BeagleBone
The BeagleBone
is the low-cost, high-expansion hardware-hacker focused BeagleBoard.
It is a bare-bones BeagleBoard that acts as a USB or Ethernet connected
expansion companion for your current BeagleBoard and BeagleBoard-xM or
works stand-alone. The BeagleBone is small even by BeagleBoard
standards and with the high-performance ARM capabilities you expect
from a BeagleBoard, the BeagleBone brings full-featured Linux to places
it has never gone before.
What is the BeagleBoard Bone capable of doing?
At over 1.5 billion Dhrystone operations per second and vector
floating point arithmetic operations, the BeagleBone is capable of not
just interfacing to all of your robotics motor drivers, location or
pressure sensors and 2D or 3D cameras, but also running OpenCV, OpenNI
and other image collection and analysis software to recognize the
objects around your robot and the gestures you might make to control it.
Through HDMI, VGA or LCD expansion boards, it is capable of decoding
and displaying mutliple video formats utilizing a completely open
source software stack and synchronizing playback over Ethernet or USB
with other BeagleBoards to create massive video walls. If what you are
into is building 3D printers, then the BeagleBone has the extensive
PWM capabilities, the on-chip Ethernet and the 3D rendering and
manipulation capabilities all help you eliminate both your underpowered
microcontroller-based controller board as well as that PC from your
basement.
Key Features:
- Shipped with 2GB microSD card with the Angstrom Distribution (validation and demonstration image) with node.js and Cloud9 IDE
- Single cable development environment with built-in FTDI-based
serial/JTAG and on-board hub to give the same cable simultaneous access
to a USB device port on the target processor
- Industry standard 3.3V I/Os on the expansion headers with easy-to-use 0.1" spacing
- On-chip Ethernet, not off of USB
- Easier to clone thanks to larger pitch on BGA devices (0.8mm vs.
0.4mm), no package-on-package memories, standard DDR2 vs. LPDDR,
integrated USB PHYs and more.
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 ...
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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
- 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”
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