Comparing Hardware Hacker Prototyping Boards

Joe Heitzeberg
May 23, 2013

(Photo) The image shows a circuit board with various components, including a USB port being connected by a hand. object | indoor | circuit board, hands, USB connection | close-up Note: The image is a real-life photograph of a circuit board and hands interacting with it. It captures a moment in time, rather than being a drawn illustration or a designed logo/banner.

UDOO, a sort-of dual Arduino + Raspberry PI hardware hacker prototyping board and extremely successful Kickstarter campaign that we interviewed recently, just released a handy comparison chart of similar products. Unless you backed their project as we did, you might not see it, so we’re reposting it here.

(Other) A comparison chart outlining the technical specifications of five different single-board computers: UDOO Quad, Beagle Bone Black, Wandboard Dual, ODROID X2, and Raspberry Pi Model B. Text: UDOO QUAD 4 X ARM CORTEX A-9 1GHz + ARM Cortex-M3 Vivante GC2000, Vivante GC355, Vivante GC320 DDR3 1GB YES 1Gbit/s INTEGRATED NO (USB EXPANSION) 3 Port USB 2.0 Host Hub HDMI / LVDS SINGLE CHANNEL (+touch) YES YES YES (CSI) 54 pin (shared between CPUs) YES ARDUINO DUE COMPATIBLE BOARD EMBEDDED CPU GPU RAM SATA ETHERNET WIFI BLUETOOTH USB VIDEO OUT AUDIO ANLOG AUDIO DIGITAL CAMERA INTERFACE GPIO HEADER REAL TIME CLOCK ARDUINO BEAGLE BONE BLACK SINGLE CORE CORTEX A8 1GHz SGX530 DDR3 512MB NO 10/100 Mbit/s NO (USB EXPANSION) NO (USB EXPANSION) 1 Port USB 2.0 Host Hub HDMI NO YES YES 65 pin OPTIONAL NO WANDBOARD DUAL 2 X ARM CORTEX A-9 1GHz Vivante GC880, Vivante GC320 DDR3 1GB NO 1Gbit/s INTEGRATED INTEGRATED 1 Port USB 2.0 Host Hub HDMI YES YES YES (CSI) 8 pin YES NO ODROID X2 4 X ARM CORTEX A-9 1.7GHz Mali 400 DDR3 2GB NO 10/100 Mbit/s NO (USB EXPANSION) NO (USB EXPANSION) 4 Port USB 2.0 Host Hub Micro-HDMI YES YES YES (MIPI 2) 50 pin YES NO RASPBERRY PI model B ARM11 700MHz Broadcom VideoCore IV 256MB (max 512MB) NO 10/100 Mbit/s NO (USB EXPANSION) NO (USB EXPANSION) 2 Port USB 2.0 Host Hub Composite Video, Composite RCA, HDMI YES YES YES (CSI) 26 pin NONE NO Note: This image is a table comparing technical specifications. While it contains text, it's not a banner, logo, handwriting, photo, or illustration. It's best categorized as "other".

Click to view “UDOO Comparison Table”

Of course there are a few things missing from this chart, such as price and the new Arduino Yún (released just days ago), which like the UDOO, combines the worlds of Arduino, Linux and WiFi together in one board.

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