New $89 Open-source Hardware Runs Full Linux OS

An acceptant-author hardware group on Monday announced a US$89 credit-card sized motherboard settled happening an ARM C.P.U. that could be used for robotics, gaming and medical devices.

BeagleBoard's BeagleBone development board is targeted at the open up-source hardware community, which includes hobbyists and engineers writing code for ironware with ASCII text file specifications. Some BeagleBoard projects admit delivery Linux-founded Android and Ubuntu operating systems to its hardware.

The BeagleBone runs a sonorous version of Linux and a full-featured World Wide Web server, BeagleBoard said in a statement. The board is based connected Texas Instruments' $5 Sitara AM335x Limb Cortex-A8 processor, which bum fork out 720MHz of performance. TI announced the processor on Monday.

The board may not be for wont in smartphones, tablets or PCs, said Jim McGregor, chief technology strategian at In-Stat. It is mostly for embedded systems running specific applications, and could likewise be used in audio-visual systems and projectors.

Matchless device developed around the board is the Smart Pill Box, which is a device that lets off an alarm at a specific meter to remind Alzheimer's patients to take medicine.

The ASCII text file boards are cheap to implement, and very much of evolution is supported the Limb processor and Linux Osmium, McGregor said. Decades of development around Linux for open-origin ironware has created both easy-to-implement applications for devices.

Despite much experimentation, open-source ironware may not reach smartphones and tablets soon, McGregor said. Hardware requirements for those devices are much more hard and dynamic, and devices makers prefer to implement their own chip designs. Simply the possibilities are exciting, and some of the latest chips from companies like Qualcomm include the latest artwork and communication capabilities, McGregor aforesaid.

Other open-source projects include OpenCores, which hosts open-generator processing cores, the microcontroller-based Arduino, and Bug Labs, which offers hardware for devices such as wireless devices and cameras.

The BeagleBone measures 3.4 inches by 2.1 inches (8.6 centimeters by 5.3 centimeters). It has Gigabit Ethernet, 3D graphics, USB 2.0 and microSD controllers, BeagleBoard aforementioned.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/477824/new_89_opensource_hardware_runs_full_linux_os.html

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