Hi,
my name is Niklas, i am a student of engineering in Kassel (Germany).
I have a few questions about the BeagleBoard.
I hope you will help me.
1. How many BeagleBoards are sold ?
2. What are the tasks of the community ? They weren't able to participate in development, were they ?
Thanks for helping me.
I need these information for my dissertation about "open source design for manufacturing" .
Sincere regards
Niklas Schwenke
We have sold 60,000 BealgeBoards to date. Yes, the community gets involved in suggestions for future features. We added the LCD connector based on requests from the community. BB-xM added more USB ports based on requests as well. No the HW is not designed by 4000 people getting involved in making schematics. That would lead to a very ugly piece of HW.
The community provides a mutual support network for adding SW features, wrting drivers for peripherals, add applications, helping those that are lost find their way, talking about new features and functions.
Gerald
You may find these helpful:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ0OPT5s9aQ
http://www.edn.com/article/458593-Take_advantage_of_open_source_hardware.php
Gerald
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my name is Niklas, i am a student of engineering in Kassel (Germany).
I have a few questions about the BeagleBoard.
I hope you will help me.1. How many BeagleBoards are sold ?
2. What are the tasks of the community ? They weren't able to participate
in development, were they ?Thanks for helping me.
I need these information for my dissertation about "open source design for
manufacturing" .
You might also have a look at the GTA04 [1] project. It is based on the beagle board and has as many opensource as you can achive. It is planned as a successor of the Openmoko Freerunner [2], which also for example has an opensource case design.
[1] www.gta04.org
[2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
Alex.
Hi Gerald,
Can you please let me know the numbers for beaglebone?
It would be of great help.
Thanks in advance.
-Kartik
BeagleBone, I don’t really know. Roughly 40,000 I would guess.
Gerald