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OSGi on BeagleBoard, maybe?

Ulf — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:17:00 PDT

Earlier today I ordered the tiny BeagleBoard embedded system with the combined ARM Cortex A8 and a DSP. It seems that there is now Java support in the form of Jalimo which should make it possible to run OSGi on this cool embedded system.

ESC Boston giving away free Beagles

jadon — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:36:28 PDT

"At the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Boston show on Oct. 26-30, the organizers are giving away free Cortex-A8-based Beagle development boards."

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Finally, my beagleboard :-)

rsalveti — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:59:23 PDT

beagleboard starting

Today I finally had a chance to put my hands at my beagleboard! My lovely girlfriend brought it from her trip to USA

This is just the beginning, just booted it to test if it was working ok, still need to get the serial port working to let the fun part begin!

First step is to boot Mamona and get everything we already have at OE so we could integrate one more board at Mamona

Beagleboard is a really great idea and a fun toy, it’s like keesj said, the hardware is just sexy

If you don’t know what exactly is the Beagleboard project, I recommend you to take a closer look at http://beagleboard.org/ it’s really cool to see all the movement on this little board

Hope to post more about it soon

Firefox 3.0.1 in Ångstrøm

koen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:48:11 PDT

Firefox 3.0.1 in Ångstrøm, originally uploaded by koenkooi.

The firefox 3.0.1 browser now works in angstrom, but it's much, much slower and memory hungry than epiphany-webkit.

Beagleboard demo image available

koen — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:42:51 PDT

For people wanting to try Ångström on their beagleboard, you can now download a
demo! It includes e17 as window manager, the abiword word processor, the gnumeric spreadsheet application, a NEON accelerated mplayer and the popular NEON accelerated omapfbplay which gives you fullscreen 720p decoding.

The http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard directory should contain all the files you need:

See the beagle wiki on how to setup your SD card to use all this goodness.

USB Beagle Board Is A Developers Dream

Editor — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:54:48 PDT

Digi-Key released their USB Beagle Board today which is a low cost, high performance development board for ground level design work. The USB Beagle Board is 3in x 3in in size, includes a powerful 600MHYz ARM Cortex A8 processor, high speed USB 2.0 port, SD port, C64x+ DSP & video acceleration and supports 1280×1024 DVI-D monitors.

The ARM processor will handle over 1,200 million instructions per second (MIPS) making it as powerful as most laptops these days.

The USB Beagle Board is only $149 making it the least expensive, most powerful development board on the market. Here is a list of other hardware components for the Beagle Board:

OMAP3530 applications processor featuring the ARM® Cortex™-A8
128MB low-power DDR RAM
256MB NAND flash
USB 2.0 high-speed on-the-go port
NTSC/PAL TV via S-Video output
6-in-one 8-bit MMC+/SD/SDIO connection
Stereo audio in/output
JTAG header
I2S, I2S, SPI, MMC/SD expansion header
Power via USB or alternate jack

Digi-Key has created a developers website where a host of applications can already be found. www.beagleboard.org

Beagle Board Demo Images

Nishanth Menon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:23:00 PDT

Koen has put up demo images for beagleboard here: http://amethyst.openembedded.net/~koen/beagleboard/demo/

Live feed

Are we really innovating?

khasim — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:15:00 PDT

Don’t know why but since few days I am asking this question to my self and to many. The answer I get is bit strange…

To start with what is an innovation? A solution to a common problem (addresses the need) that is accepted globally may be?

While I was in school we used to read lot of books on quiz and innovations and if you have noticed there used to be lot of discoveries in 18^th century and early 19^th as well, but after mid 19^th century they have dropped considerably

Does this mean we have stopped innovating? No way:

Daily there are tons of concepts, ideas and thoughts floating around every area of research.
The amount of investment in terms of money, time, effort on research has grown drastically over recent years
Every year there are 100s of new products getting launched in all segments.
So many patents being filed every year.

But why don’t we call them as innovation? Why are they not getting into regular books that we used to read?

An answer given by one of my favorite was “we have to wait till we call them as innovation, may be after some years we will treat these as achievements/innovations”

The one that I believe in is “We are sharing an innovation” – there is no longer a single person involved in innovation. The technology is growing exponentially, an idea needs lot of effort to turn it into a solution for our problem.

To dig more: My favorite innovation is Electric Lamp from Thomas A Edison, if I do some self reasoning, I enter into following questions and self answers

What made him invent Electric Lamp? --- Need?
He had other energies like Solar, Hydro, etc then why Electricity? --- Accessibility and feasibility may be?
Was he aware that there was this energy in electricity that can produce Light? Yes, amazing?
If he had used other sources of energy, would that have been a right choice? No, the innovation might have been deprecated by now.
How this innovation reached all corners of earth? Today we spend so much on marketing, how did this get marketed? --- May be Common Need of people across the world and demand than some one pushing to accept it.

