Dear Friends,
I need a very knowledgeable person that will allow me to directly ask them a few questions about Maker Boards by email or personal messages. I have a learning disability that makes beginning a new * difficult, However, once I get the basics I learn and understand better than average.

Because I am mostly self taught with regards to Electromechanical things I have a dysfunctional order of taking in information, before I begin to learn I have to get nagging question answered. In forums most people that respond to your post are not actually trying to answer your questions they are trying to show off their big brain, belittle you, chit chat, trying to confuse you, out right don't know what's that smell they are balking about.

I didn't have toys when a kid so my toys were discarded electrical devices, broken radios and things. I would take then apart to see what's inside and try to make things with the parts. Then came the mini bikes and go carts with lawn mower engines and then, BaBoom. . . KARZ.

I taken a bunch of automotive courses in community college as well as various computer courses which included B.A.S.I.C. and a tech course in Basic Electronics and computer repair which helped me understand how basically how a CPU works with binary, hexadecimal, ascii, ect.

All of that was back in the eighties but after that I was into building PCs, but now I have a project that I want to build but I need to understand Maker Boards to continue, Please Help.

 

So what is your question about Maker Boards?
As near as I can tell it is a series of small, hopefully low cost, boards which can be used standalone or in combination to build larger projects. How you are supposed to approach the acquisition and integration of such boards is quite beyond me and I've spent nearly half a century in the embedded systems business. The best advice I can give you is not to obsess about hitting a home run the first time at bat, but do try to avoid slow stupid failure.

In practical terms you need to educate yourself by a process of trial and error. Buy someting, take it for a test drive, if it works great. Keep it in your back pocket and move on to the next thing. If a device does not work or is not suited to your style of learning, bin it or resell it, and move on. Over time you will accumulate the knowledge you require and it will be more valuable than any specific advice you get today about what to use or what to buy. Six months from now the advice will be obsolete.

 

Thank you Brave Daddy for you quick response, here are two question for starter:

• Can one Maker boards read and/or write to/from the SD card of another?
• Can two Maker boards store and retrieve data from an external storage without conflicts?

I have already ordered a Zero for foot wetting experimental purposes, a simple explanation of what I want to do is to have a bunch of boards with high quality cameras with one main board to control all of them.

 

Thank you Brave Daddy for you quick response, here are two question for starter:

• Can one Maker boards read and/or write to/from the SD card of another?
• Can two Maker boards store and retrieve data from an external storage without conflicts?

I have already ordered a Zero for foot wetting experimental purposes, a simple explanation of what I want to do is to have a bunch of boards with high quality cameras with one main board to control all of them.

If they are designed to do that there is no conceptual reason why either of your propositions would be unrealizable. Finding such boards will be your challenge and your opportunity.

An interesting transliteration of my screen name. It comes from the phonetic alphabet for the letters "P" and "B" used by the ICAO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

"P" and "B" were the last two letters in my original FCC callsign. If you look in the forum archives there are some considerably less flattering speculations about the meaning ascribed to those two letters.

 

Can the any of the following single board PC:

• Raspberry pi
• Tinker Board
• Beagleboard
• Udoo

Read and/or write to/from the SD card of another?
Store and retrieve data from an external storage without conflicts?

 

Yes. What exactly would stop them from being able to do that?

 

Look Papabravo, I'm sorry for taking up your time, I'm too below you, you don't have to answer any more questions from me.

 

Look Papabravo, I'm sorry for taking up your time, I'm too below you, you don't have to answer any more questions from me.

I don't understand why you would take that tone. I've tried to answer your questions in the most encouraging and positive way. In order to accomplish your goals you need to start your search for the components that you need. You can certainly hack them in any way you deem appropriate. If it can be designed from scratch it can be built with predesigned modules.

 

It's OK, I shouldn't expect you to understand someone like me. I don't want your condescending answers.
"Yes. What exactly would stop them from being able to do that?"

 

It's OK, I shouldn't expect you to understand someone like me. I don't want your condescending answers.
"Yes. What exactly would stop them from being able to do that?"

I don't need to understand you. That is for someone with a different set of credentials than the ones I have. You ask a question in such a way as to assume the answer. I want to know if you have specific information or reasons to believe that the tasks you described cannot be accomplished. Maybe it is because you looked and did not see an example of what you want. Maybe you think the task is impossible and seek some confirmation. I'm trying to tell you there is no a priori reason I can think of that those tasks would be impossible either as a design from scratch or a hack with existing boards. Note I never said it would be easy -- I just said it would be possible.

 

You don't even hear yourself, I should charge you like a pusher cause you are probably real high on yourself, I excell in electromechanical thinking from a very young age. I am self taught and so I picked up some bad habits that make the initial understanding difficult. I am an out of the box problem solver.

Your answers were designed to sound like you were helping me but were meant to not inform me that way you'll feel superior, probably subconscious. You gave me the kind of answers one give to a peers who just need to be reminded of something that they knew but had a lapse in memory. Not for someone who said that they had a learning disability and don't know Single Board Computers and need simplified answers to get up to speed.

I don't need you, I wanted help to get past the bump quicker, I have already learned a lot in a day, you guys need to reread your post before you submit and ask yourself if your answer is tainted with attitude. Your answers were quick without empathy and understanding, for your own edification.

You people forget when you were at a beginning and asked the dumb question or make the simple mistake, questions that you look back on and thought, why did I ask such an easy question or make such a stupid, mistake. In the beginning is the time to do those things and teachers should expect it and be understanding and give simple answers. Don't give condescending statements like, "What exactly would stop them from being able to do that?", the "Yes" was very good all by itself.

I see that I cannot delete this account so just ignor this post.

 

We are the ones trying to help you for no other reason than we like to do that.
The remarks being made are not condescending as you interpret them.
That's how we converse on this forum, but if you want to wallow in self pity that no one will help you in the exact manner you expect then good luck to you.