eleduino BeagleBone Black Rev C (4G) Single Board Computer Development Board

Your satisfaction with this board with be directly proportional to how much time and energy you want to invest into it. It is not a raspberry pi and those purchasing it with that expectation will be disappointed. The support community is smaller and the learning curve is steeper. However, it is a great dev board for the AM3359 processor and will not disappoint. For those looking to run a custom Linux distro, both buildroot and yocto offer a ready to compile solution. The graphics drivers can be a little difficult to get working on Linux 4.x.

Great SBC. I'm actually using one of these in a professional environment. I greatly prefer these to Raspberry Pi (1, 3, whatever) as they have more GPIO and are fully open platform. No wifi, but no worries for me. I don't like using wifi for an embedded device unless it's there for experimentation. Ethernet is far more stable.The best thing about these, and the BeagleBone Green as well, is that the micro usb port functions as a usb to serial console for Linux, a power supply, AND a usb RNDIS ethernet gadget (ethernet over usb). This is awesome. you only need a micro USB cable to do just about whatever you want with these. Makes for easier development. Plus, you can have two LANs that way if you set up connection sharing to the usb ethernet interface.They also use less power than Raspi 3, which is good. And the fact that it uses an eMMC instead of an SD card for the OS is also good. It's slightly more reliable than an SD card (talking about sudden power loss causing corruption). It will still happen with an eMMC, as I have read, but perhaps not as much as with an SD card. If you prefer, though, you can boot it from the SD card, or just use the micro-SD slot for data.Note that this CPU is not as powerful as a Raspberry Pi 3, which has a quadcore CPU. For what I use it for, this is more than adequate. This device is not for setting up a media PC and it's not for personal computing. It's for learning embedded development and using the GPIOs to interact with the world.

UPDATE: this is a revised review based on the fact that i found a solid working wifi module for this computerpurchased as a used warehouse item; previous buyer opened the wrapper, looked at it, then put it back and returned it...this is a little GNU/Linux development platform... i highly recommend getting a 3V TTL serial cable for serial debugging (you plug it into the header next to the I/O pins on the Ethernet side - you can then watch your BBB before and while it boots, then log in)the BBB is a fairly compact little SBC w/4GB eMMC for a filesystem - but you can also configure it as a dual-boot system if you prefer a different flavor of GNU/Linux; various 'capes' or plug-in boards are availablethe only downsides here are the hardware limitations: USB 2.0 port, no wifi... if you need more ports, plug in a USB hub and add a wifi dongle...at first, wifi simply did not work on this little computer; i tried four different wifi dongles and three wouldn't connect - a fourth, a Realtek, finally connected after many attempts and then would disconnect without warning...i FINALLY got rock-solid connection and wifi initiation using a Media Tek (mt7601) wifi module!!! i do not know why others would fail... but i would have to say that the mt7601 is *the* module for this SBC with the very latest Linux kernelalthough if you want a bit easier experience and more hardware, much better is to get a Beaglebone Green Wireless (which i highly recommend - very convenient, especially as two Grove connectors are also provided, along with wifi and 4 USB 2.0 ports) - the little computer just works... the reception is good and the wifi is rock solid...i paired this BBB with a Geauxbot acrylic case (no decent case is available for the BBGW yet)i also found two 2.1mm ID, 5.5mm OD 5V center-positive 2A power warts for 4 bits each after digging through a local hospice thrift store the other afternoon - check out your local charity thrift store for used warts and save a couple simoleonswith a few minutes effort, i also had an SSD1306 OLED display, along with the bme280 temp/barometric/humidity sensor hooked up and working off the GPIO i2c bus...i'd give the beaglebone black computer a try if you can find one at a good price (even used)

I received the equipment earlier than expected and it worked well.

The BB Black Rev C. is a great controller with so many onboard interfaces. I do wish that the GPIO lines were buffered better, since I blew up another BB by running the 5V into one. But there are a lot of options for writing software for this. I wrote a few javascript utilities, but did the heavy-duty stuff in C++, using the Visual Studio cross-development tools for Linux. So I get the great VS IDE, and can debug both the BB program and an external client all at once, with co-dependent break points, instruction-pointer manipulation, etc.

I had no idea the power this contains. I had to purchase one for class and I'm eccentric to be introduced to the world of Linux along with my BeagleBone as my companion.

I have been developing software and hardware systems on the Beaglebone for a few years now. A friend asked if I could setup BeagleSNES for him on one of this particular bone. It works great and is a very good embedded learning system.

Leaves the raspberry Pi in the dust except for one item. It doesn't have video compressor co-processor. If you're into video compression choose the Pi. If not, choose the Beaglebone Black. Consider your project carefully before you buy anything. Look at the "Capes" and the peripheral boards for both choices. If you're project demands performance neither board can deliver, consider the A20-OlinuXino board. Quad processor with considerable punch.

It’s a.Beagle Bone, what can I say.

This is good stuff, useful.

Perfect - no problem at all.

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