Introduction

The BeagleBone Black is a low-cost, community-supported development board with lots of usable pins for developers and hobbyists. Users can boot Linux in under 10 seconds and start development in under 5 minutes with a single USB cable.

The BeagleBone has an ARM Cortex-A8 processor with 512 MB ram. It has two 46-pin connectors containing LCD, UART, ADC, I2C, SPI and PWM. The Beaglebone Black is available in several specific versions to suit your project.

Each version has the same power, the same ram size and the same dimensions. You also get the same operating system for the different BeagleBone Black boards.
Let’s take a look at the different BeagleBone Black boards.

The different boards

BeagleBone Black Industrial

The BeagleBone Black Industrial meets the need for an industrial-grade single-board computer with an extended temperature range from -40°C to +85°C.

SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green Gateway

Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Gateway is a joint effort between BeagleBoard.org and Seeed Studio. It’s based on the classic open-source hardware design of BeagleBone Black. It also includes two Grove connectors, facilitating connection to the large family of Grove sensors.

Compared to the initial Beaglebone Black, the integrated HDMI and Ethernet ports have been removed to make room for these wireless features and Grove connectors.

SanCloud BeagleBone Enhanced Industrial

SanCloud BeagleBone Enhanced Industrial is based on the open-source hardware design of BeagleBone Black, with many industrial features. The board is designed to operate in a temperature range from -40 to 85°C.

This variant also comes with 1 gigabyte of RAM, as opposed to the 512 MB of the Beaglebone Black. It also has 2 USB ports, one more than the Beaglebone Black.

SanCloud BeagleBone Enhanced WiFi 1G

SanCloud BeagleBone Enhanced Wifi 1G is based on the open-source hardware design of BeagleBone Black with many IOT features. This variant also comes with 1 gigabyte of RAM, as opposed to the 512 MB of the BeagleBone Black. It also features a wifi and Bluetooth module.

SanCloud BeagleBone Enhanced Extended WiFi

The SanCloud BeagleBone Enhanced Extended WiFi meets the need for an industrial-grade single-board computer with an extended temperature range from -30°C to +85°C. Like the Beaglebone Black, it has 512 Mb of Ram. However, it also includes a wifi and blutooth module to add connectivity to your industrial projects!