BeagleBone Blue microcomputer

TheBeagleBone® Blue is a Linux-based computer for robotics. It is integrated into a small 3.5" x 2.15" board with an Octavo OSD3358 microprocessor, along with wi-fi/bluetooth, IMU/barometer, power regulator, charging status indicator, H-Bridges, discrete connectors for DC generators, 8 connectors for servos and many other peripherals. Open source code, strong community support, and a wide range of features make building small robots with BeagleBone® Blue very easy, fun, and affordable.

BeagleBone® Blue combines the high-performance flexible WiFi / Bluetooth WiLink ™ BeagleBone® Black Wireless interface with the capabilities of Strawson Design's Robotics Cape. The BeagleBone® Blue features built-in dual-cell (2S) LiPo battery management with charger and battery level LEDs, 8 servo motor outputs, 4 DC motor drivers, 4 quadrature encoder inputs, a wide range of GPIO and serial protocol connectors including CAN, 9-axis IMU and barometer, 4 ADC inputs, USB PC interface, USB 2.0, reset button, power button, two user-configurable buttons and six indicator LEDs.

BeagleBone® Blue is designed for the development of projects in the field of the Internet of Things, smart home, industrial automation and process control, human-machine interface, drive and drone control, as well as a concentrator of various sensors or in other areas of robotics.

Based on Octavo Systems' System-In-Package, which combines a high-performance TI ARM processor with 512 MB of DDR3 memory, the BeagleBone® Blue boots Linux in about 10 seconds and lets you start developing via a web browser in less than 5 minutes with just one single USB cable.

Key Features:

Processor: Octavo Systems OSD3358

• AM335x 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 processor
• 512MB DDR3 RAM
• 4GB 8-bit eMMC built-in flash memory
• Built-in power management
• 2 × 32-bit 200-MHz programmable real-time units (PRUs)
• CPU supports NEON floating point accelerator
• ARM Cortex-M3
• USB2 host / client

Connectors and sensors

• Battery: 2-cell LiPo, LED monitor for checking the charge status
• Charger input: 9-18V
• Wireless connection: 802.11bgn, Bluetooth 4.1 and BLE
• Motor control: 8 6V servo outputs, 4 bidirectional DC motor outputs, 4 quadrature encoder inputs
• Sensors: 9-axis IMU (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer), barometer, thermometer
• Interface: 11 programmable LEDs, 2 programmable buttons
• Easy to connect JST interfaces for adding additional connectors and devices such as: GPS, DSM2 radio, UARTs, SPI, I2C, analog 1.8V, 3.3V GPIOs

Compatible software

• ROS, ArduPilot
• MATLAB and Simulink
• LabVIEW
• Cloud9 IDE on Node.js
• Python, OpenCV, ...

Technical specifications:

Elements of the board:

Resources for developers Wiki: BeagleBone® Blue Schematic