The newly introduced PocketBeagle® is an ultra-tiny-yet-complete Linux-enabled, community-supported, open-source USB-key-fob computer. By leveraging the Octavo SIP, the PocketBeagle offers complete BeagleBoard functionality and includes 512MB DDR3 RAM, 1-GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 2x 200-MHz PRUs, ARM Cortex-M3, 3D accelerator, power/battery management and EEPROM. The board offers lots of GPIOs, on board peripherals and various expansion capabilities via multiple headers and the Mikroelektronika click board interface. During this course you will learn about pin configuration, how to create a Linux distribution, reconfiguring io on the fly and how to leverage expansion modules. Attendees will leave with their very own PocketBeagle and a couple other surprises as well.
Robert (Rob) Nelson is a Principal Applications Engineer with Digi-Key Electronics. Rob has long been viewed as the Bill Gates of the BeagleBoard platform creating countless Linux based kernel distributions, articles, blogs and forum posts on the platform itself. He has been with Digi-Key Electronics for 12 years and has received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of North Dakota.