Jason Kridner

• Beagle bone - he and his wife - runs foundation
• Initial founding -
• Currently at TI
• 350k BBB sold last year - 3-4M for Ras Pi
• Olimex - https://www.olimex.com/
• Cheap open table -
• NXP is not doing much
• Nobody has stuff to compete with cheap chinese tablet
• Openmoko is stable - but not going forward.
• Project Ara - died
• Motorola Z - semimodular
• BBB - controlling electronics is the bigger deal.
• https://www.machinekit.io/about/
• Standard interface - for screen etc - as many standard producs
• OLPC - serviceable
• https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/android-raspberry-pi/
• Can do RasPad w/bead
• Make it multiple board capable?
• https://bela.io/
• SEEED and Soundcloud and Russians license BeagleBone. Authorized clones.
• ella.io - http://elladurham.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
• OpenAg - food puter - plants seeds and growing - https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/open-agriculture-openag/overview/
• Ardupilot has native support for realtime
• ROS-Navlink-autopilot - logic is above autopilot level
• https://e-ale.org/
• Doing well at University level
• Drew Fustini, Jason - access on blog at Adafruit
• Guest blog on BBB - https://beagleboard.org/blog/
• Hackaday - Brian Benchoff - Sophi Kravitz -
• Hackster - Alastair Allen. Alex Glow - talk there. Promo. Do a project entry.
• AI Vision - accelerator for vision. Autopilot + vision + neural net object recognition. Beagleboard.org/AI.
• Have different pieces - but integration is key.