Beagleboards are low-cost, fan-less single-board computers based on low-power Texas Instruments processors featuring the ARM Cortex-A series core with all of the expandability of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise.
About Beagleboard
The BeagleBoard.org Foundation is a US-based non-profit corporation existing to provide education in and promotion of the design and use of open-source software and hardware in embedded computing. BeagleBoard.org provides a forum for the owners and developers of open-source software and hardware to exchange ideas, knowledge and experience.
BeagleBone Black
The open-hardware computer BeagleBone Black is the newest member of the BeagleBoard family and is a high-expansion focused BeagleBoard using a Sitara AM335x Cortex A8 ARM processor from Texas Instruments.
On board HDMI to connect directly to TVs and monitors
Sitara AM335x 1GHz Processor
Fast SDRAM memory 512MB DDR3L
2GB eMMC onboard microSD
PMIC regulator and one additional LDO
Power - miniUSB, USB or DC Jack
5VDC External via expansion header
Indicators - Power,2 x Ethernet, 4 User Controllable LEDs
HS USB 2.0 Client Port and HS USB 2.0 Host Port
Serial Port via 6 pin header, Ethernet RJ45, and SD/MMC Connector(microSD)
92-pin header cape compatible
Board size: 3.4 x 2.1 inches
BeagleBone White
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 uses a Texas Instruments AM3358 ARM Cortex-A8-based microprocessor + 3D graphics acceleration with SGX.
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.
Board size: 3.4 x 2.1 inches
Shipped with 4GB microSD card with the Angstrom Distribution 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 0.1in 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
Forums
The DesignSpark forums are a great place to discuss projects, tools and coding with other Beaglebone users
Beaglebone on the Web
- + BeagleBigTrak - Controlling a BigTrak using a Beaglebone over WiFi
- + BeagleBoard 101 - What's BeagleBone all about?
- + BeagleBone SNES - Turn your Beaglebone into a Super Nintendo Entertainment System