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BeagleBoard on The Amp Hour and at ESC Boston

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:05:11 PDT

This week, I went on the Amp Hour with Chris, Dave and Jeff. We spoke about a lot of things BeagleBoard related, including the upcoming next revision of the BeagleBoard.

Also, I wanted to remind everyone that there will be new hands-on training at ESC Boston this month and full-conference attendees will get a free BeagleBoard-xM, TinCanTools Beacon Board and TI MSP430 Chronos watch.

Lastly, I'm still on the look-out for a new primary host for the BeagleCast podcast. I will be recording another episode next week with Khasim Syed Mohammed regarding the Android Rowboat project (hopefully), but I'm looking for someone who can volunteer to organize and record/publish the shows on a regular basis. The audio recording must be of higher quality than we've done in the past.

BeagleBoard turns 3.0!

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:07:49 PDT

Three years ago this week, Digi-Key announced the BeagleBoard. Since then, BeagleBoard-xM was launched and numerous other distributors have also signed up to deliver the BeagleBoard and BeagleBoard-xM all around the world.

Linux is turning 20 years old this year and Linus has released version 3.0. You can try 3.0 out on the BeagleBoard or BeagleBoard-xM prior to rev C and it should work for you pretty well. Support for xM rev C was merged after the 3.0 release for inclusion in 3.1. If you'd like to pull a patch set that gives you power management, 1GHz support and some other features not yet placed into the mainline yet, you can check out the patch set in the meta-texasinstruments OE repository. Koen also has also released a set of pre-build binaries and modules using these kernel patches if you want to try out a fairly full-featured 3.0 kernel build for the BeagleBoard/BeagleBoard-xM.

I haven't tried it out yet, but the Linaro 11.06 Android evaluation build also includes a 3.0 kernel for your BeagleBoard-xM.

Happy Beagle 3.0!!!!

BeagleCast 2011-05-06: Talking ARM with Greg K-H

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Tue, 10 May 2011 07:53:25 PDT

Today we interview Greg Kroah-Hartman and your hosts are Jason Kridner and Jeffery Osier-Mixon. Gerald will be back in two weeks.

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Links to the recordings

Links to show topics

Upcoming events

The Greg K-H interview is roughly the last 15 minutes.

Indiana Linuxfest and the CATCAN quadpod

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:35:38 PDT

I was at Indiana Linuxfest this weekend. A couple of BeagleBoard-xMs were raffled off in support of the conference and it seemed a lot of people were interested. I gave a brief talk about the BeagleBoard project, Mark Yoder from Rose-Hulman and his students gave hands-on training to those interested in the Hackerspace Village and we had a BeagleBoard.org table for part of Saturday.

On Friday before I left for the show, I got a package from CATCAN in Taiwan containing two BeagleBoard-based robots and not much else; certainly nothing else I understood. I left the hexpod at home to make sure it wasn't damaged and took the quadpod with me. Sitting at the table, a group gathered and we figured out what we thought was the right way to connect the battery. The first thing we noticed was this ominous shrill after applying power. As we sat nervously wondering what was going to happen when we applied power, one person sitting at the Linux in the Ham Shack table noted a resemblance of the bot to the evil metal spiders in Dr. Who.

We decided that the shrill was likely the fans in the servo motors. You can block it out after a while, but it is loud and frightening. There was some concern that this meant that the servos were under strain, especially given that the motors were all moving themselves in addition to the legs, but I'm pretty sure we ruled that out and it really is the fans.

Knowing from the CATCAN and BeagleBoard.tw websites that this bot was running Android, a random group of us sitting around the table decided to hook up a serial port and tried to figure out what made the bot move. Being Android without any additional GNU utilities in the file system, the shell can be a bit frustrating. We couldn't hit backspace or perform tab completion. However, obvious commands, like 'ls', 'cd' and 'cat' are there so we could go about our exploring.

