Hardware Podcasts

110: Happiness Is a Warm Puppy

Embedded.fm · 22 Jul 2015 · 1h 24m

What this episode covers

Jason Kridner of Texas Instruments and the BeagleBoard.org Foundation discusses his new O'Reilly book, 'BeagleBone Cookbook: Software and Hardware Problems and Solutions,' and the open-source BeagleBone ecosystem. He details the hardware's real-time capabilities, including the use of Xenomai, the Linux PREEMPT_RT patch, and the Programmable Real-Time Units (PRUs) for deterministic control. Kridner also covers the foundation's role in education, Google Summer of Code projects like BeaglePilot and OpenROV, and upcoming hardware like the BeagleBone Green and BeagleBoard-X15.

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Products
BeagleBone Black, BeagleBone Cookbook, OpenROV, BeagleBone Green, BeagleBoard-X15, Project Ara, BeagleSat
Chips
PRU
Tools
Xenomai, Machine Kit, Ardupilot, RTEMS

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