What is BeagleBone Black?
BeagleBone Black is a low-cost, community-supported development platform for developers and hobbyists. Boot Linux in under 10 seconds and get started on development in less than 5 minutes with just a single USB cable.There is another version of BeagleBone Black that is BeagleBone Black Wireless & SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green Wireless.
What is BeagleBone Black Wireless?
Replacing the 10/100 Ethernet port with onboard 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz WiFi and Bluetooth, the popular open source BeagleBone Black computer now comes with built-in wireless networking capability. Leveraging a partnership with Octavo Systems and designed in CadSoft Eagle, BeagleBone Black Wireless is the easiest to use and modify credit-card sized IoT Linux computer available.
- 512MB DDR3 RAM
4GB 8-bit eMMC on-board flash storage
3D graphics accelerator
NEON floating-point accelerator
2x PRU 32-bit microcontrollers - Connectivity
USB client for power & communications
USB host
802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.1 plus BLE
HDMI
2x 46 pin headers - Software Compatibility
Debian with Cloud9 IDE on Node.js w/ BoneScript library
Third party support for Android and Ubuntu
plus much more
What is SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green Wireless?
SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green Wireless (BBGW) is a joint effort by BeagleBoard.org and Seeed Studio. It is based on the open-source hardware design of BeagleBone Black and developed into this differentiated version. SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green Wireless has included a high-performance flexible WiFi/Bluetooth interface and two Grove connectors, making it easier to connect to the large family of Grove sensors. The on-board HDMI and Ethernet are removed to make room for these wireless features and Grove connectors.
- 512MB DDR3 RAM
4GB 8-bit eMMC on-board flash storage
3D graphics accelerator
NEON floating-point accelerator
2x PRU 32-bit microcontrollers - Connectivity
USB client for power & communications
USB host with 4-port hub
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz
Bluetooth 4.1 with BLE
2x 46 pin headers
2x Grove connectors (I2C and UART) - Software Compatibility
Debian
Android
Ubuntu
Cloud9 IDE on Node.js w/ BoneScript library
plus much more