One of the first files we found was a log in /data/dontpanic. We found that quite reassuring. Eventually we found /system/etc/init.hexapod.sh and the fact that it pointed to executing /data/test-long-time-hexapod. Sure enough, running that executable sent our bot back through its motions. Running it from the shell gave us a printout of 13 different numerical values--the same number of motors on the bot. Eventually, I'll need to figure out how to recharge this bot--unless I have somehow underestimated its capabilities. I'm still a bit away from figuring out how to give it my own directions, but I think I have a start now--thanks to the attendees of Indiana Linuxfest!

It wasn't all games on the show floor, I also enjoyed a few of the talks. I especially enjoyed the presentation on Open Hardware by Joshua Burton. I am anxious to figure out what I can do with a Bug or BeagleBoard and the realtime sensor data aggregator Panchube. Joshua also introduced me to the work of Rodney Brooks who, among other interesting things, contributes to Edge.

I also picked up a bit I didn't realize in the Ubuntu for ARM presentation by David Mandella. One thing that surprised me is that the 10.04 release for ARM isn't considered "LTS" or long term supported. David predicts that the 12.04 is likely to be the first LTS release for ARM. With the Linaro work on the device tree and lots of OMAP/BeagleBoard patches being accepted into the mainline Linux kernel, I expect that to be a stellar release for the BeagleBoard users out there.

The presentations were recorded, so hopefully I'll be able to provide an update with the recorded presentations.

Update (3/30/2011): Sog Yang gave me this link to find a charger: http://www.rc-airplanes-simplified.com/rc-battery-chargers.html

BeagleCast 2011-03-25: Super Jumbo

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:36:54 PDT

The theme of today's show is "Super Jumbo" and your hosts are Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon.

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Links to the recordings

Headline news

Windows Compact 7
Two new Distributors in China -- ChipSee -- CATCAN

From the RSS feed

FFmpeg fork becomes libav
Clojure on The Beagleboard -- What is a closure vs. what is Clojure?
The 2.6.38 kernel is out
What Is CLFS? - File System - Check!
OpenEmbedded at CeBIT 2011 -- Should we still be excited about CES and CeBIT?
Face chasing BeagleBoard-based robot using a Kinect
How to build QT Framework 4.7.2 and OpenCV 2.2 for Beagleboard-xM -- How to build sample program for capturing image from camera (OpenCV and Qt)
SPI with Trainer-xM
Running CyanogenMod on BeagleBoard -- What is CyanogenMod? -- What is Rowboat?
NEWS IGEPv2 goes Open Hardware
Open Hardware Summit date announced for 2011? -- Looking for votes on a logo
Beagleboard: Power usage (current draw) for certain scenarios

Upcoming events

Community activity

GSoC Update -- BeagleBoard.org not a mentoring organization this year -- Still looking for mentors to volunteer to mentor in other projects -- Considering a smaller scale BeagleBoard Summer of Code
Always Innovating Announcement...Super Jumbo Beagle Buffet!

Upcoming

Khasim Syed Mohammed will be on next week to discuss the Android Rowboat project

BeagleCast 2011-03-14: BeagleBoard-xM rev C

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:01:07 PDT

Today's hosts are Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon. Below are the show note links.

Links to the recordings

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From the RSS feed

Running a BeagleBoard off of Batteries
BeagleBoard cases with a MakerBot on Thingiverse
New SGX Graphics Driver Release 4.03.00.02 for Linux now available!
DVI-D to VGA converter for BeagleBoard-xM and issue to be fixed with the current BeagleBoardToys VGA adapter when using a BeagleBoard-xM
Kinect + BeagleBoard-xM (now need GLES)
Leverett and Wasson Win Texas Instruments Beagle Board Design Challenge
Toolchain, Check! Kernel, Check! - Cross Linux From Scratch

Twitter badge on the blog page

Upcoming events

Tweet @Jadon for free BeagleBoard hands-on training on March 26th at Indiana Linuxfest going on March 25-27
Linux Collaboration Summit on April 6-8
Embedded Linux Conference on April 11-13
Maker Faire Bay Area on May 21-22

BeagleBoard-xM Rev C HW and SW Update

New release candidate from Angstrom
FAT vs. ext2
boot.scr vs uEnv.txt change is not welcomed by all
Why won't old MLO and u-boot work with xM rev C?

