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Beagle Bone Black

Beagle Bone Black (Revision C.1) is an Open Source Hardware (OSHW) single board computer. This means that the designer is actively helping people using the platform for their own designs, and supports them in adding hardware functionality and production advice. This is a part of freedom that is often overlooked, but very much aligned with the FreedomBox goals. FreedomBox images are built and tested for this device. To use this device as a FreedomBox, a separate USB WiFi device that does not require non-free firmware is recommended.

Recommendation: If you are using a board that uses SD cards, when you flash the FreedomBox image onto your SD card, we recommend that you use an SD card with at least 8GB of storage space.

Download

FreedomBox SD card images are available for this device. Follow the instructions on the download page to create a FreedomBox SD card and boot the device.

Note: This image is for BeagleBone Black (Revision C.1) only. It will not work on the BeagleBone Green, and also not on the Revisions A&B. If you have such a device and would like to help getting FreedomBox to run on it, contact us!

An alternative to downloading these images is to install Debian on the BeagleBone and then install FreedomBox on it.

Build Image

FreedomBox images for this hardware can be built using Freedom Maker.

Availability

• Price: ~ 59 USD (50 EUR)

• Mouser Electronics

• Full list of suppliers

Hardware

• Open Source Hardware (OSHW): Yes

• CPU: AM335x 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8

• RAM: 512MB DDR3L 800 Mhz
• Storage: Onboard 4GB, 8bit Embedded MMC and microSD
• Architecture: armhf
• Ethernet: 10/100, RJ45

• WiFi: None, use a USB WiFi device

• SATA: None

Non-Free Status

• Non-free blobs required: No

• WiFi: Not available

• Works with stock Debian kernel: Yes

Known Issues

None

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Beagle Bone Black image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License by Circuitco.