Requisite Stuffs for the BeagleBone AI Board

journeyoflifethis is a good power adapter because it is 5 ft and 18 AWG cable.

https://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-Power-Supply-USB-C/dp/B07TYQRXTK/ref=asc_df_B07TYQRXTK/?tag=bingshoppinga-20&li…

The official Raspberry Pi 4 power supply has a 4.9 ft. (1.5m) cable and also uses 18 AWG wire. It is a 3A power supply and the one you link to is 3.5A so it has an advantage there.

With a 3A - 3.5A power supply you need 18 AWG wire!

I second the CanaKit Power supply.  I got the one with the extra switch adapter though.

For the fan, I got the X15 Fan Kit which seems to fit perfectly on the heat sink.

Also, a Logitech C920 USB camera would be handy if you plan to the run through the TIDL example:

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Widescreen-Calling-Recording-Desktop/dp/B006JH8T3S/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=77653062118396&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=logitech+webcam+hd+pro+c920&qid=1571721810&sr=8-1

Hi, I have beagle bone AI. It gets heated very hot even with the fan attached. No heavy processing just by powering up.

Hello Sharath N,

Thank you for letting me know your actual usage experience.

It seems too early to apply the Beaglebone AI board to real applications.

I do not understand that the BeagleBone Foundation does not yet have a cooling solution for the board.

I recently became interested in an embedded Linux system and Beaglebone board to take advantage of my HW and SW knowledge.

Of course I'm interested in AI.

So I tried to buy the latest BeagleBone AI board as much as possible, but I think it would be more realistic to buy a BeagleBone Black Wireless board instead.

Thank you for your information.

Regarding the X15 fan kit, does the fan system properly cool the working board?

In this discussion there is a bash script I wrote to read the BeagleBone Ai temperatures. You might find it useful.

https://www.element14.com/community/message/283031/l/reading-beaglebone-ai-temperatures#283031

I have the fan so it blows on the heat sink and with normal use the cores run below 35C. I do have the latest updates on the board though.

The following I found on the web somewhere and will show the core temps which I placed in a script:

paste <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/type) <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp) | column -s $'\t' -t | sed 's/\(.\)..$/.\1°C/'

$ ./get_temp.sh 
cpu_thermal     35.0°C
gpu_thermal     34.5°C
core_thermal    35.0°C
dspeve_thermal  33.0°C

This is what is seen with the same script on a RasPi 4 with a good set of heat sinks and a larger fan than the X15FANKIT.

$ ./get_temp.sh 
cpu-thermal  36.9°C

The connector for power is USB-C so make sure you have one otherwise the fun will stop for a few days