Product Showcase: BeaglePlay, the Latest From BeagleBoard.org, Offers a Vast Array of Hardware and Software Options

March 13, 2023

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The BeagleBoard.org Foundation continues to roll out new platforms. The latest, BeaglePlay, is what the group is calling the most adaptable open-source performance platform available. It’s built on the organization’s proven open-source Linux approach and has a feature set that includes built-in wired and wireless connectivity and the ability to connect to a host of sensor and prototyping systems with a range of options and interfaces.

BeaglePlay leverages the Texas Instruments Sitara AM6254 microprocessor, with quad 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 cores, as well as low-latency microcontroller subsystems, and a dedicated TI Simplelink CC1352 wireless microcontroller. Hence, beginner and experienced developers can take advantage of a wide variety of application libraries and examples from Linux, Zephyr, MicroPython, and numerous other open-source frameworks to add an endless array of sensors, actuators, indicators and new connectivity options.

BeaglePlay software features a customized BeagleBoard.org Debian Linux image with desktop pre-installed along with features such as Wi-Fi access point and BeagleConnect gateway functionality, supporting quick and flexible development options. Its feature set enables connectivity to a wide selection of sensor and prototyping systems, display and camera connectors, and as interfaces with memory and processing performance in a low-cost solution.

The list of potential applications includes:

• Industrial human-machine interface (HMI)
• Retail and POS automation
• 3D point Cloud systems
• Vision analytics
• Vehicle and drone infrastructure
• 3D Reconfigurable Display Systems
• Medical equipment
• Smart buildings and Edge AI
• web3 distributed infrastructure

 Representatives from BeagleBoard.org will be on-site at embedded world 2023. Contact them to learn or to see a live demo.