BeagleBone Blue at Maker Faire Bay Area 2017

1. Maker Faire Bay Area 2017
BeagleBone Blue
Drew Fustini
BeagleBoard.org Foundation
drew@beagleboard.org
https://www.slideshare.net/DrewFustini/beaglebone-blue-at-maker-faire-2017

2. Meet BeagleBone Blue
Jason Kridner
Co-Founder of BeagleBoard.org
and co-creator of BeagleBone
jkridner@beagleboard.org

3. BeagleBone’s Evoution
• Born from mobile phone processor technology
• Designed specifically for industrial applications
• Power, develop and debug over a single USB cable
• Shipped with Debian GNU/Linux and Cloud9 IDE
• Built-in microcontrollers and peripherals for hard-real time
BeagleBone BeagleBone Black BeagleBone BlueBeagleBone Black Wireless

4. Even More at http://bbb.io/logo
BeagleBone BeagleBone Black BeagleBone BlueBeagleBone Black Wireless
bbb.io/green
bbb.io/green-wireless
bbb.io/enhanced bbb.io/air bbb.io/ghiosddev bbb.io/usomiq
bbb.io/e14-bbbi
bbb.io/arrowbbbi

5. BeagleBone: The Original
• AM3358 processor with multiple CPUs
– ARM Cortex-A8 @ 720-MHz to 1-GHz
• Superscalar CPU running Linux
• NEON vector floating-point accelerator
– ARM Cortex-M3
• Power management and security functions
– 2×200-MHz RISC Programmable Real-time Units (PRU)
– SGX530 3D graphics accelerator
• Storage
– 256MB RAM
– microSD card slot
• Connectivity
– USB client with built-in serial and JTAG adapter
– 10/100 Ethernet
– USB host
– 46-pin multifunction cape headers
• Family of daughterboards from 3rd parties
• 65×GPIO, 7×AIN (1.8V), 8×PWM, 4×timer, 4×UART,
2×I2C, LCD, 2×SPI, 3×QEP and much more

6. BeagleBone Black: The Standard
• ARM Cortex-A8 speed at 1-GHz
• Increased RAM from 256MB to 512MB
• Removed hardware USB-to-serial/JTAG
• Added 2 on-board cape functions
– 4-GB eMMC flash storage
– microHDMI adapter for video/audio output
• Price and static power consumption dropped
• Still the most popular BeagleBone
– Sales continue to increase as used in more and more
projects

7. BeagleBone Black Wireless
• Integrated around 150 components into a single easy to
design-around system-in-package (SIP) from Octavo
Systems
• Migrated design from Orcad to Autodesk EAGLE
• Swapped 10/100 Ethernet for WiFi/Bluetooth integrated
module
– 802.11n (with b/g support)
– Bluetooth 4.1 with Bluetooth low-energy

8. Robotics Cape
• Designed at UCSD by James Strawson
• Used in hundreds of student projects
• On fourth revision
• Supported by ‘libroboticscape’ software
– C library
– Examples for all major functions
• Features
– 2-cell LiPo support with balancing and LED power
gauge
– 9-18V charger input
– 4 DC motor & 8 servo outputs,
4 quadrature encoder inputs
– 9 axis IMU, barometer
– Easy connect JST interfaces for: I2C, SPI, UART,
CAN, GPIOs, GPS, DSM2 radio, power, ADC
– User-programmable LEDs and buttons
strawsondesign.com

9. Wireless + Robotics Cape = Blue
• Combines Wireless and cape
• 4 layer PCB
– Designed in Autodesk EAGLE
• In mass production, lowering cost
• Simplifies system configuration
• Added CAN interface

10. BeagleBone Blue

11. Meet BeagleBone Blue
BeagleBone Blue walkthrough
by Jason Kridner:
https://youtu.be/GxmjygZlnJw

12. Meet BeagleBone Blue
Autodesk EAGLE webinar by Jason Kridner:
See the new BeagleBone Blue in Action!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yMhZRutjHSI

17. ●
Want these slides?
https://www.slideshare.net/DrewFustini
/beaglebone-blue-at-maker-faire-2017
●
BeagleBoard.org mailing list:
– beagleboard.org/discuss

18. ●
BeagleBone Blue information:
beagleboard.org/blue
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BeagleBone Blue repository:
github.com/beagleboard/
beaglebone-blue
– Wiki has Accessories page lists cables, motors,
chassis, batteries, power supply, and more