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BeagleBone is the low-cost, high-expansion hardware-hacker focused BeagleBoard

Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) Posts: 1,720
edited 2011-11-03 09:17 in General Discussion
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 is small even by BeagleBoard standards and with the high-performance ARM capabilities you expect from a BeagleBoard, the BeagleBone brings full-featured Linux to places it has never gone before.

http://beagleboard.org/bone

suggested retail price is $89.
Industry standard 3.3V I/Os on the expansion headers with easy-to-use 0.1" spacing
Because it doesn't have a display interface of its own, it needs an external control terminal either over USB or over the network.
What could you do with this hooked to a Propeller Chip?

:)

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2011-10-31 20:17
    BeagleBoards are great SBCs, but I am trying to buy a PandaBoard as it includes Wifi and Bluetooth - see www.pandaboard.org
    The PandaBoard seems to be made by the same organization as the BeagleBoard (the documents have the same street address).

    Still, a BeagleBoard can use a USB wifi to provide that aspect - definitely adding a boost of utility to a Propeller that is doing other things.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-10-31 20:28
    Loopy,
    I'm using IGEP boards from ISEE (Google it) in some projects. They come with WIFI, Bluetooth, USB, real serial, all on board.
    Price is comparable and they have a temp spec down to -40C which is required for my projects.
  • rod1963rod1963 Posts: 752
    edited 2011-10-31 22:29
    They are so going to own the digital media controller market with $5 monster chips like this.

    Prop wise, I'd use the Props as I/O slaves and make the Sitara/Boneboard the master.
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2011-11-01 06:07
    Shipped with 2GB microSD card ! Wow ! How can I pass it by? :)
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2011-11-01 06:29
    Can't stand microSD.. I always go for boards which support proper-sized SD cards. There's a micro-SD in one of my phones but it has been there from when I got it and won't ever be removed. Unless microSD is just part of the fixed hardware I can't stand it. They're just too tiny. And I can't use my SD cards.

    -Tor
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2011-11-01 16:09
    That's pretty sweet. I think you would use the propeller for time dependant stuff like motor control and sensors. That board for high level stuff like image processing or route planning.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-11-02 01:37
    Yep, a perfect combination. At the price it becomes a much nicer way to run huge wadges of C code than tieing up all the pins of your Prop with external RAM solutions that are dog slow anyway.
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2011-11-03 09:17
    Write-up by Chibots guru

    http://buildsmartrobots.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ti-s-latest-robot-controller-beaglebone-makes-it-easy-to-build-sm
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