Hi JMR & MON2
Standard cables would make life so much easier. I know of a couple of places that sell the cable, but I can't easily buy them with university money. Regulations require that for normal purchases I have to use local vendors that can give official (no-tax) receipts. To buy cables from overseas I would have to put together an official purchase request, get approval from all concerned, including the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, then it would have to go for bidding, etc. I am more likely to die of old age before anything would ever get delivered, not to mention the price would be several times the original price.
I was planning on seeing if we could get a local shop to make them. A normal usb cable would be so much easier to buy and use, plus I wouldn't have to have a set of cables that can only be used with one board.
Mon2 , Thanks for the information about your plans. I don't think I am the best person for beta-testing, as I was planning on just using the boards so students can do projects for technical writing classes to prepare them for future studies and doing their senior projects. I would just suggest that you look at the Yun and the Raspberry Pi and make the Galileo as easy to set up, use and reconfigure. I want my students to spend their time using the board, learning how to program and interface with other devices, instead of having to spend a lot of time just trying to make it work. I also want a board that is not easily damaged and can be reset to the original settings after each class. I would prefer that it boot from a SD card so I can have sets of cards with different Operating Systems and configurations depending on what we want to do. I know space is at a premium, but if you could reduce the clutter, that would also be great. Students have to transport the boards, so having little bits of wire, like the battery clip, hanging off, makes life difficult. I was looking for a good design of a case that I could get locally made so could have the battery clip and wifi antenna connected, but would much prefer a place for a clip and built in wifi, with an on-board connector for a standard antenna. May not be possible, but would be nice.
Anyway
Best Wishes
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