michaelbgwilliam:
It's April 2015 and issues with the Yún still don't seem to be resolved.I can program it to do some things but when the program begins to get complex it all collapses.
Once I reset, reboot and reconfigure it will accepts some simple routines until it collapses again.
I'm going back to my Raspberry Pi 2.
@michaelbgwilliam,
it appears yourself and others have a misunderstanding of the architecture. The Arduino Yún is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega32u4 and the Atheros AR9331. So, it is two chips - two separate chips that communicate over a serial port. The Atmel ATmega32u4 has:
– 16/32K Bytes of In-System Self-Programmable Flash (ATmega16U4/ATmega32U4)
– 1.25/2.5K Bytes Internal SRAM (ATmega16U4/ATmega32U4)
– 512Bytes/1K Bytes Internal EEPROM (ATmega16U4/ATmega32U4)
So putting a banana in a tailpipe seems like a great movie gag, but it hardly ever works. Piping a large amount of data to the Atmel seems silly too, since the purpose of the IO pins on the Atmel is to gather data not push it out. In addition, the pipe is about 200kbps - not very fast. In addition, there is NO buffer on the Atmel side. So jamming it with data only it up while it tries to keep up, is also silly because the best you might get is lock down for a long period of time.
In summation, I don't know the extent of your project, so whether the Arduino Yun is useful is hard to say. But to conclude the Raspberry Pi might be the system for you. I own two, and I use them when the Yun cannot do the job.
Best of Luck,
Jesse