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BeagleBoard®
Meet the Beagles: Open Source Computing
Get your hands in technology's guts and control your development destiny with these credit-card sized, low-power, open-hardware computers.
The BeagleBone® boards are low-cost, fan-less single-board computers based on low-power Texas Instruments processors featuring the ARM Cortex-A core with all of the expandability of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise. BeagleBoard.org® provides an open source development platform for the creation of high-performance embedded designs.
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BeaglePlay®
BeaglePlay® is a user-friendly, open-source single board computer that simplifies adding sensors, actuators, and connectivity to an embedded system. Features include a 64-bit quad-core processor, WiFi, Gigabit Ethernet, sub-GHz wireless, and single-pair Ethernet with power-over-data-line. With compatibility with 1,000s of add-ons and a customized Debian Linux image, BeaglePlay® is ideal for human-machine interface designs. Affordable and easy to use, BeaglePlay® offers a positive development experience.
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BeagleConnect® Freedom is an open-hardware IoT platform built with the TI CC1352P7 microcontroller and compatible with over 1,000 mikroBUS add-ons. Software support with the Zephyr RTOS enables custom solutions. For comprehensive IoT development, the platform includes various sensors, connectivity options, and JTAG connections.
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BeagleBone® AI-64 brings a complete AI and Machine Learning System to developers with the convenience and expandability of the BeagleBone® platform and the peripherals on board to get started right away learning and building applications. Leveraging over a decade of success in open hardware single board Linux computers, the BeagleBone® AI-64 puts a massive amount of computing power in an easy to use platform to build everything from autonomous robots to building automation.
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The BeagleBone® Blue is a robotics controller built around the BeagleBone® open hardware computer. It is Linux enabled and is community supported and fully open source, offering flexible networking capabilities and peripheral interfaces to build mobile robots quickly and affordably.
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PocketBeagle® is an ultra-tiny-yet-complete open-source USB-key-fob computer. PocketBeagle® features an incredible low cost, slick design and simple usage, making PocketBeagle® the ideal development board for beginners and professionals alike.
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The element14 BeagleBone® Black Industrial is a low cost, high-expansion focused BeagleBoard® using a low cost industrial temperature grade Sitara™ AM3358 ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor from Texas Instruments. BeagleBone® Industrial ships with the Debian Linux distribution preinstalled on the onboard FLASH, ready to start evaluation and development.
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BeagleBone® Black is the most popular development board for developers and the avid hobbyist. It is a lower cost, high expansion focused BeagleBoard® using a low cost Sitara AM3358BZCZ100 Cortex A8 ARM processor from Texas Instruments. The board boots Linux in under 10sec and the user can get started on development in less than 5min with just a single USB cable.
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BeagleBone® Kits, Bundles & Accessories
Explore the widest range of BeagleBone® starter kits, bundles and accessories from power supplier, cables, uSD cards to industrial enclousures.
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| PocketBeagle® | BeagleBone® Black | BeagleBone® Black Industrial | BeagleBone® Blue | BeagleBone® AI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Processor | AM3358 | AM3358 | AM3358 | AM3358 | AM5729 |
| Arm Cortex-A8 | Arm Cortex-A8 | Arm Cortex-A8 | Arm Cortex-A8 | 2x Arm Cortex-A15 | |
| Maximum Processor Speed | 1GHz | 1GHz | 1GHz | 1GHz | 1.5GHz |
| Co-processors | 2x200-MHz PRUs, Arm Cortex-M3, SGX PowerVR | 2x200-MHz PRUs, Arm Cortex-M3, SGX PowerVR | 2x200-MHz PRUs, Arm Cortex-M3, SGX PowerVR | 2x200-MHz PRUs, Arm Cortex-M3, SGX PowerVR | 2x C66x, 4x EVE, 4xPRU, 4xArm Cortex-M4, 2x SGX Power VR |
| Analog Pins | 2 (3.3V), 6 (1.8V) | 7 (1.8V) | 7 (1.8V) | 4 (1.8V) | 7 (4-wire touchscreen capable) |
| Digital Pins | 44 (3.3V) | 65 (3.3V) | 65 (3.3V) | 24 (3.3V) | 72 (including 7 analog pins which are digital capable) |
| Memory | 512MB DDR3 (800MHz x 16), microSD card slot | 512MB DDR3 (800MHz x 16), 4GB on-board storage using eMMC, microSD card slot | 512MB DDR3 (800MHz x 16), 4GB on-board storage using eMMC, microSD card slot | 512MB DDR3 (800MHz x 16), 4GB on-board storage using eMMC, microSD card slot | 1GB DDR3, 16GB on-board storage using eMMC, microSD card slot |
| USB | USB 2.0 480Mbps Host/Client Port, USB 2.0 on expansion header | USB 2.0 480Mbps Host/Client Port, USB 2.0 Host Port | USB 2.0 480Mbps Host/Client Port, USB 2.0 Host Port | USB 2.0 480Mbps Host/Client Port, USB 2.0 Host Port | USB 2.0 480Mbps Host/Client Port, USB 2.0 Host Port |
| Network | add-ons | 10/100 Ethernet | 10/100 Ethernet | WiFi, Bluetooth 4.1, BLE | Dual band WiFi, Bluetooth 4.2 |
| Video | SPI displays | microHDMI, cape add-ons | microHDMI, cape add-ons | SPI displays | microHDMI, cape add-ons |
| Audio | add-ons | microHDMI, cape add-ons | microHDMI, cape add-ons | add-ons, Bluetooth | add-ons, Bluetooth |
| Supported Expansion Interfaces | 3x UART, 4x PWM, 2x SPI, 2x I2C, 8x A/D converter, 2x CAN bus (w/o PHY), 2x quadrature encoder, USB | 4x UART, 12x PWM/Timers, 2x SPI, 2x I2C, 7x A/D converter, 2x CAN bus (w/o PHY), LCD, 3x quadrature encoder, SD/MMC, GPMC | 4x UART, 12x PWM/Timers, 2x SPI, 2x I2C, 7x A/D converter, 2x CAN bus (w/o PHY), LCD, 3x quadrature encoder, SD/MMC, GPMC | 4x UART, 2-cell LiPo, 2x SPI, I2C, 4x A/D converter, CAN bus (w/ PHY), 8x 6V servo motor, 4x DC motor, 4x quadrature encoder | 4x UART, 16-bit LCD interface, 2x I2C, 2x SPI, PWM, Timer, A/D, CAN, Encoder, GPMC etc. |
| On-board Sensors | - | - | - | 10 degree of freedom IMU (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, thermometer), barometer/thermometer | - |
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