Re: [LAU] Building an Open Source keyboard rig

On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 08:36:16 -0800 (PST)
Len Ovens <len@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Mar 2016, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
>
> > On 03/06/2016 11:50 AM, Will Godfrey wrote:
> >> Another possibility is the Odroid C2.
> >
> > Never tried it, looks very good except that you will probably be stuck
> > with a 2-year old kernel for this board. And I consider good kernel
> > support a big plus for these kind of boards. My Cubieboard 2 with an
> > Allwinner A20 CPU runs a stock Debian Jessie with a stock kernel. And
> > even though there is no support for the RPi yet the RPi Foundation
> > doesn't lag behind that much with their out-of-tree code.
>
> Right. I was looking at the odroid as the brain for my controller project
> (think no audio). In the end I chose the RPi because there are so many
> more out there and support is more current.

That's actually a very good point. The userbase for the Pi is *huge* so there
is always likely to be someone who can help you out for a single roll-your-own
project.

P.S.
Really interesting thread this has turned out to be - lots to digest!

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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