BeagleBone Green
Uffe Jakobsen
uffe at uffe.org
Tue Sep 29 08:42:21 UTC 2015
On 2015-09-29 04:17, Rui Paulo wrote:
> 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.
>
As far as I can see the BeagleBone Green still has microSD on its
backside. Only MicroHDMI have been removed.
http://beagleboard.org/green
Quote: (http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/Beaglebone_green)
BeagleBone Green (BBG) is based on the classical open-source hardware
design of BeagleBone Black (BBB) and added two Grove connectors.
It has removed the HDMI port on the BBB and also updated the 5V barrel
to Micro USB host. It is a low-cost, community-supported development
platform for developers and hobbyists.
/Uffe
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