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  The Hummingboard RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-07-03 12:26 +0000
    Re: The Hummingboard Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-07-03 20:08 +0000

#3963 — The Hummingboard

From the «cool little toy» department:
Title: Move over, Raspberry Pi: Here's the HummingBoard
Author: zafiro17@pipedot.org
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 08:49:27 -0400
Link: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-07-03/move-over-raspberry-pi-heres-the-hummingboard

Probably time to admit I'm addicted to these awesome little gadget boards and
devices. And I just discovered this one: the HummingBoard[1].

Get ready to fall in love with new HummingBoard – a small and powerful,
low-cost ARM computer that ignites the imagination. Whatever your dream,
the HummingBoard will help make it happen – the possibilities for creating
the next great IoT innovation are truly limitless. The HummingBoard allows
you to run many open source operating systems – such as Ubuntu, Debian and
Arch – as well as Android and XBMC. With its core technology based on
SolidRun’s state-of-the-art Micro System on a Module (MicroSOM), it has
ready-to-use OS images, and its open hardware comes with full schematics
and layout. Best of all, as a Linux single board computer, the HummingBoard
is backed by the global digital maker community, which means you can alter
the product in any way you like and get full kernel upstreaming support and
all the assistance you need.

The big, obvious advantage is that the USB hub is powered, which would allow
you to connect it to an external hard drive full of your data, something
that's kind of a hassle with the Raspberry Pi (well, not a huge hassle, but
an extra step).

Links:
[1]: http://www.solid-run.com/products/hummingboard/ (link)

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On 2014-07-03, RS Wood wrote:
> From the «cool little toy» department:
> Title: Move over, Raspberry Pi: Here's the HummingBoard
> Author: zafiro17@pipedot.org
> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 08:49:27 -0400
> Link: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-07-03/move-over-raspberry-pi-heres-the-hummingboard
>
> Probably time to admit I'm addicted to these awesome little gadget boards and
> devices. And I just discovered this one: the HummingBoard[1].
>
> Get ready to fall in love with new HummingBoard – a small and powerful,
> low-cost ARM computer that ignites the imagination. Whatever your dream,
> the HummingBoard will help make it happen – the possibilities for creating
> the next great IoT innovation are truly limitless. The HummingBoard allows
> you to run many open source operating systems – such as Ubuntu, Debian and
> Arch – as well as Android and XBMC. With its core technology based on
> SolidRun’s state-of-the-art Micro System on a Module (MicroSOM), it has
> ready-to-use OS images, and its open hardware comes with full schematics
> and layout. Best of all, as a Linux single board computer, the HummingBoard
> is backed by the global digital maker community, which means you can alter
> the product in any way you like and get full kernel upstreaming support and
> all the assistance you need.
>
> The big, obvious advantage is that the USB hub is powered, which would allow
> you to connect it to an external hard drive full of your data, something
> that's kind of a hassle with the Raspberry Pi (well, not a huge hassle, but
> an extra step).
>
> Links:
> [1]: http://www.solid-run.com/products/hummingboard/ (link)

Meh.

It has more bells and whistles than the pi (priced at $35), but
people are expecting the price to be ~ $130, which would be too
high.  Even the beaglebone black, which is closer in horsepower, is
only $49.

I'm glad they added an RTC, but still no ADC? Seriously?  That's my
biggest problem with the pi.  The ADC is the most versatile part of
a dev board -- audio processing, digital IO, voltage thresholding,
random numbers, timers, you name it I can do it.

I don't see anything specific about a hardware x264 encoder either.
That's the pi's biggest advantage against the beaglebone black, IMO.
Hopefully they included one.

I'll say the same thing about the hummingboard as I did the
minnowboard: it's in an awkward middle ground between two markets.
I'm glad that companies keep designing things like this, but I don't
see any reason to move away from the pi and the beagle yet.

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