[hpsdr] Sasquatch II

[Philip Covington]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Frank Brickle <brickle at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Philip Covington <p.covington at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Bob McGwier <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > ...
>> > It CAN run erlang and do the VR kernel bit and run a yaws server as
>> > well!
>>
>> ...
>
>
>>
>> Of course, eventually you'd want to do your own OMAP board, but the
>> BeagleBoard looks like it would be useful for experimentation.  All of
>> the build files are available including Gerbers.
>
>  Two thoughts, obliquely related.
>
> (1) An OMAP board would provide *very* deep system infrastructure support.
> Much of what you'd want to provide in the way of system services to the DSP
> code is off-the-shelf. Likewise the paths to the outside world, user apps,
> etc. Likewise room for later expansion of functionality, etc.
>
> (2) A development trajectory like generic platform -> Beagle Board -> custom
> OMAP means that a working development environment would be available, free,
> and would come with a significant support community, *right now*.
>
> My private opinion, not one I'm urging on anybody else, is that *not* using
> a strategy like (2) is mostly an expression of severe NIH syndrome.
>
> 73
> Frank
> AB2KT
>
> --
> If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he
> gave it to. -- Dorothy Parker
>

After looking at the BeagleBoard HRM in more detail and seeing the
possibilities with the expansion connector, I could not resist and
ordered one.  DigiKey has 0 stock right now, but they expect to have
more in a week or so.  Estimated shipping date is 12/16/2008.

Cool stuff!

73 Phil N8VB

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