[TriEmbed] (POE) Ethernet microcontroller

[Rodney Radford]

When i said production I was using it in the sense of producing a product
to sell - what you are referring to as commercial.  I have built several
embedded systems that are currently in use and sold (commercial) and some
in very remote locations where the option of going back in to fix it is out
of the question.

Not sure what the issue is with an SD card in a commercial product, but
there are a lot of embedded systems that boot off an SD card.


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:36 PM, John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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
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>   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.
>
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> 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.
>
> John Vaughters
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