BeagleV

I spotted that on twitter today too. Looks interesting. It's still a bit early to tell if it's be useful though.

I also noticed this today as well, I've asked if we're going to carry and sell this board, with any accessories.

Early discussions on groups about it are whether or not it's as open source as it claims to be, and what documentation's available.

The capabilities of it look sufficiently scalable, running in a kind of basic mode you can probably use the board 'as is' but getting it to do anything intensely heavy and you'll need added cooling or something to wick away the thermal properties.

looks like a decently capable board, spotted on twitter as well.

It is open source, but I did recall arturo182 (the guy who makes solder party stuff) did mention about a closed source, patented connector.

It's neat that there will both a small RISC-V based SBC alternative along with the more powerful HiFive Unmatched mini-ITX desktop board in 2021 This is great news for Linux on RISC-V.

It's also interesting that they put a lot of machine learning peripherals into the Beagle-V, especially when it has two camera interfaces supporting 4K30FPS sensors. So I'm hopeful that it will be a good and more open alternative to the nVidia Jetson boards.

It also seems to be a big step for the BB organisation. They originated from TI incrowd.

Now sporting a different brand of processor core, that's a change.

I suspect there's a bit of a shake up going on considering arm is being purchased by nvidia.

I believe you can preorder one of these from Seeed Studio: https://beaglev.seeed.cc/

Expected March/April 2021

Also found this nice write up: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/beaglev-risc-v-board-for-linux

It's likely Farnell will be distributing the boards made by Seeed.

I figured I'd hijack this threat to mention... I'm going to be getting hold of some of these boards this year and they're 'beta' boards - for those who're prepared to do some work with it, get to grips with the product early and they're interested in providing some support and development for a RISC based processor board.

We'll probably offer some of these up for a RoadTest but I'm interested in helping out to get this product off the ground a bit more, often there've been some teething issues with BeagleBone boards and their support and feedback for being in people's hands and those wishing they'd had one earlier so they could help out - at least I'd hope so.

If there're people who have the embedded hardware knowledge to get to grips with kit like this, and they're interested in working with it, and working with it early. Then I'd be interested in hearing from you. I'd likely do  separate post about this as well but figured I'd gauge interest here first

cstanton  wrote:

... If there're people who have the embedded hardware knowledge to get to grips with kit like this, and they're interested in working with it, and working with it early. Then I'd be interested in hearing from you. ....

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