PocketBeagle® TechLab Cape
What is PocketBeagle® TechLab Cape?
BeagleBoard.org PocketBeagle TechLab Cape was designed from lessons-learned in teaching hundreds of individuals getting their first introduction to programming, Linux, and ultimately hacking the kernel itself. TechLab has taken inspiration from the GHI Electronics BrainPad as well as the QWERTY Embedded Design BaconBits Cape, maintaining complete pinout compatibility with BaconBits such that users can follow along with the excellent introduction to Linux kernel programming provided in the Embedded Apprentice Linux Engineer seminars and useful for associated follow-on training available from The Linux Foundation .
Features:
- USB-to-serial (micro B connector)
- USB host (A connector)
- Reset button
- 2 push buttons (L and R) (via GPIO)
- Light sensor (via ADC)
- Tri-color LED (via PWM)
- 2-digit 7-segment display (via SPI)
- Accelerometer (via I2C)
- EEPROM (write-protected) (via I2C)
- mikroBus header
Learn to program
Embedded Linux turns physical hardware into files you can simply read and write
- Using Bonescript Node.js library
- Work in progress using Node-RED+Blockly
- Work in progress using Makecode
Learn to program the Linux kernel
Hardware info
Shopping list
Embedded OS Essentials
Introduction (TechLab and learning embedded Linux through SYSFS)
- Schedule
- Materials
- Notes on Gist
- Example sources
- username: debian password: temppwd
The LED Backpack
It won't be hard to spot @Jadon from @beagleboardorg at the Embedded Linux Conference! #OSSummit #lfelc pic.twitter.com/W4Yienptcm
— Drew Fustini ➡️ ELC-E 🐧🇫🇷 (@pdp7) October 28, 2019
I'd love to say I made this, but I'm way too lazy. I bought it from Aliexpress
It is the mechanical stuff that I really don't want to mess with, but this is the same type of panel supported by PocketScroller.
