 Okay, this week is Beagle Bone. Beagle Board. Yeah, but it's... Beagle Bone is the product. Yeah, that's how I know it. You call it Beagle Board. I call Beagle Bone sometimes, too. Beagle Board.org is the group that they design single board computers and they have a new one. It's like if people remember the Beagle Board, original on the Beagle Bone, they have a new one called the Beagle Play. Single board. It's pretty cool. So this is the Beagle Play. It is chop-full. This has like everything in it. It is a ultimate, all possible connections available. New York's hottest club is Beagle Board. Yeah, it's there. It's all there. This is the back of the board. So this is a base. It features a ton of chips from TI. The main core is... I'm trying to remember. It's the Sitara AM6254. It's a quad core A53 chipset. It's also got a Cortex M4 in it. And it's got like tons of add-ons. So you might be familiar from this board again. The previously most popular board was the Beagle Bone. We challenged a couple spin-offs. There was the Beagle Bone Green and the Beagle Bone AI. It was a predecessor to the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi came afterwards. And this board was really neat because it was a single board computer. It had Ethernet. It had DC power in USB and a lot of GPIL. And it was very inexpensive. It was about 60 bucks, which is... At the time, it was pretty amazing considering that PC104 boards easily started adding up and could be a couple hundred bucks a piece. All here because of the Chumbie. We really are all here because of the Chumbie and the Beagle. Do you like the Raspberry Pi? Single board computing. Go, Bunny. Thanks for bringing this into the world. For makers. For makers, yes. It was like... We all saw it and were like, oh, wow. Yes, it's cool. And I remember Beagle Bone came out and was like, this is awesome. Very cool. And we carried it. And the thing is is that... And there was also the Beagle Board exam. This is actually the original one. And this was cool. But I think we remember why this was not as popular. I think it was just really hard to... Hard work connected. You see it was like too audio. But I think it was tougher to connect to the GPIO. I think the GPIO wasn't easily exposed or something like that. Or a two millimeter pitch header or something. But this was like the original. And then, you know, that's available. And then the Beagle Bone is still available as well. And this has... We have support for it and a lot of people have support for it. So the Beagle Play is... This is like when you're going to... When you're on a website and you're ordering something like a pizza. And you're just like, you know what? I'm skipping everything on it. You want broccoli? You want ham? You want pineapple? Yeah. I want rock star, meatball. I want pineapple. Yeah. It's okay. So there's a lot. Actually, you know, let's go to the next image first. And then we'll go back because this one is actually a little easier to talk about. Okay. So the main core there is the AM66254. Like I mentioned, it's an A53 Cortex quad core. I think it runs at 1.3 gigahertz. There's also a Cortex M4 sub processor in there. It comes with... There's on-chip SRAM, but then there's an additional 2 gigabyte of DDR4 memory and 16 gigabyte of EMMC. So that's where the file system and operating system live. There's a real-time clock, the VQ32002. On the other side, you'll see the battery holder for it, which I think is really useful. It's like a lot of times people have an add-on to their Raspberry Pi at a real-time clock, but this is all built in and ready to go, even with that coin cell battery backup so you can pull power. And it will know the time even if the internet doesn't connect. There's the TPS6521901 PMIC. That's just the power management because there's a lot of rails on this board. The wireless and connectivity is really interesting. So they... I don't want to say they went overboard, but they kind of went overboard in a good way. So they've got Gigabit Ethernet with the RTL 82100... sorry, 8211F. And they have a separate single-pair Ethernet. That's the RJ11 on the other side. And that's with the DP83 chipset. Those aren't like the controllers. I think those were only like the fives. I think the Ethernet support is, of course, built into the SOC itself. For wireless, they've got WL8207. So 2.4 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi. Two separate antennas. The antennas come with the board. And they have a separate CC1352P7. And that provides VLE and sub-gigahertz. Sub-gigahertz in this case is ZigBee or Thread and other 2.4 gigahertz. Sorry. Yeah, 2.4 gigahertz. I think 900 megahertz. It doesn't have Laura support, by the way, because I looked and it was like, okay, it doesn't do Laura, but it does do basic packet radio. So there's also two antenna ports for that as well. So let's go back one. So it's the main chips. So it's like 15 weeks. There's all the fixings. There's all the fixings. So starting at the top left, you'll go clockwise. So there's the real-time clock battery. So I showed you the real-time clock on the other side. You'll need a CR1220 to pop it in there to get battery back up. There's user LEDs. They blink when you power it on and all that good stuff. There's a JTAG connector. And this uses that like quick JTAG link or something. I can't remember the name of it, but it's like it has little press fits and you plug it in. So you want a JTAG connected to the AM6254. You can do that. The micro bus. So this is for