New PocketBeagle Capes announced at Embedded World 2019

Thanks for sharing Jon Morss jomoenginer I feel pretty bad now that I haven’t got a chance to lay my hands on the Beagle board ecosystem. May be soon should try!

Nice.  I was wondering when the next beaglebone would be announced.  I'm looking forward to the big jump in processing Jason mentioned for the "Beaglebone AI".  I guess it's too early for him to give us any specifics?  Number of CPU cores, amount of RAM?  Details about the "accelerators"?

The new capes from beagleboard are useful too.  It's been difficult lately to find information about the capes that do exist.  The new capes he describe sound like they are focused on industrial uses, they will complement the BB Industrial board.  I'm pleasantly surprised one of the capes will handle 4-20 mA signals.

Allen

Ok. Here's a  bit of information.

From  hothardware.com

Texas Instruments AM5729 SoC (ARM Cortex-A15 based). With that comes 1GB of RAM, 16GB of eMMC flash, Wi-Fi, GbE, a USB-A host and USB-C for power.

Oh.  I should have known: Shabaz would have all the information here on e14, and I missed it until now:

Another BeagleBone - BeagleBone AI!

And following those links, there's even a hidden beaglebone.org page showing a preview:

https://beagleboard.org/ai

I'd been checking the "Discover Boards" link at beaglebone.org, but there was no obvious link.

Hi Allen!

I've been google'ing for more info too, but can't locate more detail for the board (they'll be releasing schematics soon), so for now I've been trying to see what the AM5729 supports, it's quite exciting the amount of features in there.. Also trying to read just at a very high level about TI Deep Learning (TIDL) which this BB-AI will support, using some of its accelerator processors (EVE and DSP). There is a video showing an example use-case here:

https://e2e.ti.com/support/processors/f/791/t/710226?TDA3-Our-TIDL-car-detection-on-TDA3X-are-there-any-methods-to-incre…

Now I'm getting excited.  They posted a few more bullet points about the board.

     BeagleBoard.org - AI

They confirm that the cost will be around $100, not $200.  That's a reasonable price for what we'll get.

It looks like "AI" is the new area for single board computers.  Nvidia has this coming this year:

     https://devblogs.nvidia.com/jetson-nano-ai-computing/

Quad core ARM A57, and 128 core GPU, 4 GB RAM.

Sparkfun seems to think this board will be only $99. (but we don't know when it would be a shipping product):

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15297

Hi Allen,

I've been looking forward to seeing this.. it's definitely an amazing time for high-performance computing at low-cost.

I heard they gave out some samples to people this week, but I saw last night on the NVIDIA UK site it won't ship till June, although Seeed had an 'estimated' date of 12th April.

So, I've not ordered it yet, since I was not sure if that April date was correct or not (I'll send them an e-mail to ask..).

Apparently the April date is accurate!

I guess I moved this discussion off topic, not sure if that's ok.  But the discussion did seem related.  Shabaz, I found the link at Seeed, now this page says April 4 availability.

https://www.seeedstudio.com/NVIDIA-Jetson-Nano-Development-Kit-p-2916.html