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Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits

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vrgrrl:
For those interested in LilyPad, you might want to check out FLORA, which gives even more options!

http://hackaday.com/2012/01/21/flora-a-better-arduino-lilypad/

40hz:
Just found out about this $75 critter called a RioTboard available from Newark Element14.

 Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits    Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone: Choosing between tiny DIY computer kits

It's running an A9 Cortex processor @ 1Ghz, has 1GB onboard DDR3 RAM and boots Android. It'ss pretty tricked out port and feature-wise (see below). And it has several nice features (i.e. JTAG interface, camera interface, GPIO port) that make it ideally suited for tablet, netbook and appliance applications - which is where my main interests chiefly lie.

Full speche RIoTboard is based on the i.MX 6Solo processor from Freescale Semiconductor integrating all the functionalities of this multimedia application processor with the following features:

    Processor
        ARM Cortex A9 MPCore™ Processor at 1 GHz
        High-performing video processing unit which covers SD-level and HD-levelvideo decoders and SD-level encoders as a multi-standard video codec engine
        An OpenGL® ES 2.0 3D graphics accelerator with a shader and a 2D graphics accelerator for superior 3D, 2D, and user interface acceleration

    Memories
        1GByte of 32-bit wide DDR3 @ 800MHz
        4GB eMMC

   Media Interfaces
        Analog headphone/microphone, 3.5mm audio jack
        LVDS interface
        HDMI interface
        Parallel RGB interface
        Camera interface (Support CCD or CMOS camera)
        MIPI lanes at 1 Gbps

   Data Transfer Interfaces
        Debug Ports: 3 pin TTL level
        Serial Ports:
            UART2, 3 line serial port, RS232 Logic
            UART3,4,5, 3 line serial port, RS232 Logic (Expansion port)

       USB Ports:
            1 x USB2.0 OTG, mini USB, high-speed, 480Mbps
            4 x USB2.0 HOST, Type A, high-speed, 480Mbps

        uSD card interface
        SD card interface
        10M/100M/Gb Ethernet Interface (RJ45 jack)
        2 channel I2C interface (Expansion port)
        2 channel SPI interface (Expansion port)
        3 channel PWM interface (Expansion port)
        GPIO (Expansion port)

   Input Interfaces
        10-pin JTAG interface
        Boot configuration interface

    Others
        1 Power LED
        1 Open SDA LED
        2 User-defined LEDs
        1 DC Jack
        1 Reset button

 Kit Contents

    RIoTboard
    Quick User Guide
    Male 'USB Type A' to 'Male USB Type Mini-B' cable
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Target:
this sounds interesting - Nucleo

more power, more memory, compatible with arduino shields, and cheap!

ewemoa:
In the comments of the comparison that phitsc mentioned there was also:

  https://www.gumstix.com/
  http://www.friendlyarm.net/
  http://www.pcduino.com/

4wd:
For those interested in the Arduino, Little Bird Electronics have a Kickstarter project up.

They're taking your normal size Arduino and shrinking it a bit:



Called the MicroView, more info here: Chip-sized Arduino with built-in OLED Display!

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