Jason Kridner

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  • 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/
  • https://www.hackster.io/projects?ref=topnav
  • 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. https://www.hackster.io/projects?ref=topnav
  • AI Vision - accelerator for vision. Autopilot + vision + neural net object recognition. Beagleboard.org/AI.
  • Have different pieces - but integration is key.
  • Train a model to locate things. Different algorithms on top of autopilot. Get a certain percentage of screen with an object.
  • Autopilot+ROS+Navlink. SLAM. Trained model to recognize. On other, control system the drone to go to somewhere like gcode. Downward sensor for height. Sensor fusion is found in Ardupilot.
  • Yes - X86 computers - Qualcomm computers. BB Ai - within 6 months. Better support on hardware. BB AI - can open source vision AI.
  • Google Coral on top.
  • bbb.io/ai/alpha has some helpful links as does bbb.io/ai