Hot Topics on the BeagleBoard Google Group

Future topics and guests

The theme music for BeagleCast was created and provided by Alasdair Drake.

BeagleCast 2011-03-07: The inaugural podcast

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:00:28 PDT

Today's hosts are Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon. Below are the show note links.

Links to the recordings

To provide questions or suggestions:

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Jeff and Yocto

SD card discussion

BeagleBoard and electronics hobbyists of all ages

News from the BeagleBoard.org RSS feed and elsewhere

The theme music for BeagleCast was created and provided by Alasdair Drake.

Using Perl to read Linux events

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:28:44 PST

For a simple demo that played a movie on a BeagleBoard, I wanted to add a simple mechanism to start the movie over again if the USER button was pressed.

To read a Linux input event, it is as simple as just performing a read. The only trick to this for me, however, is that I wanted the read to timeout. This was resolved by using the Perl alarm() function can catching the signal within an eval().

I've uploaded a gist of my example play_movie.pl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$ENV{'DISPLAY'} = ":0.0";
system("xhost +");
#system("totem --quit");
#system("nice -n -5 totem --fullscreen /home/root/playlist.xml &");
$cmdline_start = "nice -n -5 mplayer /home/root/*.mov &";
system($cmdline_start);

open(FILE, "/dev/input/event0");
binmode(FILE);
while(1)
{
eval
{
local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die("Alarm!\n") };
alarm(60*28); # 28 minutes
read(FILE, $buf, 16);
alarm(0);
};
if($@)
{
printf("Restarting due to timeout\n");
#system("totem --next");
system("killall -15 mplayer");
sleep(1);
system("killall -9 mplayer");
sleep(1);
system($cmdline_start);
}
else
{
($time1, $time2, $type, $code, $value) = unpack("iissi", $buf);
printf("%f %05d %05d 0x%08x\n", $time1+$time2/1000000, $type, $code, $value);
if($code == 276 && $value == 1) # USER button pressed
{
printf("Restarting due to USER button press\n");
#system("totem --next");
system("killall -15 mplayer");
sleep(1);
system("killall -9 mplayer");
sleep(1);
system($cmdline_start);
}
}
}

Vote for the winner in the TI/UT BeagleBoard Design Challenge

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:48:02 PST

BeagleBoard UT Design Challenge!


TI and UT Austin students step up to the challenge
What is the most inventive thing that can be done on the BeagleBoard today? Students from the University of Texas at Austin have stepped up to the challenge to find new and unique ways to push the envelope, inspired by the BeagleBoard to break barriers of innovation. Which BeagleBoard-based design would you like to own? Vote for your favorite today! Voting takes place between January 27th – February 10th. To cast your vote, please view projects at ti.com/beagleboardchallenge.
Think you can do better? Visit beagleboard.org to begin your own development.

Looking for a college intern for this summer

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:39:28 PST

In the past, for job postings and other commercial solicitations around the BeagleBoard I've recommended utilizing the BeagleBoard LinkedIn group because I never went deeper than the page that said that the job board was free. As I tried to list my own opening, I found that it was going to cost me almost $200. Given that, I welcome anyone contacting me with information on cheaper ways to do job listings and other commercial solicitations related to BeagleBoard activities.

What I'm inquiring about here is to fill an ARM microprocessor community development team internship position at Texas Instruments for summer 2011. You can find other job opportunities at TI with TI's CareerBuilder site (try keyword "Linux") or at http://careers.ti.com.