If I summarize this innovation, it has

- Broader community to accept it as innovation – A global cause/need

- It is be feasible to adopt in any circumstances

- It presents a road map to improve till date

- It is mobile in general, I can carry it where ever I move.

- Not bound to specific area of interest.

Overall – he understood the energy and drove it in a direction that gave a solution for the problem called "Darkness.."

I think this is what we miss today, there are lots of common problems and there are various sources of energies - we need to find right energy to find a right solution.

Unless we do this we cannot call any thing that we do as an innovation….

A quick hint:

Try http://beagleboard.org, it has enormous energy in terms of man power, inventory, intelligence, documentation, awareness, forum to showcase your abilities and capabilities and more over we have lot of global problems to solve…. With this energy if you can find a solution to one of the existing global problems then you are the next - Edison.

Good Luck

Khasim…!

Beagleboard: Linux inside!

Urgentissimo! — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:01:00 PDT

clipped from elinux.org

Il mio prossimo acquisto! A novembre 2008 esce la revisione C (cioè quella finale) della Beagleboard, una SBC fanless (single-board computer, e senza elementi in movimento) dotata di:

- processore Cortex-A8 a 600 MHz, il migliore della classe ARM9
- DSP 8-core a 430 MHz (e librerie ottimizzate per multimedia)
- acceleratore grafico 2D/3D (supporta OpenGLES 2 e Direct3D)
- due porte USB2 (una EHCI ed una On The Go)
- 128Mb RAM DDR + 256 Mb NAND flash + slot SD/MMC
- uscite video HDMI e composito; audio stereo in/out
- alimentabile da porta USB
- larga 76x76mm, costerà 149$

BeagleBoard: LA VOGLIO!!!

Urgentissimo! — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:11:00 PDT

clipped from dkc1.digikey.com

Proprio oggi che comincia a funzionare la mia SBC fanless... vedo che la DigiKey comincia a vendere la BeagleBoard!

Sapevo che la BeagleBoard doveva essere in vendita super completa a novembre 2008, ma per bruciare i tempi penso che avranno fatto qualche sacrificio sulla parte software (la BeagleBoard supporta anche accelerazione 3D e multimedia).

Non consuma niente (alimentata da USB), corre abbastanza (600MHz Cortex-A8, il più veloce della classe ARM), piccolissima (76x76mm... ahimé, esclusa la cavetteria esterna).

Devo resistere alla tentazione di ordinarla subito... mi concentrerò con tutte le mie forze sul fatto che ad agosto le poste consegneranno solo alla fine delle ferie!

CMP - Beagleboard

(author unknown) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:06:23 PDT

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Embedded Systems Conference Boston is having a "build your own embedded system" track featuring the Beagle Board.

Build Your Own Embedded System

Mamona working with Beagleboard

Francisco Keppler Silva Alecrim — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:03:34 PDT

A few weeks ago we got a BeagleBoard from Texas Instrument.

Thanks to Texas Instrument for this good project !!!

The answer to Mamona and BeagleBoard: when?:

Now we have Mamona working with TVOUT using this board. Nice !!

ASAP I will post more details about this topic.

More pictures …

TI launches the open source Beagle Board for £75

(author unknown) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:34:09 PDT

TI hopes to build a community around its open sourced Beagle Board; a "personally affordable" embedded computer development kit.

Digi-key pressrelease

koen — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:58:28 PDT

Another few seconds of fame :) From the pressrelease:

"Having access to a Beagle Board enabled me to implement support for the Cortex-A8 in the OpenEmbedded build system and the Ångström Distribution,” said Koen Kooi, student at Universiteit Twente and core developer of OpenEmbedded. “This gives developers easy access to the tools needed to get the most out of the OMAP3530 device and integrated C64x™ DSP, which makes it a great board for low-power software defined radio projects."

PhoneME Advanced Foundation (with JIT) at Jalimo

(author unknown) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:26:25 PDT

This was a big pile of work but now it is a nice achievement for Jalimo: The most complicated issues have been sorted out and we can now build Sun's PhoneME Advanced (Foundation profile) with the JIT compiler enabled for all our little ARM devices (And not only we can do this but everyone because the recipes are in the repository).

The first device for which I could build the runtime was the BeagleBoard. You can see the full log of the first bits of CVM-goodness on that device here. What is important to note is that the JIT compiler is enabled:

CVM_JIT=true

When compiling the source with the JIT the build gets a bit more complicated: Some Java programs will be compiled and run on certain sources. What is nice that these helper programs actually run on a GNU Classpath-powered VM. See, this code is still does usefull things for us. :-)

Buglabs recently did a comparison of Cacao, JamVM and PhoneME Advanced (interpreted only) on ARM systems. Surprisingly (or not :-) ) JamVM does a very good job!

