#723 – BeagleBoard’s Back with Jason Kridner

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