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The Beaglebone AI offers a distinctive advantage over the Raspberry Pi and other boards. It allows you to perform real time data processing or operations or to perform actions in “hard real time”, and this can be critical for IoT projects. A Programmable Real Time Unit is used by Beaglebone.

The Programmable Real-time Unit and Industrial Communications Subsystem is a s...

Beaglebone has a key strength over Raspberry Pi and that is the larger number of input and output ports on the board. Beaglebone has 96 ports compared to 40 with the Raspberry Pi. The Beaglebone also features analogue inputs, important for directly connecting analogue sensors whereas Raspberry has digital inputs only. The BeagleBone features impressive Input/Output capabilities: the board has a di...

In general, Beaglebone is more customizable so you will strip out what you don’t need. You will use the processing power to run your applications and not the OS, then you would need to focus on ensuring your OS is always up to date, more frequently using OTA updates to run the latest libraries. With Raspberry Pi with more processing power, you will need less control. So it comes back to the entry...

There are many different board options for an IoT project. Perhaps for most users, Beaglebone < https://beagleboard.org/ > would not be the first choice. The wider support options and easier path to set up out of the box make Raspberry Pi a more popular option. The Beaglebone Project is a relatively old board project with the Beaglebone having been first released in 2013. There are projects out th...

We are excited to announce the Mender 3.0 LTS release!

Mender 3.0 introduces new features to get full control over the progress of the update, both centrally through Synchronized update as well as with device application through brand new Mender Device-side API using D-Bus.

We also released maintenance releases 2.7.1 and 2.6.2 which contain stability improvements, but no new features. If you a...