The BeagleBoard.org Foundation in Rochester has announced the global availability of BeaglePlay, the most adaptable open-source performance platform available, according to its makers.
The BeagleBoard.org community collaborates on the development of open source physical computing solutions including robotics, personal manufacturing tools like 3D printers and laser cutters, and other types of industrial and machine controls.
BeagleBoard.org is the result of an effort by a collection of passionate individuals, including several employees of Texas Instruments, interested in creating powerful, open, and embedded devices.
Built with the company’s open-source Linux approach, BeaglePlay has a feature set that includes built-in wired and wireless connectivity and the ability to connect to a wide selection of sensor and prototyping systems with thousands of options, as well as interfaces and processing performance to support them.
Leveraging the Texas Instruments AM625 processor with quad 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 cores, low-latency microcontroller subsystems, a dedicated Texas Instruments SimpleLink CC1352P7 sub-1 GHz, a 2.4-GHz wireless MCU, and a Texas Instruments WiLink WL1807MOD Wi-Fi module, new and experienced users can use a wide variety of application libraries and examples from Linux, Zephyr, MicroPython, and numerous other open source frameworks to add an endless array of sensors, actuators, indicators, and new connectivity options.
BeaglePlay software features a customized BeagleBoard.org Debian Linux image with desktop pre-installed along with features such as wi-fi access point and BeagleConnect gateway functionality supporting quick and flexible development options.
The software features performance applications, including:
- Industrial human machine interface (HMI)
- Retail and POS automation
- 3-D point cloud systems
- Vision analytics
- Vehicle and drone infrastructure
- 3-D reconfigurable display systems
- Medical equipment
- Smart buildings and edge AI
- web3 distributed infrastructure
The BeaglePlay feature set enables connectivity to the widest selection of sensor and prototyping systems as well as interfaces with memory and processing performance in a low-cost solution, the company says.
For more information, visit beagleplay.org.
