BeagleBone

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by ebarker

If you want to do DSP or video stuff, it looks cool.

If you want to do digital or analog I/O, not so hot. I don't think it has any support.

What are you basing this on? There are 60 Digital I/O and the press release mentions other onboard peripherals which according to some blogs include ADC.

This is a very powerful board, the advantages a more expensive vex board would have would be due to being supported by a company rather than a open-source community. Nothing on this board is going to be gift wrapped for you the way VEX will provide source and support but as with Arduino the knowledge base available will grow rapidly.

As part of my day job I was able to play with the onboard microcontroller using one of TIs dev boards (which retails for $1200), this is a powerful chip and is as fast as you are seeing in industry today, the ability to release it in a barebones package at a sub $100 price point is awesome, cant wait to get one.