BeagleBoard Gives New Power to Open Source Gadgets

“Texas Instruments has released a new version of its low-power,
single-board computer called BeagleBoard-xM. It’s based on the same
1-GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor that drives the most sophisticated
smartphones today. That gives it far more processing power than the
leading open-source microcontroller platform, Arduino, which many
hobbyists currently use to create robots, sensors, toys and other
DIY devices.

“The BeagleBoard-xM has multimedia features similar to the
processor seen in the Palm Pre and Motorola Droid, and includes
on-board ethernet, five USB 2.0 ports and 512 MB of memory.”

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