On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Neil Bradley wrote:
> > hmmmm Raspberry Pi
> >
> > www.raspberrypi.org/
> That'd be like using a pile driver to pound in a nail to hang a picture.
> Plus, Linux isn't even remotely realtime enough to handle the quick
> response needed for beam cutoff. Low latency in the 10s of 100s of
> nanoseconds range is needed.
Don't think of it as a Linux board. Think of it as a pre-made ARM board for
$25 that you can load any firmware on. Then all the project needs is the DAC
stuff. Now you have the option of an open-source project that any of us
could build on perf board with point to point wireing.
Maybe :-) At least it doesn't mean having to fab an ARM as part of the
project. Instead it could leverage the Raspberry Pi's existing economy of
scale.
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