BeagleBoard Education Workshops

Abstract:
BeagleBone Black is a low-cost, open community development platform equipped with AM335x 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8. Its high performance versus its low price make this platform a unique “game changer” for teaching courses. Through this tutorial we will learn about Beagle history, technical insights, BeagleBoard.org community and open source hardware, BeagleBoard vs. BeagleBone, increasing functionality with plug-in board “Capes”, etc. We will understand what is needed in terms of hardware and software to get started with this board and easily bring this platform to projects from high school to university courses.

Resources

 * Presentation Slides
 * Course eLink Wiki

Abstract:
Get up and running in 5 mins! This hands-on workshop is BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) or use one of ours! You will take a BeagleBone Black (BBB) from out-of-the-box to blinking an LED in under 5 minutes. In under an hour you will see how you can embed your favorite signal processing applications.

The BBB is a $45 community-supported development platform for developers, hobbyists and educators. The BBB is 1) more powerful and has more I/O than a Raspberry Pi, 2) is as easy to use as an Arduino and 3) has a thriving Open Source Software community.

The workshop activities will include 1) Several hands-on exercises to get participants familiar with using the BBB using BoneScript and Linux commands. 2) discussions of the wide variety courses where it could be used: from freshman programming to senior design and graduate projects courses and 3) demonstrations of what the BBB can do 4) resources available to help you get started today

Participants will receive a BeagleBone Black to take home.

Abstract:
Ticketed event: $25.00 advanced registration and $35.00 on site registration

BeagleBone is a low cost, open hardware computer first introduced in November 2011 by BeagleBoard.org, a community of developers sponsored by Texas Instruments. BeagleBone hosts a powerful 32-bit, super-scalar ARM Cortex A8 processor operating at 720 MHz. Yet it is small enough to fit in an Altoids mint tin box. The "Bone'' may be used in a wide variety of projects from middle school science fair projects to senior design projects to first prototypes of very complex systems. Novice users may access the power of the Bone through the user-friendly Bonescript environment. Seasoned users may take full advantage of the Bone's power using the underlying Linux-based operating system, a host of feature extension boards (Capes) and a wide variety of open source libraries. This hands on workshop provides an introduction to this powerful computer and has been designed for a wide variety of users including the first time novice through the seasoned embedded system design professional.

Workshop participants will receive a BeagleBone board and also a BeagleBone book courtesy of BeagleBoard.org and Morgan and Claypool Publishers. This workshop is subsidized by Texas Instruments (TI).

Labs
Afternoon labs

Abstract:
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Pre Workshop
You will be mailed some information about the workshop and some things for you to do before arriving.

--Mark

Abstract:
Beagleboard is a low-cost open-source embedded system development platform. It is based on Texas Instruments DM3730 processor, which includes an on-chip ARM Cortex-A8 processor core, a Texas Instruments C6x DSP core, and a host of peripherals. Beagleboard is a single board computer, which provides adequate performance to run Linux software, yet has a power consumption lower than 2W. A large number of embedded applications have been developed on Beagleboard (www.beagleboard.org) Module A provides a gentle introduction to the subject of Embedded Linux, Linux Systems Programming and Linux Kernel Programming. The intention of Module B is to provide a hands-on exposure to running Embedded Linux operating system on the Beagleboard and develop system software on the Beagleboard.

Pre Workshop
The purpose of this page is to give you practice editing a wiki and to start building a community of BeagleBoard Educators. Click on the edit tab above and add your name to the list. You will have to create an eLinux account before you can edit the page.

--Mark

Abstract:
Linux, which is an “open source” operating system and enjoys considerable popularity on general-purpose computers, is becoming popular in the embedded world also. Different versions and variants of Linux are now available on embedded platforms. In this workshop, the intention is to provide a hands-on introduction to concepts of Linux Systems/Kernel Programming and Embedded Linux

Pre Workshop
The purpose of this page is to give you practice editing a wiki and to start building a community of BeagleBoard Educators. Click on the edit tab above and add your name to the list. You will have to create an eLinux account before you can edit the page.

--Mark

Abstract:
Module A provides an overview of basic concepts of Linux, Linux Systems Programming, Linux Kernel Programming, and Embedded Systems. Module A will also include an introduction to Beagleboard, an open-source, low-cost, low-power embedded system development platform. Module A will be conducted jointly by a team of experts from industry and academia. In Module B, aspects of Embedded Linux on Beagleboard will be explored in greater depth. Module B will be conducted by Prof. Mark A. Yoder of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA.

Pre Workshop
The purpose of this page is to give you practice editing a wiki and to start building a community of BeagleBoard Educators. Click on the edit tab above and add your name to the list. You will have to create an eLinux account before you can edit the page.

--Mark

Abstract:
The goal of this hands-on tutorial is to present ideas on how to use Texas Instrument’s DM 3730-based BeagleBoard xM ([www.BeagleBoard.org www.BeagleBoard.org]) for teaching embedded processing using Open Source resources. The DM 3730 is a dual core processor with an ARM Cortex-a8 core and a TI ‘c64x DSP core. The BeagleBoard is Open Source hardware that has sold over 30,000 units since its introduction less than 2 years ago and has a thriving Open Source Software community.

The BeagleBoard has many uses in the classroom. This workshop will show some of those uses and present some of the challenges in teaching with Open Source.

The workshop activities will include:


 * several hands-on exercises to get participants familiar with using the Beagle, and how it differs from a traditional 8- or 16-bit microcomputer.
 * several demonstrations of what the Beagle can do, such as streaming video and programming its DSP and discussions of what topics to include in an embedded/DSP class including dealing with open source comminutes.
 * This workshop is targeted to those who are teaching embedded processors or DSP hardware. Some Linux background would be helpful, but not required. Those with little or no Linux experience will be paired with those with more experience.

