A couple of weeks ago while we were getting our geek on at Design West, we were fortunate enough to meet and chat with a couple of the guys from CircuitCo – makers of the BeagleBone platform. They gave us a BeagleBone Black and a Bacon Cape(!) to check out and hack around with. We’ll post some of our own BeagleBone video here on the blog soon, but for now you can take a minute to check out the official video above. It is just a quick video tour of the board, and a good overview of the features it has. If you’re not familiar with it yet, the BeagleBone platform is going to be along the same lines as the Raspberry Pi and pcDuino, but with its own unique features and specs.
Quick overview and specs:
- Processor: AM335x 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8
- 3D graphics accelerator
- NEON floating-point accelerator
- 2x PRU 32-bit microcontrollers
- Runs Linux, Android, Ubuntu, Cloud9 IDE on Node.js w/ BoneScript library, and much more
- Connectivity:
- USB client for power & debug
- USB host
- Ethernet
- HDMI
- 2x 46 pin headers
The next video here is from Design West, and it’s a quick demo of the Bacon Cape add-on for the BeagleBone. I love the name, and I take it that the designers are well aware that bacon makes everything better…
(via BeagleBoard)
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