The main change is replacing the HDMI interface with 2 Grove connectors. Grove is a great
invention by Seeed, it is a modular standardized connector prototyping system by which you
are able to build applications without soldering and jump wires. With the rapid development of
the grove system, more and more sensors, actuators, displays are joining in the grove family, all
of them are integrated the standard grove connector, so that you can connect the BBG to them
with a simple cable. So far we have produced more than 30 Groves that work well with BBG, and
the number is increasing. Apart from that, we also changed the 5V barrel to be micro USB host,
so that you can power the board more conveniently.
Note
Please click here to see the full grove list that compatible with BBG.
Grove - RTC is not compatible with Beaglebone Green as it requires 5V.
Despite of the changes we made, BBG is still fully compatible with BBB and applied with all the
BBB capes. Even though BBG has all these advantages, we did not increase the price, actually
the price of BBG is much cheaper, it may be the most low-cost Beaglebone in history. What we
want is to provide a Beaglebone that is not only more powerful and easy-to-use but also
reachable to most people. Please don’t hesitate to choose BBG if you need a Beaglebone for
your project, I am sure you will like it.
Hardware Overview
BeagleBone Black VS BeagleBone Green
Check the Compatible License from BeagleBoard.org.
BeagleBone Black (BBB)
MSRP:
SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green (BBG)
MSRP:
AM3358 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 AM3358 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8
512MB DDR3 RAM 512MB DDR3 RAM
4GB 8-bit eMMC on-board flash storage 4GB 8-bit eMMC on-board flash storage
3D graphics accelerator 3D graphics accelerator
NEON floating-point accelerator NEON floating-point accelerator
2x PRU 32-bit microcontrollers 2x PRU 32-bit microcontrollers
USB client for power & communications USB client for power & communications
USB host USB host