Job Description
Serve the needs of open source software developers utilizing TI ARM-based microprocessors by advocating within TI, consolidating and communicating valuable information internally and externally, and solving technical and organizational challenges including patches to fix open source software bugs or functional gaps in software like u-boot, Linux, applications within GNU/Linux distributions and tools to build software systems. Producing written, recorded and interactive presentation materials to train technical and semi-technical audiences on utilization and extension of open hardware platforms, such as the BeagleBoard, is required. A public reputation in open source software development is highly desirable. Some travel required. On-line communication skills are a must. This position is potentially very flexible in hours and location as long as mastery of communications with the core team can be demonstrated. Other potential benefits include flexibility in software projects and resources of perhaps the largest volume ARM microprocessor supplier in the industry.

Minimal Skills Required

On-line communications
Conflict resolution
C and C++ programming
Shell scripting
Demonstrated knowledge in Linux, operating system and build system concepts
Software revision control management
Oral and written communications in English (additional languages are desirable, especially Japanese, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Hindi)

Company Description
Texas Instruments (TI) is a global analog and digital semiconductor IC design and manufacturing company. In addition to analog technologies, digital signal processing (DSP) and microcontroller (MCU) semiconductors, TI designs and manufactures semiconductor solutions for analog and digital embedded and application processing.

Where to send your information
Please send all TI ARM microprocessor community development job related queries to me with "JOB" in the subject heading and to my jkridner account on beagleboard.org.

BYOES at ESC Boston

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:48:30 PDT

Last chance to Register for BeagleBoard Workshop, Sept 20-21 at ESC Boston

The two-day embedding training at ESC Boston, with BeagleBoard.org and Microsoft, is rapidly approaching. Don’t miss your chance to learn how to develop with Windows Embedded Compact 7 on the BeagleBoard-xM, a community-driven single-board computer.

Register Now

September 20-21 at ESC Boston

Sessions are FREE to all paid conference attendees. BeagleBoards can be purchased for $150 during registration.

Participants will have access to BeagleBoard-xM and an SD card that contains the distributions for the classes as well as demos, tools and more.

To learn more about BeagleBoard-XM please visit us online.

Buy a BeagleBoard-xM Kit for only $150*

*Supply is limited.

Announcement from TI of BeagleBoard-xM hands-on training at ESC Chicago

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:41:24 PDT

Get hands-on training with the new BeagleBoard-xM, June 7-8 at ESC Chicago

Attend ESC Chicago, June 7 & 8, and get hands-on interactive training with the new BeagleBoard-xM and talk with industry experts as they give you all of the hardware, boot, and kernel basics required to start development immediately. Attendees will learn how to engage with the BeagleBoard developer community, as well as how to obtain and utilize the source code projects most fundamental to the boards functionality.

For those actively developing there will be targeted classes available addressing:

Streaming media
Graphical user interfaces
Embedded Linux
Android development for non-handset designs

Register Now for ESC Chicago

Sessions and kits are FREE to registered BeagleBoard workshop attendees. Arrive early, as space and board availability is limited.

Come and experiment with the BeagleBoard-xM to see what new ideas it sparks in you.

For more information or to order a BeagleBoard, please visit www.beagleboard.org
Click here to register for BeagleBoard classes at ESC Chicago.

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Six BeagleBoard.org GSoC projects launching

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:43:37 PDT

BeagleBoard.org was approved to mentor six (6) students during this year's Google as they execute their projects. The students, projects, and mentors are:

Christopher Friedt's project is NEON Support for FFTW. He is being mentored by Mans Rullgard. I'm proposing Philip Balister as a co-mentor. Christopher attends C.A.U. Kiel, Germany. You can follow his work at http://perpetual-notion.blogspot.com/.
Tobias Arrskog's project is Optimizing rendering of XBMC and aiding the port to ARM. He is being mentored by Mike Zucchi. I'm proposing Mans Rullgard and Søren Steen Christensen to assist as co-mentors. Tobias attends Lunds University, LTH. Sweden.
Yaman Umuroglu's project is RPC-like POSIX wrappers for DSPEasy. Yaman is mentored by Katie Roberts-Hoffman. I'm proposing Laine Walker-Avina and Frank Walzer to assist as co-mentors. Yaman attends Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Varun Jewalikar's project is a High level interface to exploit the Pulse Width Modulation abilities of the BeagleBoard. Varun is being mentored by Søren Steen Christensen. I'm proposing Cristina Murillo to assist as a co-mentor, but I'll be looking to see if we can add a co-mentor in India. Varun attends Delhi College of Engineering in India.
Nicolas Boichat's project is a USB sniffer on Beagle Board. Nicolas is being mentored by Hunyue Yau. I'm proposing Laine Walker-Avina and Frans Meulenbroeks to assist as co-mentors. Nicolas is finishing his Masters at EPFL (Switzerland).
Pramod Poudel's project is OpenCV DSP Acceleration. Pramod is being mentored by Leonardo Estevez. I'm proposing Katie Roberts-Hoffman and Luis Gustavo Lira to assist as co-mentors. Pramod attends University of Texas at Tyler, Texas, USA.

Thanks all for each of the roughly 60 proposals submitted to BeagleBoard.org!! I hope that you'll continue to participate and will consider submitting a proposal again next year. There's been a bit of a lag in the weekly sponsored projects. Boards should be in the GSoC students' hands this week, so I hope that you register your project there to still have the opportunity to get a board and execute your idea.

From the GSoC timeline, we are currently in the Community Bonding Period and very close to launching our projects:

Community Bonding Period:	Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects.

May 24:	Students begin coding for their GSoC projects; Google begins issuing initial student payments provided tax forms are on file and students are in good standing with their communities.

Every student should be in contact with his/her mentor and co-mentors on a regular basis. This Monday, May 17th will be an all-hands meeting on #beagle at 14:00 UTC / 10AM EDT.

P.S. Mentors registered with GSoC, please contact me if I don't have the roles defined adequately--I don't mind adding additional co-mentors.

Ubuntu image writer simplifies getting start using the BeagleBoard

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:07:33 PDT

If you happen to have a 2GB SD card and you are thinking about trying the Angstrom demo that Koen has created but are scared of all the partitioning, formatting, and copying instructions you are finding on the web, then I hope I'm about to share some joy with you.

Ubuntu now distributes a tool for writing images onto USB sticks and SD cards for the purpose of evaluating Ubuntu. For those of us who use Linux on a daily basis, it serves largely the same purpose as the 'dd' command, but it runs in Windows and Mac OS X as well and has a GUI to help prompt you along the way. You can get the tool from:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromImgFiles

Additionally, Koen, a maintainer for the Angstrom Distribution, has produced an image under his demo directory at:

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/sd-images/2gb/

You'll still need a tool to uncompress the image (which is Bzip2 compressed), but the rest should be mostly self-explanatory. Hopefully other distributions will follow and more SD images will be available soon!

BeagleBoard.org in Google Summer of Code!

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:02:55 PDT

BeagleBoard.org has been listed as one of the accepted mentoring organizations for the Google Summer of Code 2010!!!

Over 365 organizations applied and we are among the 150 lucky Free and Open Source projects that were accepted. About 1,000 students are expected to have their project proposals accepted and Google will be providing US$5,000 to every student and US$500 to the mentoring organization for every successfully completed project. Texas Instruments will be providing BeagleBoard hardware through the BeagleBoard.org Sponsored Projects Program. TinCanTools has offered to provide Zippy boards to students using those in their projects.

Now is the time for mentors (people who would like to assist the students), to sign up on the GSoC2010 site and to update the ideas list. It is also the time for students to get familiar with the BeagleBoard.org project and community before applications begin being accepted on March 29, so be sure to hang out on the #gsoc and #beagle channels on irc.freenode.net.

Spread the good news and bring on the projects!!!

