Beagle Embedded Starter Kit
The Beagle Embedded Starter Kit is designed for embedded developers working on mobile applications that require tablet-style functionality.
The kit contains everything needed to bring up Linux on a portable touchscreen device. With a 4.3” OLED touchscreen that mounts directly on the BeagleBoard, the BeagleTouch reduces the need for several peripherals and a mess of wires. Serial communication to the BeagleBoard is brought out to a Type B-mini USB port, and the entire setup can be powered and charged through the BeagleJuice 2 battery module, which includes an on/off switch as well.
Everything is modular and snaps on or mounts directly to the BeagleBoard C5, resulting in a compact handheld device that can serve as a tablet computer or control panel. The kit comes with a 4 GB pre-formatted SD card to boot Angstrom Linux.
The Embedded Starter Kit makes interfacing with BeagleBoard hardware simple and modular, allowing embedded software developers to spend more time prototyping custom applications and less time navigating complex hardware.
Applications
- handheld mobile device
- kiosk interface
- portable control panel
Specifications
- Display: 4.3 inch touch display
- Screen: 480×272 OLED screen
- Battery Life: 10.5 hours of battery life
- Operating System: Angstrom
- Processor Speed: 720MHz
- RAM: 128MB
- bits: 32bit
- Cores: Single Core
- SD Storage: 4GB SD Storage
- On Board Flash: 256MB
- Height: 3.63 inches (92.1mm)
- Length: 4.10 inches (104.1mm)
- Depth: 1.68 inches (42.5mm)
- USB Host (Type A): 1 USB Host Port
- USB Slave (Mini AB): USB OTG Port
- Wi-Fi: none
- Ethernet (RJ-45): none
- RS232 Serial Port Debugging: none
- Video Output: DVI
- Video Output: S-Video
- Speaker (On Board): none
- Speaker (Stereo Headphone Out): 3.5mm Audio Out
- Microphone (Audio In): 3.5mm Audio In
- Hardware Prototyping Module: none
- All-in-1 USB multi-card reader/writer: none
- Power Adapter: 19V, Beagle
- Extended Battery Life: none
- User Customizable Buttons: none
Components
- BeagleBoard Rev C5
- BeagleTouch touchscreen display module
- BeagleJuice 2 battery module
- 4 GB pre-formatted Angstrom Linux boot SD card
- 19V laptop-style power supply
Resources
- Beagleboard.org – BeagleBoard support site
- eLinux.org wiki – Embedded Linux Wiki
- antipastohw wiki – BeagleBoard wiki resources
- Build your own boot SD card: instructions, kernel, and rootfs











