Meet PandaBoard

Do you dream of developing mobile apps and letting those little puppies quietly top up your bank account while you keep your day job? If you have $174 to spare, this could be your time.

TI has just introduced the PandaBoard, a low-cost, open OMAP 4 processor-based mobile software development platform. If you’re used to TI’s BeagleBoard, you’ll be right at home with the PandaBoard, which is considerably more powerful. The OMAP 4 processor contains two ARM Cortex-A9 cores each running at 1 GHz, giving you the SMP processing power of most desktops in a small form factor, mobile package; the board contains more I/O connections and wireless protocols than you’re ever likely to need–but you never know.

You can read all about it here or sit back, drink your coffee and let TI’s engineers walk you through the PandaBoard’s features and specs in the following video. I’ve already ordered mine.