Why the BeagleBone and PocketBeagle?

The Beagle boards are powerful single-board computers (SBCs), and while there are other SBCs available on the market, such as the Raspberry Pi and Intel NUC boards, the Beagle platform has one key differentiator—it was built to be interfaced to! For example, the Beagle board's microprocessor package even contains two additional on-chip microcontrollers that can be used for real-time interfacing—an area in which other Linux SBCs have significant difficulty.

Unlike most other SBCs, the Beagle boards are fully open-source hardware. The BeagleBoard.org Foundation provides source schematics, hardware layout, a full bill of materials, and comprehensive technical reference manuals, enabling you to modify the design of the Beagle platform and integrate it into your own product. In fact, you can even fork the hardware design onto Upverter (www.upverter.com) under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (see tiny.cc/beagle001 for...