[HH] BeagleBone Black Has Arrived

[Kurt Keville]

Indeed, we are having a BBB celebration next week at http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2013-may ... we might even have the meeting text corrected by then...

On May 6, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Tom Metro wrote:

> "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
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