This article was guest written by Michael Welling, the developer of the KiCad PocketBone Design. Michael is an Embedded Design Engineer with over 10 years of experience. He owns an electronic design consulting firm, QWERTY Embedded Design, LLC. He has an MS in Electrical Engineering, was an instructor at SIUC and a 12-year member of IEEE. He is also a mentor for Beagleboard.org Google Summer of Code.
In the previous blog, the origin story and design process of the PocketBone were discussed. This edition talks about the process of gathering components and assembling the units at home by hand.
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This article was guest written by Michael Welling, the developer of the KiCad PocketBone Design. Michael is an Embedded Design Engineer with over 10 years of experience. He owns an electronic design consulting firm, QWERTY Embedded Design, LLC. He has an MS in Electrical Engineering, was an instructor at SIUC and a 12-year member of IEEE. He is also a mentor for Beagleboard.org Google Summer of Code.
Motivation
As an embedded systems design engineer, I am always on the lookout for the latest technology. When the Octavo Systems OSD3358 was announced I was very excited to see something mainstream using System-In-Package (SiP) technology. (Read More…)
It has been a busy couple of weeks around here lately with a lot of exciting news. First we had the announcement of the BeagleBone® Black Wireless which features the OSD3358-512M-BAS instead of the discrete TI AM3358. Then we went to World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science. Now we have a couple more announcements.
We are happy to let everybody know that GHI Electronics has released two development platforms for the OSD3358. Both boards utilize the OSD3358-512M-BAS which integrates the TI Sitara™ AM3358 ARM® Cortex® A8 processor running at 1GHz, 512MB of DDR3, 2 power supplies, and passives into a single IC package. The boards are available to order today from the GHI Electronics website. Their status is listed as preview. This means there are some things that haven’t been completely tested yet (all of which are outlined). It also means there could be some minor changes when the production versions are released. (Read More…)