Tag Archives: Beaglebone

Just received the BeagleBoard Foundation Newsletter - the August "Easy AI Edition" - and a case study on building automation caught my eye.

The BeagleBone organisation has created a 64bit Linux single board computer with AI capability and other hardware accelerators. Eight Top/s of neural-network processing are accessible through Python libraries. Called AI-64 it is built around Texas Instruments’ TDA4VM, which has 2GHz dual Arm Cortex-A72 cores, a C7x DSP core, and deep learning, vision and multimedia accelerators, according to Farnell, which is ...

Artificial intelligence in BeagleBone AI comes from two Texas Instruments C66x DSPs and four ’embedded vision engine’ (EVE) cores (dubbed the ‘Vision AccelerationPac’ by TI) with TI Deep Learning (TIDL) support – an TIDL machine learning OpenCL API with pre-installed tools. Up to thirty-two 16 x 16bit fixed-point multiplies are available per cycle All of this hardware is the main SoC, a ...

In a novel twist an Australian firm has used the I²C serial interface to connect a touch display to a BeagleBone Black development board. Connecting an LCD to computer modules such as BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi, has always involved a degree of compromise. 4D Systems believes it is practical to use the I²C interface rather than traditional LCD capes which ...

The BeagleBone Black Wireless, the credit-card-sized Linux computer that integrates Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces and I/O for IoT sensors, is available from RS Components. It is a development system which can be used with open-source software platforms such as Debian, Android and Ubuntu. The hardware has both 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but no Ethernet-10/100 connectivity. There is however an HDMI ...

Farnell is aiming at industrial users with two ‘cape’ add-on boards for BeagleBone Black: one for wireless comms and another that adds a display. On top of this, is it also now stocking BeagleBone Black Wireless, which has followed Raspberry Pi 3 by adding native Wi-Fi support to a credit card-sized single-board computer. The Wireless Cape takes BeagleBone Black well ...

To house small PCBs using USB as the external power and signal interconnect, Hammond Electronics has extended its 1551 miniature enclosure family with three new sizes, all 15.5mm high: 35 x 20mm 50 x 25mm 65 x 30mm “The sizes have been chosen after customer consultation to provide prototype builders and small volume OEMs generous room for their PCB,” said ...

Check out the new BeagleBone Green Wireless from SeeedStudio. Increasingly, dev boards come with built-in RF connectivity and the BeagleBone is following this path.

Randall Restle explains how an analysis of the internet some 10 years ago has had some important consequences for the nature of product design and marketing, Around 10 years ago, a group of observers of online trends wrote a series of manifestos that explored how the internet would change the nature of business. One of them, the Cluetrain Manifesto, declared ...

Farnell element14 is to start manufacturing the BeagleBone Black, open source embedded system design module. The BeagleBone Black will be manufactured by Premier Farnell’s subsidiary Embest Technology. This differs from the approach to the Raspberry Pi computing modules, which are manufactured by Sony UK Technology Centre in Wales for Farnell element14 and rival distributor RS Components. David Shen, group chief technical officer ...