Several OMAP/Beagle patches land upstream for Linux 2.6.33

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:31:19 PST

I'm feeling pretty happy and excited today looking at the patches Linus Torvalds has recently merged into the Linux kernel mainline, such as a huge patch set from Tony Lindgren[1]. I'm particularly happy to see that DSS2 is there[2], so there shouldn't be any more confusion about what display driver to use on OMAP. The USB EHCI (host port) driver also finally got merged[5]. I also see a large number of power management patches being included.

Baseline support for several OMAP3 systems has also been included, including the Always Innovating Touch Book[3], AM3517 EVM[6], IGEPv2[7], CM-T35[8], OMAP3630 Zoom-3[9] and some updates for the OpenPandora[4]. Many of the OMAP3 development boards[10] and open development platforms are still not listed or easy to find in the Kconfig descriptions or board instance files.

A large number of bug fixes are also included.

It typically takes Linus 2-3 weeks to put together the first release candidate. After that, it typically takes 2-3 months to hammer out the bugs enough to make the the release. I'm looking forward to seeing great testing and contributions from the OMAP and BeagleBoard communities following the release of Linux 2.6.33-rc1!!

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9c3936cb694ffd559c80dc3eb75b61f769a39259
[2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/arm/OMAP/DSS
[3] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7a079cab4632265fc87ee483daf57879d5dd87f2
[4] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=8d88f7f70cca3fa6aabac287fccd40cebacb92d1
[5] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=54ab2b02ef6a454b4cca969f546d0dd43fec7308
[6] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c625327e2f5a506a89563e14ed837c82fa61548f
[7] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=58e111621d402d41cb0cabae7c532d6194b7d943
[8] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2886d128d8ff83af88b9cbe6dbf7f0d2bbee8d76
[9] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=5f35fbe8b8a05743fb9686e33194a126cd4273f6
[10] http://wiki.omap.com/index.php?title=OMAP3_Boards

Videos of intro to Nov 17th community lightning talks and all the Aug 27th talks

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:43:42 PST

See the full list of movies in the YouTube playlist. They include OMAP3-based open platforms like the Always Innovating Touch Book and the Oregon State ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) OSWALD, software frameworks running on OMAP3 like Gnome, Ubuntu, GStreamer, and QNX Neutrino, projects for open software defined radio (SDR), hardware projects to expand Beagle with LCDs and Ethernet, the DM355-based open camera project LeopardBoard.org, and new applications like the PicoFlamingo presentation system.

To see the slides or join the Nov 17th event, visit the wiki page. Enjoy!

NEON training

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:43:41 PDT

One of the most important aspects of the BeagleBoard.org community is that I'm mostly irrelevant. This means that I'm not a bottleneck to the important things that happen in the community. Unfortunately, it also means that I'm also not always in-the-loop on great events coming up that utilize the BeagleBoard and getting the word out to everyone on-time. Even so, I imagine a lot of you are going to the ARM Techcon3 and can make use of this nice litte bit of hands-on training using the BeagleBoard that I learned about from Ken Havens:

Turning the NEON Light On (Hands-on Workshop)
Wednesday, Oct 21 3:00pm - 4:30pm
TechMart: San Jose room

Friday, Oct 23 10:00am - 11:30am
TechMart: San Jose room

This seminar will be a hands-on introduction to NEON (the SIMD extension on Cortex-A processors) using Beagleboards running Ubuntu Linux. Attendees should be software engineers with some prior experience of armcc or gcc with an interest in low-level software optimizations.

Beagleboard in India costs 3500 Rupees less ...

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:59:51 PDT

It is great to know that IDA systems will be shipping beagleboards in India for just Rs 8999 http://www.idasystems.net/beagle_board

In the past beagleboards were available for 12500 Rs, thanks for Gerald Coley, CircuitCo and IDA to work together in getting the cost down for India.

IDA systems is also announced as official distributor for Beagleboards http://beagleboard.org/buy. So any one in India can get local support for beagleboards and shipping should be fast with no lead times like before.

Good Luck to IDA and beagle board India users.

