February 24, 2023

The PocketBeagle

I have two of these in my drawer for many years. I have never even powered them up.

These have the same AM3358 chip as the BBB, along with the same 512M of ram. There is no eMMC and no ethernet. Also no video (thankfully). You get an SD card slot and a single usb connector. You also get 72 IO pins and the PRU units in the 3348

I was put off by these due to the lack of ethernet, but you can run a network connection over a USB cable.

They sell for $55 on Amazon in 2023. Adafruit shows them as discontinued (with the old price of $35).

My interest in the Pocketbeagle was stirred up again by this project which uses one:

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Tom's Computer Info / tom@mmto.org