Seeed Studio Compare Beaglebone Black, Green, & Green Wireless
Beaglebone Green Wireless (BBGW) and Beaglebone Green (BBG) are both manufactured by Seeed Studio and are open-source hardware (OSHW) single-board computers. Both are similar to the Beaglebone Black (BBB), especially for software and all three ship with a resident Debian Linux OS.
These three platforms share the same processor, but there are a few differences concerning hardware peripherals. Both Beaglebone Green versions (BBG and BBGW) support the open-source click-in "Grove" hardware modules from Seeed Studio. BBG versions are better suited to embedded applications than Beaglebone Black. However, the BBG or BBGW can still be used as a standalone Linux computer without the HDMI support for monitors on Beaglebone Black. Nevertheless, both Green versions support the hardware add-on modules (called "capes") as the Beaglebone Black, including capes that can support a monitor.
BBG and BBGW boards have a small instruction manual and a 6-inch USB standard A to USB micro B cable. Everything else and the system reference manual are stored on the board, which acts like a USB thumb drive when plugged into a Windows or Linux computer, so installation and boot-up are easy.
A detailed comparison of all three boards follows in the link below. A much larger scale comparison of several open-source hardware boards in a large expandable table is intended to facilitate OSHW board selection (based on project requirements) at the Open Source Hardware Applications site.
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Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green
Features an AM3358 1GHz Arm Cortex-A8, 2x46 pin headers, and 2 Grove connectors.
Seeed Studio BeagleBone Green Wireless
All the BeagleBone Green features but with 4 USB 2.0 hosts, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, and Bluetooth 4.1 LE.
BeagleBoard BeagleBone® Black
Low-cost, high-expansion focused development platform with Sitara AM3359 Arm Cortex-A8 32-Bit MPU.