BeagleBone® Introduction
Introduction
BeagleBone®s are relatively a late comer in the microcontroller world, but the high performance and lower power consumption make it become one of the three popular platforms in the open-hardware world. Beagles mean big functionality in small packages because these little PCs can be used for all kinds of applications you've been tinkering with... and can handle many of the same tasks as your desktop PC. Similar to Arduino and Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone® boards are used by artists, designers and hobbyists to realize their projects.
BeagleBone® boards are wonderful boards, but people on planet Seeed are not satisfied with the current BeagleBone® and want to make some differences. Just as what we have done with Seeeduino, we spoke to BeagleBone.org about our thoughts and finally got the chance to create a whole new board together with them, this is how we created Seeed Studio's own BeagleBone®, the BeagleBone® Green(Short as BBG).
BeagleBone® Green is derived from BeagleBone® Black(Short as BBB), if you ever know about BBB , you would know that BBB is like the star board in the beagleboard family, it inherits the tiny size of BeagleBone® and adds many good features while the price is much lower. When we were designing BBG, we decided to keep almost all the good features of BBB such as the tiny size, abundant interface and strong expansibility, while at the same time replaced the HDMI interface with 2 Seeed grove connector, to make it compatible with the large family of grove sensers.
Not lone afte that, we released another BeagleBone® named BeagleBone® Green Wireless(Short as BBGW), In addition to grove connectors, BBGW has included a high-performance flexible WiFi/Bluetooth interface, makes it become the first WiFi/Bluetooth board of the BeagleBone® family.
The Idea of Open Source
BeagleBone® embraces the open-source philosophy, allowing users to access, modify, and share both hardware and software designs. This openness encourages innovation, collaboration, and transparency, fostering a community where knowledge and resources are freely exchanged. By utilizing open-source principles, BeagleBone® ensures that anyone can contribute to its development and improvement, creating a rich ecosystem of projects, tutorials, and applications.
Spec Differences About the Series
The BeagleBone® series includes several models, each with unique specifications to cater to different needs:
BeagleBone Black: The most popular model, featuring a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, 512MB of DDR3 RAM, and 4GB of eMMC flash storage. It offers extensive connectivity options, including Ethernet, USB, and HDMI.
BeagleBone Blue: Designed specifically for robotics, it includes onboard IMU sensors, servo motor outputs, and battery management, making it ideal for autonomous vehicle projects.
BeagleBone Green: A collaboration with Seeed Studio, this model is similar to the BeagleBone Black but replaces the HDMI port with two Grove connectors for easy sensor integration.
Product
BeagleBone® Blue
SeeedStudio BeagleBone® Green
BeagleBone® Green Wireless
SeeedStudio BeagleBone® Green Gateway
BeagleBone® Case
Extension Board
| Grove Base Cape for BeagleBone® v2 | Motor Bridge Cape v1.0 | Skeleton box for BeagleBone® |
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| The cape provides 12 easy-to-use Grove connectors to do plug-and-play with the big family of Grove modules. The connectors include 2x UART, 2x ADC, 4x Digital I/O and 4x I2C that interface to the pins on your BeagleBone® board, offering almost everything you need. | The Motor Bridge Cape features bi-directional motor control using two TB6612FNG integrated dual H-bridge, so it can control two stepper motors or four brushed DC motors with 6 ~15V DC ower and about 1A current draw per motor. | This enclosure is constructed from military grade aluminum and hardwearing acrylic, Providing the ultimate protection from physical and corrosion! The skeleton box allows clearance for any standard Arduino, and the enclosures are stackable in all three dimensions, allowing for limitless expansion possibilities. |
| BeagleBone® Green HDMI Cape | Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green LCD Cape with Resistive Touch |
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| BeagleBone® Green HDMI Cape is a general integrated HDMI connector for expanding your BeagleBone® to a rich variety of peripherals such as computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device. | Green LCD Cape with Resistive Touch is designed for SeeedStudio Beagle bone® Green or Beagle bone Black with a compact 5-inch LCD which is smaller than a 7-inch one but provides a resolution of 800x480 using a layer of 4-wired resistive touchscreen for user interactions. |
Kit with Courses
| Grove Starter Kit for BeagleBone® Green | BeagleBone Green and Grove IoT Starter Kit Powered by AWS |
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| Grove Starter Kit for BeagleBone® Green is an entry-level kit for beginners, which can help you explore BBG and create innovative projects. It's a best choice for novice to develop some cool projects and build prototype built in BBG. | BeagleBone Green (BBG) is a joint effort by BeagleBoard.org and Seeed Studio. It is based on the open-source hardware design of BeagleBone Black and has added two Grove connectors. The kit contains the new BBG, 10 Grove modules as well as step-by-step tutorials to hook them up quickly. |
Application
BeagleBone® Solutions
The BeagleBone® is a versatile platform capable of running a full Linux OS while also retaining real-time capability. Designed with industrial use in mind, and documentation designed for entry-level developers, the BeagleBone® has numerous I/O and protocol support while being developer friendly.
Seeed's BeagleBone® Green and BeagleBone® Green Wireless are part of the BeagleBone® family and are ready to be customized, manufactured, and deployed now.
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