Beaglebone Black also known as BBBK by some, is a powerful applications processor development platform for building Linux-based embedded systems. At the heart of Beaglebone Black is a TI Sitara™ AM3359 ARM Cortex-A8 processor running at 1GHz. BBBK also comes with:

• 512MB DDR3 SDRAM
• 4GB eMMC preloaded with Debian Linux
• MicroSD Card slot
• 10/100 Ethernet
• Micro-HDMI output for video
• USB host and slave ports
• 65 digital IOs, including PWM and serial interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART etc.)
• 7 analog inputs 

This board was developed to be a powerful standalone Linux solution with an easy scripted development environment. Additionally there are many resources for developing Android builds and other Linux based distributions.