BeagleBone Green

[Rui Paulo]

On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 16:37 -0500, Jim Thompson wrote:
> 
> > On Sep 28, 2015, at 2:21 PM, George Rosamond <
> > george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> > 
> > At MakerFaire NYC this weekend, I found out that the BeagleBone
> > Green
> > was released.  Cheaper than the Black, the only difference I saw
> > was
> > 'grooves' for four-pin connections to an array of sensors they are
> > offering, eg, environmental, GPS, etc
> > 
> > It wasn't available at the event, but it looks like the specs (and
> > I
> > think the chipset) are the same, if not identical.
> > 
> > Anyone have one and build successfully?
> > 
> > g
> 
> 
> Differences between the Beaglebone Green and Beaglebone Black:
> 
> 2x Grove connectors on Beaglebone Green (as you outlined) 
> 
> Beaglebone Green eliminates microSD, HDMI and 5VDC barrel, and this
> is what drives the $16 (list) price reduction.
> 
> Power on Beaglebone Green is only via micro USB (Beaglebone Black
> uses mini USB or separate 5VDC barrel)
> 
> Otherwise, specs and chipset are, (as you surmised) identical.

It just makes it much more complicated to boot FreeBSD with the lack of
microSD.  Probably not that attractive to FreeBSD users.

-- 
Rui Paulo