<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Indeed, we are having a BBB celebration next week at <a href="http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2013-may">http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2013-may</a> ... we might even have the meeting text corrected by then...</div><br><div><div>On May 6, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Tom Metro wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>"BeagleBone Black" is the latest iteration of TI's BeagleBone open<br>hardware single board computer. Lots of chatter about it since its<br>release a few weeks ago. It outperform the Raspberry Pi, and is priced<br>at $45, just $10 more.<br><br>I believe we'll be seeing one of these demoed at the next BLU meeting<br>happening next week.<br><br><br>BeagleBone Black Has Arrived<br><a href="http://blog.makezine.com/2013/04/22/beaglebone-black-has-arrived/">http://blog.makezine.com/2013/04/22/beaglebone-black-has-arrived/</a><br><br> ...it has the same footprint and similar layout as the original<br> BeagleBone. However, there are a lot of new features and specs that<br> make this more than just a slight revision:<br><br> -The processor gets a bump up to 1GHz, compared to the original's<br> 720MHz.<br> -RAM is doubled to 512MB.<br> -The BeagleBone Black can be connected directly to a monitor through<br> the on-board MicroHDMI port.<br> -They've added 2GB of on-board flash memory, which will be preloaded<br> with the Ångström distribution of Linux. This is in addition to the<br> MicroSD slot, which you can still boot from, if you wish.<br> -The software gets a big upgrade, too. The provided Ångström disk<br> image is now on Linux Kernel 3.8. They've also made many improvements<br> to BoneScript, their node.js library for physical computing on<br> embedded Linux.<br><br><br>The author of the above has a $10 ebook on the BeagleBone:<br><br>Getting Started with BeagleBone<br>Linux-Powered Electronic Projects With Python and JavaScript<br>http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028116.do<br><br><br>More BeagleBone Black details at:<br>http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black<br><br>where it says you can also run Ubuntu and Android on the board. Also<br>says it has:<br><br> -3D graphics accelerator<br> -NEON floating-point accelerator<br> -USB host port; USB client port<br> -Ethernet<br><br>It has two 46 pin headers, so presumably more I/O than a Pi, and I'm<br>assuming there are "shields" designed to plug into these headers. These<br>connectors aren't mentioned as new, so I assume they are carried over<br>from the older models.<br><br>And even more hardware details here:<br>http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBoneBlack#BeagleBone_Black_Description<br><br> -Tom<br>_______________________________________________<br>Hardwarehacking mailing list<br>Hardwarehacking@blu.org<br>http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>