EVB: Replace the Brain and Sensors in your LEGO® MINDSTORMS EV3 with a BeagleBone Black. 100% LEGO compatible but Much More Powerful.

EVB is a shield (or called cape) for Beaglebone Black (BBB). It fully support LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 system, either the hardware and software! EVB is compatible with all LEGO® sensors just like the EV3 Brick, 100% compatible! It allows the EV3 VM to be run on the Beaglebone Black. What powerful is, with extra Sensor Board in EVB system, you can do more! This means you can add more sensors to your LEGO® system.

EVB can be loved by users especially those wanting to expand both platforms even further and their learning/making/hacking/coding journey into the now quickly emerging wonderful world of making!

EVB is easy for beginner and powerful for senior or professional makers!

EVB works as same as LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3.

BeagleBone Black is a credit-card-sized Linux computer that connects to the Internet and runs software such as Android 4.0 and Ubuntu. With plenty of I/O and processing power for real-time analysis provided by an AM335x 720MHz ARM® processor, BeagleBone can be complemented with cape plug-in boards to augment functionality. Find more.

LEGO® Mindstorms EV3 has ARM9 (TI Sitara AM180x) in it, so upgrading to BeagleBone Black with ARM Cortex-A8 (TI Sitara AM335x) is definitely a step up, plus all the expandability of BBB is a big plus!

EV3 is based on the famous GNU/Linux operating system, the main chip used is TI AM1808, the most important, it is also open of all software and hardware (Thank LEGO® providing such a good learning materials for the majority of fans, Andy almost found 80% of the original information on EV3 on official blog). More, Beaglebong Black is based on TI AM335X series chip development board. So it is possible!

LEGO® MINDSTORMS EV3 source code on GitHub.

Features of EVB and Technical Specs