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Introduction
The BeagleBone delivers the bare bones with a very affordable price and the greatest access to interface signals for sensors and controls, while eliminating the need for additional equipment with a single cable development environment.
Specifications
700-MHz superscalar ARM Cortex™-A8
256-MB DDR2 RAM
1-port USB 2.0 host
Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
microSD slot and 2-GB microSD card with validation and demonstration image from the Angstrom Distribution
USB 2.0 flexible device port with ability to supply power
On-board USB-to-serial/JTAG over shared USB device port
3.3-V 2× 46-pin peripheral with multiplexed LCD signals and battery-control expansion headers
Board size: 3.4” × 2.1”
Applications
3D printers and industrial robotics
Autonomous robots and flying drones
Web servers and Internet-enabled kiosks
Home media centers and automation
In-vehicle entertainment and monitoring
Thin clients and digital signage
Development with Ubuntu, Android™, Open Embedded, Windows® Embedded, QNX, Symbian, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and more ..
Great to hear. Given that a certain tasty Linux board with HDMI is the hot topic this week, do you know if there will be a cape featuring that capability?
Just been to see the TI open source hardware stand at Embedded World in Nuremberg - they were doing some really cool stuff with the Beaglebone and had some interesting new capes for it that they had just had prototyped
I cant wait now a budjet system that we can play with back to the old spekky days only a small amount of memory not t he gigs that vindows needs ......... wonder what i do with it .... going to have some fun going to get a nasty plastic box and rubber keyboard and make a zx spectrum 128 with sd card
Exciting times, don't think ipad/wii/sat nav etc., new technologies and advances in micochip engineering means that quite literally imagining is creating, as vertually anything is now possible.... or soon will be!!
I really reall want to put a collar around Beaglebones as right now i can think of quite a few tricks i'm sure i could get him to do, here boy!!
Top Comments
it's perfect!!!
Just been to see the TI open source hardware stand at Embedded World in Nuremberg - they were doing some really cool stuff with the Beaglebone and had some interesting new capes for it that they had just…
Didn't see any capes featuring HDMI, but that definitely sounds like a good idea. The only thing I would wonder about is whether the breakout pins would be able to carry that data load quick enough to…