The BeagleBone Black enjoys good support from a dedicated community of devotees who have contributed to the success of the board by adding to the ever increasing open-source libraries, application examples and expansion capes. The BeagleBone Green is a newer variant with two Grove expansion connectors to allow the use of the wide range of Seeed Studios Grove expansion modules.

The Hackster.io community platform, BeagleBone.org-Foundation and Seeed want you to get creative with the BeagleBone green and think up a use for it in an IoT application. They have announced a competition and the first prize is a trip to the Maker Faire in Shenzhen China. To get things rolling, register your idea on the hackster Challenge web site http://www.hackster.io/challenges/beaglebonegreen and if they like it, you could get earn a discount or even a free BeagleBone Green board... What are you waiting for?