Actually I think it is a good idea to keep most of this(pollution 
) on the forum as there appears to be more people interested in the Pi and maybe we will get more cross pollination of information and ideas.
Kurt
A quick update: To say that I am still working with the Raspberry Pi, but over this last month I also purchased a BeagleBone Black (BBBk), which I have been talking about over on the Trossen forums: beagleboard.org/Community/Forums ⊠520Support
I still have my first RPI mounted on a T-Hex, with a prototype SSC-32u, which I need to get back to as there may be new firmware to try out on the SSC-32u, which may have more of the features implemented, that I need.
Yesterday, I mounted the BBBk on my Orion Robotics Razor 4wd Rover and have some of the Basics working. More details up on the forum: forums.orionrobotics.com/topic70.html Lots more work to be done here.
Over the next week or so, I will probably also mount the 2nd RPI in my Lynxmotion 4wd Rover, using a 2nd Roboclaw, this will allow me to test both Platforms (BBBk/RPI) as I am not sure yet which I like better. Both have pluses and minuses.
As part of this yesterday I updated my RPI github project with a checkpoint of the stuff off of the BBBk, which I hopefully have enough conditional stuff in the makefiles that allow things to compile on both boards. I also moved some stuff around to make it easier to reuse for different programs and I added support for the Roboclaw, which I ported the Arduino code from Basic Micro and converted it to use my Serial wrapper class. Again this is all up at:
github.com/KurtE/Raspberry_Pi
Kurt
When a company says âLinux compatible,â they are usually not including embedded systems.
8-Dale
Though I wouldnât call a Rpi an embedded system.
I have been doing some stuff using Python and the curses module. Iâm creating a client for App.net (a subscription based messaging platform). Curses (ncurses) has some quirks, but it is very useful. I have a Python class wrapped around the curses functions. Some of it might be useful to you.
8-Dale
The Rasberry Pi, BeagleBoards, BeagleBone, and others, are indeed embedded boards.
8-Dale
I classify embedded systems as a device that does a specific function. Like an arduino.
If a device can be a music player, a movie player has a full desktop gui with a web browser for surfing the internet I canât seem to classify that as a embedded system. I know a few guys that have a Raspi as their kids desktop computers. They play games, surf the web and watch videos on it.
But I do see your point of view. 
Ignore my comments. The more I think about it, you are right, those are considered embedded systems.
Cheers,
Kevin
Hi Guys,
Interesting conversation, I personally think all of these boards are embedded systems as they are complete processors⊠But these days I try to stay out of religious wars. Things like what is real time programmingâŠ
Dale - Long time no see. Hope things are going well
KUrt
I am using this WiFi dongle with my BeagleBone Black, and will test it on my BeagleBoard-xM tonight. So far, it as performed great!
I can SSH into any of my systems from my Android tablet.
8-Dale
Me too! I was just correcting some terminology usage.
Not bad at all. I will be back here more often, now that I am getting back into robotics. I am going to go with a different platform though, this time around. I also have a BotBoarduino and new SSC-32. I had my smartphone connected to my BBBk the other night for a serial console.
8-Dale