102010027 BeagleBone Green

BeagleBone Green (or BBG for short) is a joint venture from Beaglebone.org and Seeed Studio, and is based on the BeagleBone Black (BBB) design. If you have heard of BBB, you may know that it was the most popular board in the BeagleBone family. BBG is much cheaper than its predecessor and has adopted all the best features from BeagleBone. Put simply, BBG is better than BBB: We have retained almost all of the qualities that made BBB so great, such as its tiny size and its excellent expandability, while also changing it a little to make it more powerful.

The most significant change that we have made is to replace the HDMI interface with two Grove connectors. Grove is a modular, standardised connector prototyping system that lets you create applications with no soldering or jumpers required. What's more, we have replaced the 5-V connection with a micro-USB host so that the board can be operated more comfortably.

Please note that despite the changes we have made, BBG is still fully compatible with BBB and its accessories.