<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Good evening to all....</div><div><br></div><div>I was just pondering a few things and thought I would bounce my ideas off of everyone here and see what you thought...</div><div><br></div><div>I have been debating on getting a beagleboard to play around with since it seems to be a good mate to the HPSDR project. I know it has been mentioned many times here and I think I have even responded to some of them. However, every time I check DigiKey, they are sold out of them. I have read elsewhere that Digikey gets sent a certain number of boards per week, but they always seem to be out whenever I check.</div><div><br></div><div>Now... Here is the fun part. I was searching around on the beagleboard.org site and found this.</div><div><br></div><div><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.kwikbyte.com/KBOC.html">http://www.kwikbyte.com/KBOC.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>The part I really liked is that it is just a board with a couple of "stack connectors" on the bottom. The site states that it is fully compatible with the beagleboard and with its design, it just begs to be mated to a board that can plug into Atlas. They also have a "Base Board" that breaks out everything to standard connectors, much like the beagleboard has, plus more, for development. </div><div><br></div><div><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.kwikbyte.com/KBOC_BB1.html">http://www.kwikbyte.com/KBOC_BB1.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>It does end up at a slightly higher cost than the beagleboard, however I think in the end it is cheaper than getting the beagleboard and all of the necessary cables, adaptors and such to actually start using it. </div><div><br></div><div>So... the question is,
what do you think?? Would this be more useful than the standard beagleboard? Is anyone still even considering the use of a beagleboard and I have just missed that conversation?</div><div><br></div><div>73!!</div><div><br></div><div>Vern -- KC8YOH</div><div style="position:fixed"></div></div><br>
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