There have been a few boards released recently to compete with the Raspberry Pi. The latest is the new BeagleBone Black from Texas Instruments.
The BBB has a 1GHz ARM A8 processor, 2GB onboard storage, 512MB RAM and a bunch of connectivity options including a massive 65 digital IO pins, 7 analog, SPI, I2C and 8 PWMs.
Until now, no-one has come close to matching the Pi’s price point, but this new $45 board comes close and it’ll be interesting to see if it is as popular as our lovely little green board.
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It does look interesting (assuming it doesn’t have some of the “interesting features” of the Pi like the behavior of its USB driver). I wonder how much current it draws, how that compares with the Pi. Also interesting it is a USB client as well as host.
@JBale
210mA @ Idle vs 322mA on RPi Model B.
I’m really consider buing it but I don’t know yet, if GPIO programming is as easy as on the Pi.