MicroEltronica. And then you have like a thousand different breakout boards for like every single SPI, I-squared-C or UR or ADC board. And you can just plug them right in. So there's a socket ready to go. And there's like the little outlines showing the three different sizes. There's OLDI, which I was trying to research a little bit. And I didn't get very far, but I believe it's like LVDS compatible. There's CSI2. So that connector there is the camera connector. And it's pin compatible with the Pi Zero camera connector. So if you want to use it with Raspberry Pi cameras, just get the Pi Zero to camera connector. Then there's Grove expansion. And that gives you, you know, UR or I-squared-C or there is an analog output groves. I don't think there's an ADC on here. And I couldn't find there's an ADC on the chip itself. So I think it might not support the analog input groves. It only does like UR, I-squared-C and GPIO. There's a quick expansion. So this work was over STEMIQT boards as well. So that's a ready to go I-squared-C. And they have a tutorial I'm actually using. This is like the one thing that had a really good tutorial on. There's a user button that you can use. There's a separate microSD storage. That's not the main operating system storage. Although you can boot from microSD card if you want to configure it. I don't know. You could, but you can use the onboard storage EMMC, which is going to be nice and fast. And then the microSD for, you know, data logging or whatever. And that's, you can mount and unmount it. There's a reset button. Again, there's that JTEC connector. Oh, sorry. There's a separate JTEC connector for the CC1352. That's the wireless connectivity power button. You hold that down to turn on the power connectivity LEDs for like all the different connections. And then the single pair Ethernet, which I found interesting because I've never really seen a single board computer that had a single pair Ethernet. And on one hand it's pretty cool. Could be that a lot of robotics and automation are moving towards single pair Ethernet. We covered it in a previous INFPI. If so, then you can, you know, maybe get power and data over one cable. And that could be really good for robotics and stuff. Cause this is a nice small board with four mounting holes. Yeah. This could be robotics board, home automation board. Yeah. It could be both. Yeah. It's also got Gigabit Ethernet and HDMI out 1080p HDMI from the built in and the Beaglebot had a separate chip that did it. This is actually like natively on the AM 6254 core. USB-A 2.0 host. So, you know, there's only one USB port. So if you're used to a Raspberry Pi, look at that kind of four ports. It's because they had a hub built in. You can just attach an external hub if you need. There's your debug header. So, you know, GroundRX and TX and USB-C. I'll be honest, I actually didn't use the USB connectivity, but probably if you plug in the computer like shows up as a gadget device, it's also used for power. So I just plugged into my, you know, USB-C power plug and it worked fine. Okay. So that was a lot. So let's get into some of the parts. So the main core is the AM 625 series. It comes in one two four core. This is the four core version. Max frequency 1.4 gigahertz 64 bit has Linux support. So you can check out. There's a bunch of hardware support here. It's got can GPIO, SPI, iSquared C, Wolverine coder, et cetera, et cetera. Tons of tons of great boxes. Tons of great boxes. There is a tutorial on using iSquared C for the Stemma and Quick. I believe that it might only have iSquared C support via Grove, but a lot of things are iSquared C. So you'll be good for that. And then what we're going to do is like, I just got this. We're going to get Blinko working on it. So you can use all of our Circuit Python library drives. Which is great timing because, you know, for the folks who are like, well, I need a single work computer and, you know, whatever. I'm just going to get something now instantly because I can't wait for Raspberry Pi. Well, it's not even. I mean, like to be honest, it's like under a hundred bucks. It is actually cheaper to get this than to get a Raspberry Pi. Add the EMMC, add the real-time plug. Yeah, you can't get all of these single pairs. And if you use Blinko, which we're going to have, if you've done Python, then it works everywhere. So that's kind of the reason we did it because we're like, well, maybe one day people are going to be using all these single work computers. And we don't want to rewrite the drivers every single time. Yeah. So there's a lot of stuff. And what's nice is, so the only thing is there's no GPIO, right? The GPIO, if, you know, there are any are on the micro bus. A lot of times that's the only trade-off you can't like plug in existing hands or bonnets. But it kind of has everything built in already for, I think for a lot of situations where people are using Raspberry Pi, but they don't need GPIO, they just want to need to connect like accessory boards. This is a no solder solution. And it's, I like that. I actually kind of like that they went a different direction. They're like, we're not going to try to make a Raspberry Pi. Yeah. It's kind of a waste of time. I feel like there's this like, what's the Raspberry Pi killer? It's, you know, banana pie. We're trying, like, this is something different. Yes. And I like that. Like that they went in a different direction. That's right. Okay. That's this week's IonMPI. That's available now. It's 660 channel stock. Yeah.