[TriEmbed] (POE) Ethernet microcontroller

[John Vaughters]

Rodney,
Yes I understand, but I felt that there was some confusion between commercial and production and I wanted to clarify my statement. The distinction being Commercial as creating a product to sell and Production just something you implement yourself and expect reliability becasue you are depending on it. As far as production, my main issue with R-Pi is booting from the SD card. I would prefer not to rely on an SD card. 

Custom builds being an entirely different situation. I agree there is a break even point to build your own.

John Vaughters





On Friday, March 21, 2014 4:49 PM, Rodney Radford <ncgadgetry at gmail.com> wrote:
 
John, I was referring to Glen's comment about the advantages of the BBB over RPi for production but as for production - I would have no problems putting either of them directly as a component in a low-volume unit production product. I have built products that ship with embedded PCs and I see nothing substandard about either of these boards that would preclude them from a production product.

Now if you are shipping in the hundreds or higher then you could build your own board for less - basically there is a break even point where the cost of the prebuilt unit exceeds the engineering costs to build your own.




On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:22 PM, John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Just to clarify my statements. I am not saying use R-Pi for production. I would never consider that an option. I was pointing out the Embedded SOC market and using R-Pi as an example becasue most know what it is. Rather, there are tons of Embedded SOC products out there and if I was looking for one, I might consider spending more on that device for reliability and using the cheap Arduino's for I/O connected via UART. This being a very reliable configuration and this allows for replacement of the cheap arduinos. Commercial product never entered my mind on this issue because I thought this was just a building enhancement not a product to sell. But that conversation is interesting. 
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