simple interface to them via /dev/gpio or something.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @05:44AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @05:44AM (#530479)

      The BBB already meets your requirements. It has seven 12-bit ADCs and eight 16-bit PWMs. All are easy to use from userspace.

      • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Saturday June 24 2017, @12:39PM

        by LoRdTAW (3755) on Saturday June 24 2017, @12:39PM (#530540) Journal

        You know, I have had a lot of problem with the BBB hardware. Had two boards died on me, both from eMMC failures.