A successful Beagle Clinic program in India -May 2009

Hello all,

I am really sorry to update this after a while, was totally lost in my new lost cost board that is coming up with OMAP L 13x (ARM9 and Floating point DSP).

Beagle Clinic: A monthly Beagleboard consultation forum, an open event organized last Saturday of every month.

I was very happy to receive a very good set of beagle users across south India and a good set of faculty members from MSRAS.

Though I wanted to start on the problems and fix the same, it took us a while to train the new beagle board joinees, we concluded the session with beagle board bring up, rev c validation, OMAP3 TRM understanding and action plans.

I took a log of action items that we have to address,

1. Give info on DVI-Touch module with drivers - this looks expensive to go for in India.
2. Start workout sessions - take a problem and fix it
3. No another user group mailing list for India, mail to beagle discussion list with subject [BeagleClinic]
4. Discuss topics for the training on mailing list
5. Android specific training
6. Android event / training will be a paid event for future investment on boards and trainings.
7. Work with Cranes to enable - Buy board on the spot and accessories in next event.
8. Identify some distributors for beagle clones and buddies

Status of action items:

1 to 4 :- will be taken care.

5:- I want to schedule google android event in July as June will be difficult to manage, I think July 18th 2009 will be good.

6:- We have to fix a price for this event.

7:- Cranes is still short of boards, will still work with them, atleast they will be able to get accessories for the spot.

8:- I found embest boards bit useful and more complete for India market, http://www.armkits.com/Product/devkit8000.asp, I had initial talks with our China counterparts, I am also looking for Distributors in India who can purchase these boards in volume to reduce the shipping cost. We also have option to manufacture beagle boards in India, but again need to find a investor and distributor. If you happen to know one then let me know.

Frangline Jose and Abhishek Jacob have volunteered to train us on DSP Link, CE and Codec integration, I will have to schedule this activity, will happen in July 2nd or 3rd week.

The attendees and other details of the event are below. Thanks for all your support. Let's ensure that we fix problems and move forward with beagleboard.org.

There are lot of free board programs, I request students and hobbyists in India to leverage the
http://beagleboard.org/contest

Event details:

Details for May event
Date : May 30, 2009 (Saturday)
Time : 10.00 AM – 4.00 PM
Venue: MS Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies,
Gnanagangothri Campus, New B.E.L. Road, M.S.R. Nagar
Bangalore- 560 054

Attendees
Radha Krishna. S.
Raghavendran. N.
Prasad Rao
Vishal Bhoj [attended]
Amit Pundir [attended]
Subbu (irc: kozak)[attended]
Bharath S V
Madan Y C
Manjunath K R
Manjunath R V
Anand Shankar Kahaly [attended]
HarishKumar.V
Arun C.Giriyapur
Chandrakant N. Shet
Jomcy Pappachen
Rajan B
Sriram.N
Arindam Ghosh
S R Santhosh
R.Lakshmikanth
Vasanth Kumar B
Prasanth Unnikrishnan

Volunteers
Syed Mohammed Khasim (khasim@beagleboard.org, Viral Sachde ( viral at sachde dot com irc: virals ) , Jayaramudu, GirishBisto, Abhishek Jacob

In picture below, Yogesh Marathe - explaining DSP link usage to audience.

Thanks.

Khasim.

Beagleboard Design Contest INDIA Edition

Here is an exciting opportunity for students and professionals in India to showcase there talent on creating innovating applications with beagleboard.

ARM, Texas Instruments and Cranes have jointly come forward with this initiative called beagle board design contest with exciting prizes and recognitions like certificates, speaker slots, presentations, etc.

More information on this contest can be found here

http://www.cranessoftware.com/services/training/beagledesigncontest.html

Feel free to mail khasim@beagleboard.org for any queries or clarifications for this contest.

For any discussions please use beagle IRC and discussion list.

Good Luck

Khasim

A pair of EDN Innovation winners

The "OMAP35x Application Processor" and the "Beagle Board Embedded Linux Development Board" were both winners of tonight's EDN Innovation 2008 awards for their respective categories of "Microprocessors" and "Software/Embedded Tools". It was a great evening, with several great products recognized and it was nice to have our products among those. It was a great way to follow up a successful day of hands-on classes at the Embedded Systems Conference on the BeagleBoard. Too bad Boris wasn't there to accept the honors himself. :)

Rev C available for Silicon Valley BeagleBoard User's Group meeting

Rev C2 is available now! Same part number at Digi-Key and the same price!

• Twice the RAM (256MB, instead of 128MB)
• High-speed-only dedicated-host USB port with standard A-type connector
• LCD expansion header

All of the Rev B units sold out, so all new orders will be filled with Rev C units which are already in stock. The timing worked out perfectly with the last Rev B units being sold the day after the Rev C units arrived.

All of this is just-in-time for our Silicon Valley BeagleBoard Users' Group meeting being held immediately following the Embedded Systems Conference. We'll be enjoying a few beers and discussing the BeagleBoard.org sponsored project program. The meeting will be held in room B1 in the convention center right after the show closes at 4 PM, Thursday, April 2nd. Join us in the ESC Theater an hour earlier for a chance to win a BeagleBoard and a Tektronix scope. Hope to see you there!

ESC Build Your Own Embedded System online registration deadline 3/25

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ESC BYOES online registration closes on 3/25. Register & get a new Rev C for the Beagle Board labs covering Android, 3D UIs, DSP-accelerated GStreamer, adding Bluetooth, and more. Only $199 to add the BYOES sessions to your ESC registration or just $595 for a special Beagle Board Days Pass.

See http://esc-sv09.techinsightsevents.com/byoes for details and to register.

Software design contest #2 (in 3D)

Congratulations again to Antti Seppanen for his BeagleBot and Diego Dompe for his support of usbtty in the Beagle u-boot on winning Beagle Board Rev C boards in the last software design contest.

We were a bit slow setting the dates for this contest with the hope of getting some entries with 3D graphics enabled. Koen, a frequent contributor to BeagleBoard.org and maintainer of the Angstrom Distribution that includes Beagle Board support, has given us a demo to show that this is now possible for community members. In his demonstration, he's running OGRE3D, an open source graphics engine, with Wiimote control and projection on his ceiling with the TI Pico Projector development kit.



As one of the contest judges, Koen isn't eligible for the contest, but you can build upon his work by utilizing the information provided on the Beagle mailing list for configuring the 3.00.00.06 SGX drivers that are now available from TI for download.

The contest details are at http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard/contest. To try to keep us on track of a contest per month, submissions must be complete, with all instructions and software, by Friday, February 27th. Good luck!

Software design contest #1

Shall we wrap-up the year with a BeagleBoard software design contest? The prize will be a Rev C1 BeagleBoard with a working USB EHCI port a couple months before they are broadly available.

Please don't be shy. I know there are a lot of interesting projects going on and you need to enter the contest to win!

More information can be found via the announcement on the mailing list. Reply if you have any questions. We are looking forward to your entries!

Enter soon. The first give-away will be the first week in January!

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