#101

Based on my limited time with a BB AI (one evening before needing to focus on other things) - the BB AI runs way hotter at idle (uncomfortable to touch) than RPi4 idling…

#102

Interesting, I’ve resisted ordering an AI until I reduce some of my projects backlog - and hopefully this gives Bela time to update the PRU code.

I’m hoping with a reasonable heatsink the AI will work for my application, but we’ll see.
In the meantime I’m happy with the BBB now my expectations are more aligned with its abilities :slight_smile:

#103

I just finished assembling a Pepper kit I bought last year. There’s a rev 2 that has audio outputs with an amplified signal from an added op amp. The nice people at Queen Mary University of London mailed me an adapter board free of charge because I bought a rev 1 before the rev 2 was released.

Anyhoo…I’m into the possibility of at least getting monome serial devices to work on Bela. There’s only a single USB host port but it could be interesting to port some of the code from monome eurorack modules to a Pepper’d Bela. I’ve always been intrigued by the demo videos of Ansible. I think it’d also be a thing to make Bela versions of some Mutable Instruments code.

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#104

Bela is linux right? (Oops… maybe I’m wrong there?)

Serialosc or libmonome would get you connected to grid, etc. (there seem to be some people up-thread that have tried this)

There’s also ORAC for bela so you could get a number of MI implementations that way as well.

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#105

Bela is running Linux with a Xenomai real-time kernel. It really should be a better choice for audio projects than a raspberry pi, but it can be harder to treat a Bela like a computer (in my experience peripheral support was more of a challenge than it is on RPi, but then again, it’s been a while and I’m not sure how things may have evolved in the last couple of years).

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