OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project

Re:OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project by bsder on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:49PM (#18880049)

Why not Beaglebone Black/Green/Blue? This is a real question.

TI's stuff is open. TI's manuals are awesome. It already exists. There are user iterations that are different from the TI reference. The board is a much cheaper 6 layer board.

What niche does this serve that a Beaglebone would not?

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Re:OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project by johnwalkr on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:06AM (#18881362)

I use iMX6 because it has nice features for image processing, like compressing camera input to H264 before putting information to memory.

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Re:OpenRex – Open Source Hardware Project by sigmaprimus on Thursday January 10, 2019 @11:29PM (#18881016)

I have worked with TI boards in the past and agree they have great documentation also. One pitfall I did run into however was that the development boards are sold at a very low price but when you get into production quantities, I found the prices were higher. Sort of a loss leader business model. But yes if you want something to hack around with and are looking for great documentation and tool chains TI is definitely worth considering.

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