"BeagleBone Black" is the latest iteration of TI's BeagleBone open hardware single board computer. Lots of chatter about it since its release a few weeks ago. It outperform the Raspberry Pi, and is priced at $45, just $10 more.
I believe we'll be seeing one of these demoed at the next BLU meeting happening next week. BeagleBone Black Has Arrived http://blog.makezine.com/2013/04/22/beaglebone-black-has-arrived/ ...it has the same footprint and similar layout as the original BeagleBone. However, there are a lot of new features and specs that make this more than just a slight revision: -The processor gets a bump up to 1GHz, compared to the original's 720MHz. -RAM is doubled to 512MB. -The BeagleBone Black can be connected directly to a monitor through the on-board MicroHDMI port. -They've added 2GB of on-board flash memory, which will be preloaded with the Ångström distribution of Linux. This is in addition to the MicroSD slot, which you can still boot from, if you wish. -The software gets a big upgrade, too. The provided Ångström disk image is now on Linux Kernel 3.8. They've also made many improvements to BoneScript, their node.js library for physical computing on embedded Linux. The author of the above has a $10 ebook on the BeagleBone: Getting Started with BeagleBone Linux-Powered Electronic Projects With Python and JavaScript http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028116.do More BeagleBone Black details at: http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black where it says you can also run Ubuntu and Android on the board. Also says it has: -3D graphics accelerator -NEON floating-point accelerator -USB host port; USB client port -Ethernet It has two 46 pin headers, so presumably more I/O than a Pi, and I'm assuming there are "shields" designed to plug into these headers. These connectors aren't mentioned as new, so I assume they are carried over from the older models. And even more hardware details here: http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBoneBlack#BeagleBone_Black_Description -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list Hardwarehacking@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