Regards,
Khasim

http://hawkboard.wordpress.com/
http://hawkboard.org/

Beagle Clinic India : August Event - an update

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:03:14 PDT

Beagle Clinic India was held at Texas Instruments campus on 29th Aug 2009. More details about participants and the technology discussed please click the link below,
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard/bangalore_user_meet#Beagle_Clinic_India
Few action items that were taken during the meet with probable solutions are given below :
- USB HOST hangs when multiple devices are connected – OE kernel
need to post this query to linux-omap-vger kernel mailing list and get the support
- SGX training online – NON angstrom distribution
Girish is helping on generating this training content should be available by early next week.
- LCD board for Beagle
No support yet.
- Operating frequency for 600Mhz
This is possible with PM brach, echo 5 > /sys/power/vdd1_lock
- Arrange one hands on Gstreamer and SGX sessions
In next beagle clinic we can take up one of these.
- A wiki page for QT to get it working on beagleboard
Need to find a voluteer for this.
I have taken other inputs on cleaning up the code.google.com/p/beagleboard, sorry due to multiple things was not able to do this, it should be done by end of next week.
Other topics discussed were
Leopard: to support mmc boot support in u-boot, will have to check this out.
Devkit (with answers) :
- USB Host not working : will be resolved by embest in next two months.
- Audio and board hang : embest will test can get back
- WinCE images not working: Give more details to embest
- Support : embest is considering supporting the team on beagle mailing list
- Camera module: Not available for customers
I will be in Pune for trainings on OMAP L , DM355 leopard and beagleboard on Sept 24th and Sept 25th, I am not sure if I can co-ordinate the beagle clinic this month also we long weekend holidays coming up next month, please suggest an alternat date for the same.
Next event :
- Hands on training with SGX modules
- Show case OMAP L 138 platform (ia)
- Get some one on call to discuss USB issues.
- If possible get gstreamer hands on training.
Kindly note this event is mainly meant to fix and solve issues we are facing with beagleboard, leopard board and other community platforms.

Thanks to attendees, lets keep this going to make things easier with beagle board.

Khasim
khasim@beagleboard.org

Beagle Board at ESC Boston

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:15:58 PDT

The Beagle Board is back at ESC Boston! There will be a user's group meeting following the training sessions. There is a two-hour hands-on introduction and 3 hands-on classes featuring Android, DSP-accelerated audio/video, and use of the 3D graphics accelerator. Classes are free for ESC attendees with a $99 setup fee to get access to a lab station if you bring your own Beagle Board and $299 to get a new Beagle Board with the class.

For more information, visit http://beagleboard.org/esc.

On-line Community Lightning Talks and Hands-on Training

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:41:47 PDT

To complement its $99 world-wide Tech Days 2009 program, TI is putting on a new free, on-line event called eTech Days (http://www.ti.com/etechdays). It is a full day of interactivity and problem-solving on Thursday, August 27 2009.

As just one part of this event, open source community developers are invited to present on their on-going activities and drive discussion on the #beagle IRC channel on Freenode. For more information or to register a talking slot, visit the wiki information page at: http://wiki.omap.com/index.php/ETechDays_Community_Lightning_Talks.

Also, if you haven't already heard, the Beagle Board is back at ESC Boston! Sign up for hands-on training today at: http://esc-boston.techinsightsevents.com/ti_beagleboard.

PicoFlamingo wins a Zoom-II for work in the BeagleBoard.org Sponsored Projects Program

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:15:27 PDT

Futuristic and innovative ideas pay off in the form of a sweet device! Congrats to the PicoFlamingo team for thinking outside of the box with their BeagleBoard-based portable presentation system and winning a monthly prize in the Sponsored Projects Program for their excellent progress. They have been awarded the OMAP 3 based Zoom II Mobile Development Platform to help pioneer more of their inventions and can’t wait to see what they do to improve their Pink Egg.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to win a BeagleBoard and/or one of the monthly prizes – visit beagleboard.org/contest to learn how to submit ideas and keep the mailing list and your RSS feed up-to-date with your progress.

