THE NEW Linux-based BeagleBone Green development board is now available from Mouser Electronics.
The BeagleBone Green from BeagleBoard.org and Seeed Studio is an update on the popular BeagleBone Black. The board, like the Black, runs the AM335x 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor from Texas Instruments.
However, the BeagleBone Green has replaced the Black’s HDMI connector and chip, with Seeed Studio’s plug-and-play Grove connectors, allowing developers and designers to capitalise on Seeed’s modular Grove system and the board’s general purpose I/O (GPIO) expansion capabilities.
BeagleBone Green provides 512MBytes of DDR3 RAM, 4GBytes of eMMC flash storage, microSD slot, and two PRU 32-bit microcontrollers, plus a 3D graphics accelerator and NEON floating-point for enhanced multimedia and user experience.
The board also includes 65 possible digital I/Os from the dual 46-pin headers, 10/100 Ethernet, USB client for power and communications, and a USB host. Complementing the BeagleBone Green, the Grove Starter Kit for BeagleBone Green contains 10 Grove modules and three step-by-step guides to help makers quickly build projects with the BeagleBone Green. The BeagleBone Green also supports the same expansion “capes” as the BeagleBone Black.
The BeagleBone Green ships with Linux and BeagleBoard’s Cloud9 integrated development environment (IDE) on the eMMC, and also supports Debian, Ubuntu, and many other distributions of Linux; Android; and other open-source operating systems.