Re: Why so little info on the Pocket Beagle?
Evidently it's very new, there's a discussion on Google with the
oldest post being about a week old.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!categories/beagleboard/pocketbeagle
Github stuff is about 2 weeks old. They claim to have a working
Debian image for download. If it's got a host USB port I'll try
hooking that into a powered hub, try adding keyboard, mouse, wifi.
This may be a more immature product than I like though. The EMI
regulatory report was issued less than a month ago. I haven't seen
anything on power consumption but I'm guessing pretty low since it's
basically a single chip. Needs a bunch of breakout stuff to connect
to it to be practical, 2 36-pin headers are where most stuff is.
On 10/3/17, Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com> wrote:
> By the Mouser page at
> http://www.mouser.com/new/beagleboardorg/pocketbeagle/ it has a
> "SGX530 graphics accelerator" so it seems like it must have video. In
> my earlier looking around it seems like I ran across the fact that it
> has a micro (not mini) HDMI, so I wanted to double check that because
> I only have mini, but couldn't find it again. It does have several
> serial ports or at least uarts. Their graphics are so big they
> basically didn't work until I made them 1/4 size in Gimp. It has 2
> SPI ports by the pinouts. Yes, I have 3 Raspberry Pi 3Bs and a couple
> Zeros, I wanted to diversify a little. Or I just wonder why nobody
> else bothers to include A/D ports.
>
> Why is the only documentation on Github? Strange marketing ploy.
>
> On 10/3/17, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Lennart Sorensen
>> <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 02:59:04PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>>> For your first boot you usually attach a HD monitor and keyboard to
>>>> get through the administrivia, like setting a root password and adding
>>>> users. Once you setup locally, then you access the gadget through SSH.
>>>
>>> But how would you attach a monitor to a pocketbeagle that has no video
>>> connector?
>>>
>>> Seems to me usb serial is the only option, or blink an led.
>>
>> According to https://github.com/beagleboard/pocketbeagle/wiki/FAQ, it
>> looks like you use a web browser; not a monitor. Once you get to the
>> config screen using the web browser, I'm guessing you can enable SSH.
>>
>> After reading about it, I think it sounds like a neat project with
>> some niche applications. But I also think you should probably use a
>> more traditional dev-board, like a Pine-64, ODROID-C2, LeMaker HiKey,
>> RaspberryPi-3, BananaPi, CunieTruck 5, etc. You will find them easier
>> to use.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
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