14 DAY TRIAL // BeagleBone, a miniature motherboard based on the ARM architecture, that will costs around $89 USD (65 EUR), has just been announced.
BeagleBone is designed be installed in the BeagleBoard, a low-cost, fan-less single-board computer based on low-power Texas Instruments processors featuring the ARM Cortex-A series core.
The size is really impressive, with a a length of juts 3.4 inches and a width of 2.1 inches. It's shipped with a 2GB microSD card, with the Angstrom Linux distribution with node.js and Cloud9 IDE.
It also features a single cable development environment with built-in FTDI-based serial/JTAG and on-board hub to give the same cable simultaneous access to a USB device port on the target processor.
The BeagleBone uses a TI AM3358 ARM Cortex-A8-based microprocessor, which is valued at $5 USD (3.6 EUR).
The configuration will be able to run a full-feature Linux distribution, with a little bit of tweaking.