A successful Beagle Clinic program in India -May 2009

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:01:56 PDT

Hello all,

I am really sorry to update this after a while, was totally lost in my new lost cost board that is coming up with OMAP L 13x (ARM9 and Floating point DSP).

Beagle Clinic: A monthly Beagleboard consultation forum, an open event organized last Saturday of every month.

I was very happy to receive a very good set of beagle users across south India and a good set of faculty members from MSRAS.

Though I wanted to start on the problems and fix the same, it took us a while to train the new beagle board joinees, we concluded the session with beagle board bring up, rev c validation, OMAP3 TRM understanding and action plans.

I took a log of action items that we have to address,

Give info on DVI-Touch module with drivers - this looks expensive to go for in India.
Start workout sessions - take a problem and fix it
No another user group mailing list for India, mail to beagle discussion list with subject [BeagleClinic]
Discuss topics for the training on mailing list
Android specific training
Android event / training will be a paid event for future investment on boards and trainings.
Work with Cranes to enable - Buy board on the spot and accessories in next event.
Identify some distributors for beagle clones and buddies

Status of action items:

1 to 4 :- will be taken care.

5:- I want to schedule google android event in July as June will be difficult to manage, I think July 18th 2009 will be good.

6:- We have to fix a price for this event.

7:- Cranes is still short of boards, will still work with them, atleast they will be able to get accessories for the spot.

8:- I found embest boards bit useful and more complete for India market, http://www.armkits.com/Product/devkit8000.asp, I had initial talks with our China counterparts, I am also looking for Distributors in India who can purchase these boards in volume to reduce the shipping cost. We also have option to manufacture beagle boards in India, but again need to find a investor and distributor. If you happen to know one then let me know.

Frangline Jose and Abhishek Jacob have volunteered to train us on DSP Link, CE and Codec integration, I will have to schedule this activity, will happen in July 2nd or 3rd week.

The attendees and other details of the event are below. Thanks for all your support. Let's ensure that we fix problems and move forward with beagleboard.org.

There are lot of free board programs, I request students and hobbyists in India to leverage the
http://beagleboard.org/contest

Event details:

Details for May event
Date : May 30, 2009 (Saturday)
Time : 10.00 AM – 4.00 PM
Venue: MS Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies,
Gnanagangothri Campus, New B.E.L. Road, M.S.R. Nagar
Bangalore- 560 054

Attendees
Radha Krishna. S.
Raghavendran. N.
Prasad Rao
Vishal Bhoj [attended]
Amit Pundir [attended]
Subbu (irc: kozak)[attended]
Bharath S V
Madan Y C
Manjunath K R
Manjunath R V
Anand Shankar Kahaly [attended]
HarishKumar.V
Arun C.Giriyapur
Chandrakant N. Shet
Jomcy Pappachen
Rajan B
Sriram.N
Arindam Ghosh
S R Santhosh
R.Lakshmikanth
Vasanth Kumar B
Prasanth Unnikrishnan

Volunteers
Syed Mohammed Khasim (khasim@beagleboard.org, Viral Sachde ( viral at sachde dot com irc: virals ) , Jayaramudu, GirishBisto, Abhishek Jacob

In picture below, Yogesh Marathe - explaining DSP link usage to audience.

Thanks.

Khasim.

Beagleboard Design Contest INDIA Edition

beaglecast@beagleboard.org (Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:58:37 PDT

Here is an exciting opportunity for students and professionals in India to showcase there talent on creating innovating applications with beagleboard.

ARM, Texas Instruments and Cranes have jointly come forward with this initiative called beagle board design contest with exciting prizes and recognitions like certificates, speaker slots, presentations, etc.

More information on this contest can be found here

http://www.cranessoftware.com/services/training/beagledesigncontest.html

Feel free to mail khasim@beagleboard.org for any queries or clarifications for this contest.

For any discussions please use beagle IRC and discussion list.

Good Luck

Khasim

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