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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.
Experiment with Linux, Android and Ubuntu and jump-start your development in five minutes...
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BeagleBone® AI - New
Fast Track for Embedded Machine Learning
BeagleBone® AI is a high-end Single Board Computer aimed at developers interested in implementing machine-learning and computer vision with simplicity. BeagleBone® AI includes a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 running at 1.5 GHz, 16GB on-board eMMC flash, a SuperSpeed USB Type-C interface, Gigabit Ethernet and dual band wireless connectivity. BeagleBone® AI simplify the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in daily industrial, commercial and home applications via the TI C66x digital-signal-processor (DSP) cores, two dual-core ARM Cortex-M4 co-processors for real-time control, two dual-core Programmable Real-Time Unit (PRU) subsystems and four Embedded Vision Engines(EVEs) supported through an optimized TIDL machine learning OpenCL API with pre-installed tools. Packaged similarly to BeagleBone® Black and compatible with many BeagleBone® Cape add-on boards
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BeagleBone® Blue
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.
PocketBeagle®
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.
BeagleBone® Black Wireless
The BeagleBone® Black Wireless replaces the 10/100 Ethernet port with onboard 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. This is a popular open source BeagleBone® Black computer with built-in wireless networking capability. Leveraging a partnership with Octavo Systems. BeagleBone® Black Wireless is the easiest to use and modify credit-card sized IoT Linux computer available. The BeagleBoard® Compatible Octavo SiP has a Texas Instruments TPS65217C PMIC, Sitara AM335x MPU and TL5209 LDO.
BeagleBone® Industrial
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.
BeagleBone® Black
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.
BeagleBone® Capes
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® Black Wireless | BeagleBone® Blue | BeagleBone® AI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Processor | AM3358 | AM3358 | AM3358 | AM3358 | AM3358 | AM5729 |
| Arm Cortex-A8 | Arm Cortex-A8 | Arm Cortex-A8 | Arm Cortex-A8 | Arm Cortex-A8 | 2x Arm Cortex-A15 | |
| Maximum Processor Speed | 1GHz | 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 | 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) | 7 (1.8V) | 4 (1.8V) | 7 (4-wire touchscreen capable) |
| Digital Pins | 44 (3.3V) | 65 (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 | 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 | 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 | WiFi, Bluetooth 4.1, BLE | Dual band WiFi, Bluetooth 4.2 |
| Video | SPI displays | microHDMI, cape add-ons | 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 | 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, 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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