BeagleCast 2011-03-07: The inaugural podcast

Today's hosts are Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon.  Below are the show note links.

Links to the recordings

• BeagleCast-20110307.mp3
• BeagleCast-20110307.ogg

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Jeff and Yocto   

• Jeff at a conference near the Columbia river gorge   
• Jeff now the Yocto community manager   
• Yocto includes Poky build tools, is multiplatform and has a BeagleBoard BSP   
• Yocto gets many new partners   
• What does it mean to join with OpenEmbedded?  
• OE and Gentoo share roots
• Arago Project    
• Koen working on the oe-core  
• eLinux wiki summary of embedded Linux projects   
• Wikis "are like bread" (good when fresh)   
• BeagleBoard.org and Google Summer of Code   
• oe-core status update and Yocto birds of a feather at ELC week of April 10

SD card discussion   

• Amazon selling consumer friendly packaging   
• SD card performance shootout needed to measure controller performance   

BeagleBoard and electronics hobbyists of all ages

• Maker Faire
• Getting Started in Electronics
• Capacitors explode
• 555 timer contest

 News from the BeagleBoard.org RSS feed and elsewhere

• Cloud9 IDE on BeagleBoard
• BeagleBoard Trainer-xM
• Contributing upstream patches, such as uEnv.txt patch in u-boot
• The move from ttyS2 to ttyO2
• linux-omap kernel patchwork
• Linaro status
• Linux news
• Linux input events in Perl
• Student Robotics has a nice BeagleBoard based robot design and real student roots 
• xM now available from Tenet Technetronics
• Koen made BeagleBoard coasters with his MakerBot
• Adobe Flash10.1 with DSP H264
• PIXHAWK Gumstix Camera
• BeagleWall with interview of Roger Monk

The theme music for BeagleCast was created and provided by Alasdair Drake.

LugRadio Live UK 2008

Lugradio live 2008
Originally uploaded by koenkooi

The BeagleBoard.org community last weekend (July 19/20) showcased the latest beagle developments and capabilities at the LugRadio Live 08 Event in the UK. Koen Kooi (Open Embedded) and Måns Rullgård (FFmpeg) teamed up to deliver some stunning NEON accelerated High Definition video demonstrations and the latest ARM Cortex-A8 OE built Angstrom Distribution. Other demos included High Definition 3D graphics acceleration leveraging Beagle's Imagination SGX core and some C64x+ DSP accelerated audio and video codecs. Lots of great interest at the show in the capabilities of a such a 'small but powerful platform', especially when enabled by such a creative and dynamic community.

Koen also provided a handful of nice pictures from the event.

Edit (2008-07-29)--Linux Outlaws did an interview:

Distros for Beagle

Some may think of the Beagle Board as just another embedded eval board, but its capabilities lie much closer to those of a computer. And as a computer, Beagle needs an OS. Though we are already running Linux, and it’s fine, there’s still something missing. Beagle needs a distro.

On your PC you might use Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, or another distro out there, and Beagle needs one as well. Currently, Beagle is already running Angstrom (OE) (thanks Koen!), but why not get involved early and help Beagle run Ubuntu ARM (Mojo), Fedora ARM, Gentoo ARM, or even ARMedslack?