While we are at it: JamVM seems to be the only (free!) Java virtual machine that can run on the AVR32 architecture. The port is not yet included in the upstream repository but is nevertheless quite interesting: The guys doing the port are making use of the Java hardware acceleration (whose specification can be obtained freely).

Finally the other day I wrote down everything about the Java support in OpenEmbedded to the shiny new OE wiki. I hope that with this information people will quickly be able to customize their OE-based distribution. Furthermore the pages describe the quite complex bootstrap process and each of the packages that belongs to it.

Next stop: OpenJDK ;-)

Can open source kick-start the hardware hobbyist market?

(author unknown) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:03:50 PDT

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What an interesting interview. That's "smart cars", not "cards". Maybe not as many people have heard of Digi-Key as I'd expect.

Open source has done a lot over the last 10 years.

But can it kick-start a hobbyist market for hardware?

Texas Instruments thinks it can. That is why they have placed their latest OMAP 35xx chip on to a USB-powered board for distribution by Digi-Key of Minnesota.

The resulting product is called the Beagle Board, and it went on sale online this week, said Jason Kridner, open platforms principal architect for TI. Want a second distribution option? It will be on print catalogs in time for Christmas.

“We’ve got 480 developers on the mailing list, and they talk about applications in gaming, smart cards, media centers, prosthetic medical devices, even autonomous robots.”

If you’re an OEM looking to translate that USB power requirement into terms you understand, it’s a five-volt power source.

“This is going after a new customer base. This is going after a hobbyist base, students and open source developers. They won’t build products directly. This is the end product for them.”

“The other aspect is this is a different support model – it’s community oriented support. To really allow us to reach a lot more people this is not going to be a TI product. It’s going under the name Digi-key.”

Digi-Key, for those who don’t know, is a $370 million electronics distributor based in the little town of Thief River Falls, which is way north of Lake Wobegon, about 30 miles east of I-29 and the Red River valley of North Dakota.

If you’re an electronics hobbyist with Internet access, however, that’s the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway.

Beagle Board for open community now in India - CIOL

(author unknown) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:56:25 PDT

Beagle Board for open community now in India
CIOL, India - Jul 28, 2008
He added, "BeagleBoard.org is a worldwide initiative that gives the open community an opportunity to innovate on technology for next generation. ...

USB-powered Beagle Board from Digi-Key Unleashes Community ... - Business Wire (press release)

(author unknown) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:05:06 PDT

Business Wire (press release)

USB-powered Beagle Board from Digi-Key Unleashes Community ...
Business Wire (press release), CA - Jul 28, 2008
For community information, mailing lists, links to discussion forums and updates on Beagle Board development, please visit http://beagleboard.org. ...

Linux Outlaws 48 - LugRadio Live

(author unknown) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:49:24 PDT

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Beagle Board community members Koen and Mans interviewed around minute 52.

85:20 minutes, 39.1 MB — Download or play

In this special episode, Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch bring you interviews and coverage from LugRadio Live UK 2008.

Introduction (02:06)
For the first time ever, we are actually in a room together while recording a show. We tell you what we were up to at LugRadio Live UK 2008 and what we got for you in this show. Special thanks to Tony Whitmore from the Ubuntu UK podcast for lending us some equipment.

Interview: Neuros OSD (08:13)
We talk to Jerry and Matthew from the Neuros OSD community about their current model and the road ahead.

Interview: EfficientPC (14:38)
Dan interviews Dale from EfficientPC about the company.

Interview: OpenStreetMap (20:35)
Dan talks to Etienne and Andy from the OpenStreetMap project about what they are doing over there and how to get started in open source mapping.

Interview: Daniel James (37:27)
Dan interviews Daniel James from 64Studio about the distro and the Indamixx mobile music studio.

Interview: Beagle Board (52:06)
We interview the guys from the Beagle Board community about the product and their plans for it.

Interview: Jono Bacon & Stuart Langridge (55:50)
We have the honour to talk to Jono Bacon and Stuart “Aq” Langridge from LugRadio about the future of LRL and their plans after the end of LugRadio.

Wrap-Up (64:16)
We talk a bit more about the weekend and the feedback we got from listeners at the booth. We were quite tired after it all, so forgive us if we repeat ourselves a lot.

If you have any comments on the show, please leave them in the forums.

Song: Jack’s Playing Ball (The LugRadio Theme) by Jono Bacon

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Beagle Board Product Training Module provided by Digi-Key Corporation and Texas Instruments

(author unknown) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:06:38 PDT

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Learn about the Beagle Board...

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