[HH] BeagleBone Black Has Arrived

[Tom Metro]

"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