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February 23, 2012 AT 6:21 pm

IN STOCK – Beagle Bone + Extras [Rev. A5]

IN STOCK – Beagle Bone + Extras [Rev. A5]. New from the fine people who have brought us the Beagle Board, we now have a smaller, lighter, but powerful single board linux computer, Beagle Bone! We like this move to a more compact and integrated SBC. For example, there is onboard Ethernet and USB host, as well as a USB client interface (a FTDI chip for shell access). It even comes preloaded with Angstrom Linux on the 4 GB microSD card!

Package includes:

Fully assembled and tested BeagleBone A5
Mini-B USB cable
4 GB microSD card with preloaded Angstrom Linux
MicroSD to SD card adapter

We also suggest getting a 5V/2A DC power adapter and our Proto Cape! If you’re starting out with Beagle Bone and want a pack of everything you’ll need, check out our custom Beagle Bone Starter Pack!

At over 1.5 billion Dhrystone operations per second and vector floating point arithmetic operations, the BeagleBone is capable of not just interfacing to all of your robotics motor drivers, location or pressure sensors and 2D or 3D cameras, but also running OpenCV, OpenNI and other image collection and analysis software to recognize the objects around your robot and the gestures you might make to control it. Through HDMI, VGA or LCD expansion boards, it is capable of decoding and displaying multiple video formats utilizing a completely open source software stack and synchronizing playback over Ethernet or USB with other BeagleBoards to create massive video walls. If what you are into is building 3D printers, then the BeagleBone has the extensive PWM capabilities, the on-chip Ethernet and the 3D rendering and manipulation capabilities all help you eliminate both your underpowered microcontroller-based controller board as well as that PC from your basement.