On Wednesday 30 July 2014, Ken Restivo wrote:
I dunno, I kind of gave up on the project. Maybe
I'll try again with
a BeagleBone Black if I really wanted it to work. A friend gave me the
run-down on why Raspberries are crappy, and couldn't argue. I've done
quite a bit of work with BeagleBone's in the past (pre-Black days) and found
them much better engineered-- real development boards.
The dream 7 years ago was to have a portable, battery-powered, rock-solid,
headless Linux synth that could be controlled with a keytar-configured
USB controller for street busking and casual gigs. I'm not gigging anymore
and can't imagine wanting to, so it's kind of moot now. And yet, having
that project still un-completed-- but so close to being possible--
continues to nag at me.
use a Banana Pi, it is not nearly as crappy as Raspberry, much more powerfull (2 cores, 1
GHz, 1 GB), consumes less power and only a bit more expensive:
see here
http://hardware-libre.fr/2014/06/raspberry-vs-banana-hardware-duel/
and here
http://hardware-libre.fr/2014/06/raspberry-vs-banana-vs-a10-olinuxino-power…
Gerhard