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#723 – BeagleBoard’s Back with Jason Kridner

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Welcome back, Jason Kridner!

  • Jason has previously been on the show
    • Episode 59 (!)
    • Episode 378 alongside Robert Nelson
  • The BeagleY AI was the first board that mimic’ed the RPi form factor
  • PocketBeagle 2 is still a small altoid tin form factor with a new processor
  • The Zepto is a new product targeting a $1 price point for microcontrollers
  • Many boards in the Beagle catalog now run Zephyr, and BeagleBoard.org recently joined The Zephyr Project as members and contributors
  • Click Brand is the official bards from MikroElectronika that implement the open source Mikrobus
  • Chris started using Mikrobus while designing early prototypes of the BeagleConnect Freedom
  • The Freedom board talks over wireless to boards like the BeaglePlay
  • Application spaces for different boards
  • FPGA based board
  • Cheeseburger robot? Well yes, but also Cheeseburger robot
  • Mitchells vs the machine
  • Krazam
  • Click boarfds now have eeprom / ClickID as a 1-wire identifier with a uuid
  • Beagleplay has 802.15.4
  • Project ARA popularized the idea of Greybus
  • MotoMods from Motorola was another implementation that worked on the Moto Z
  • Using Freedom for prototyping
  • WebAssembly
  • …on microcontrollers?
  • Jason says he doesn’t really like MCUboot
  • Entering the linux ecosystem
  • bb-imager
  • Techlab is a way to easily extend peripherals for the PocketBeagle
  • Known working targets
  • Michael Welling designed the baconbits mini cape as a learning platform
  • The BeagleBadge is a new formfactor shown in the title image for this episode. It runs on a new low cost TI part running Linux and yes… it runs Doom
  • The Badge can also talk on Meshtastic
  • Working with the memory shortage
  • Bao – Bunie and Xobs
  • Bella / Gem
  • Beagle5fire
  • RISC V boards
  • RV32 Claire
  • Find Beagle and Jason online
    • Schedule a meeting with Jason
    • There is also a Discord
    • And a Zulip instance
    • You can get Beagle merch

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