News - $5 ARM Cortex-A8 and $89 BeagleBone

[HEXUS]

New affordable ARM Cortex-A8 from Texas Instruments and a matching BeagleBone development kit.

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[amdavies]

There's also this, which is supposedly coming before Christmas and should be around $25:-

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

[Scribe]

There's also this, which is supposedly coming before Christmas and should be around $25:-

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Have been following it closely. The two products are similar but in many ways quite different in others. The Pi will be sold by a charity organisation and is designed to introduce users to Linux programming. The BeagleBone is designed for embedded systems builders.

There are some significant differences in capabilities and potential applications that a potential buyer will want to weigh up between the two.

[abaxas]

Have been following it closely. The two products are similar but in many ways quite different in others. The Pi will be sold by a charity organisation and is designed to introduce users to Linux programming. The BeagleBone is designed for embedded systems builders.

There are some significant differences in capabilities and potential applications that a potential buyer will want to weigh up between the two.

Lets hope someone produces a cheap usb IO board.

Then we could have the best of all worlds.