Jason Kridner returns to The Amp Hour after his first appearance 15 years ago to talk about the BeagleBadge and Zepto boards that showcase new capabilities in the Linux and Zephyr space. The BeagleBoard.org project is still focused on building open source, affordable, and accessible Linux and embedded hardware.
Welcome back, Jason Kridner!
- Jason has previously been on the show
- 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