Minnowboard anyone experience?

Hello, just saw this popup on Ars:

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2...berry-pi-competitor/

Also see www.minnowboard.org/

Anyone has experience with this?
It has no parallel port, but this could probably be made through the expansion slot, or directly through the gpio pins.

Curious what other linuxcnc users think

Regards, Peter

Hi

Very nice board, good to see a proper x86 processor on a small board, removes 50% of the faffing about straight away.

It has no parallel port, but this could probably be made through the expansion slot, or directly through the gpio pins.

You could doubtless use a PCI e parport card, the GPIO only has 8 pins, so could not simulate a full parport.

A huge prob is this

Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600

This is the chipset that the D2500 - 2800 use and the drivers are completely closed source and windoze only
There are drivers starting to appear for the > 3.xx kernels, which does not assist anyone running the current releases of linuxcnc.

You could run it headless, but why have a board with HDMI if you are going to do that

There is then the price.
Unless you need such a small board, you can buy 2 mini ITX D525s with 1GB RAM for the same price

Would be nice to know what latency figures it returns anyway, so if you buy one let us know

regards

Ok, not very usable...