Post Workshop
Even though the workshop has been cancelled, you can still do the exercises. Here (Getting a Workshop SD Image) are instructions on how to put the tutorial image on your SD card.

Here (EBC Embedded Beagle Class Topics) is a list of topics I cover in my class. If you have questions, please email me.

Abstract:
This hands-on tutorial presents ideas on how to use TI’s OMAP 3530-based BeagleBoard (www.BeagleBoard.org) for teaching embedded media processing using Open Source resources. The BeagleBoard is Open Source hardware that has sold over 20,000 units since its introduction less than 2 years ago and has a thriving Open Source Software community. After the introduction, this workshop will complement the Sunday afternoon tutorial “From DSP Chips to Embedded Processors for Teaching Digital Signal Processing”. The Sunday workshop examples focus on programming the ‘C64 DSP on the OMAP3530. This workshop will focus on using Open Source software for media processing (such as GStreamer, OpenCV, etc.) and using the OMAP display subsystem for handling video. The workshop activities will include: No BeagleBoards will given out.
 * 1) Several hands-on exercises to get participants familiar with using the Beagle, (same as tutorial)
 * 2) Several demonstrations of what the Beagle can do using Open Source software, including using the display subsystem, recognizing speech, computer vision
 * 3) Discussions of what topics to include in an embedded Linux class.

Pre Workshop
The purpose of this page is to give you practice editing a wiki and to start building a community of BeagleBoard Educators. Click on the edit tab above and add your name to the list. You will have to create an eLinux account before you can edit the page.

--Mark

Labs
Here's an additional handout that didn't make it in time for the printers.

VideoThru Lab

Post Workshop
Here (Getting_a_Workshop_SD_Image) are instructions on how to put the tutorial image on your SD card.

Abstract:
This hands-on tutorial presents ideas on how to use TI’s OMAP 3530-based BeagleBoard (www.BeagleBoard.org) for teaching embedded media processing using Open Source resources. The BeagleBoard is Open Source hardware that has sold over 16,000 units since its introduction less than 2 years ago and has a thriving Open Source Software community. Today’s media handling embedded processors have come a long way from the limited performance of 8- or 16-bit embedded processors or the limited functionality of a dedicated DSP chip. Our students need to see that the days of the single DSP chip are almost over and they need to be prepared for working with DSPs embedded with other processors. The OMAP3530 processor contains both an ARM Cortex-A9 processor and a ‘C6400 DSP and it and chips like it are being used in products today. The workshop activities include: Participants will receive a BeagleBoard and course materials.
 * 1)      hands-on exercises to get participants familiar with using the Beagle,
 * 2)      demonstrations of what the Beagle can do, including streaming video and synthesizing speech and
 * 3)      discussions of what topics to include in an embedded Linux class.

Pre Tutorial
The purpose of this page is to give you practice editing a wiki and to start building a community of BeagleBoard Educators. Click on the edit tab above and add your name to the list. You will have to create an eLinux account before you can edit the page.

--Mark

Labs
Here's an additional handout that didn't make it in time for the printers.

AudioThru Lab

Post Tutorial
Here (Getting_a_Workshop_SD_Image) are instructions on how to put the tutorial image on your SD card.

Abstract
Today’s media handling embedded processors have come a long way from the limited performance of 8- or 16-bit embedded processors or the limited functionality of a dedicated DSP chip. This 3-hour, hands-on workshop presents ideas on how to use TI’s OMAP 3530-based BeagleBoard ([www.BeagleBoard.org www.BeagleBoard.org]) for teaching embedded media processing using Open Source resources. The OMAP3530 processor contains both an ARM Cortex-A9 processor and a ‘C6400 DSP. The BeagleBoard is Open Source hardware that has sold over 20,000 units since its introduction less than 2 years ago and has a thriving Open Source Software community. The 3-hour workshop activities will include 1) several demonstrations of what the Beagle can do, including streaming video and synthesizing speech, 2) Discussions of what topics to include in an embedded Linux class and 3) Several hands-on exercises to get participants familiar with using the Beagle. Participants will receive a Beagleboard.

Post Workshop
Here are some things you might want to do now that the workshop is over.

Here are instructions on how to create the SD card that was used in the workshop.
 * Go here (ECE597_Getting_your_Beagle_running_(precompiled)) to download and install the base image for the Beagle. This will install the kernel and all the files needed to run many of the demos.
 * Download this zip file to get the extra files used in the workshop. Copy it to your BeagleBoard and unzip it there. This file contains the VideoThru, c6run_target, hello.c and helloBeagle.c files.
 * Download the workshop pptx here.

Pre Workshop
If you are an overachiever (not required) go here (ECE497 Lab13 Using the DSP via c6run) to learn how to install the ARM and DSP development tools on your Linux system (Ubuntu 10.4 LTS is required). If you don't have Ubuntu installed, go here to learn how to install it in a virtual machine under windows.

These installs are not required for the workshop; however editing the the table below is.

The purpose of this page is to give you practice editing a wiki and to start building a community of BeagleBoard Educators. Click on the edit tab above and add your name to the list. You will have to create an eLinux account before you can edit the page.

--Mark

2010 ICASSP Workshop
The purpose of this page is to give you practice editing a wiki and to start building a community of BeagleBoard Educators. Click on the edit tab above and add your name to the list.

--Mark

Labs
Here is a list of the hands on exercises we will be doing in the 2010 workshop. Many have suggestions for additional homework that you can do once you are back home and have a network connection.


 * 1) 2010 ICASSP Lab 1 Wiring_and_Running the Beagle
 * 2) 2010 ICASSP Lab 2 The Boot Sequence