PocketBeagle

[ahbushnell]

The beagle folks have a new baby.  The Pocket Beagle!

http://beagleboard.org/pocket

Nice price.  $25

Andy

[hermit]

I like the Kicad files for this.  At last......   

[westfw]

The board is cheaper than the bare chip :-(
(~$25 vs ~$40)

[Kjelt]

Looks interesting for its size. There are also some small form BBs from german mfg.
Are these 100% BB sw compatible or needs their own seperate build?

[hermit]

About price.  The Beagle Bone Black started around $35 if I remember correctly.  It is now about double that.  IF, and that's a big IF, there are no hardware issues with the board, now might be the time to buy up a couple before they raise the price on this one too.

[Kjelt]

About price.  The Beagle Bone Black started around $35 if I remember correctly.  It is now about double that. 

Never saw it for that price, Adafruit has them for $45.
Also there have been some revisions over time.

[hermit]

About price.  The Beagle Bone Black started around $35 if I remember correctly.  It is now about double that. 

Never saw it for that price, Adafruit has them for $45.
Also there have been some revisions over time.

I'm seeing $55 at Adafruit and they are selling the Element 14 version that brought the price back down a bit.  But yeah, maybe it isn't fair to relate the intro price to the current price given the revisions. 

I'm still deciding whether or not to pull the trigger on the current pricing or wait till there's some history from early adopters.

[rsjsouza]

Looks interesting for its size. There are also some small form BBs from german mfg.
Are these 100% BB sw compatible or needs their own seperate build?

I have a friend told me he would try to run TI's Processor SDK on it - I don't know if he had time to go through it already, though.

About price.  The Beagle Bone Black started around $35 if I remember correctly.  It is now about double that. 

Never saw it for that price, Adafruit has them for $45.
Also there have been some revisions over time.

I'm seeing $55 at Adafruit and they are selling the Element 14 version that brought the price back down a bit.  But yeah, maybe it isn't fair to relate the intro price to the current price given the revisions. 

I have never seen the BBBlack as $35 either. Wikipedia seems to agree.

I don't know if this was influential on the price, but I recall these boards were in allocation for quite some time as apparently a significant part of them were being used in final products, which exhausted the stock. Perhaps the bump in price was due to the addition of more manufacturing sources, but I can't tell for sure.

[thm_w]

Digikeys stock is frozen at 25 qty: https://www.digikey.ca/products/en?lang=en&site=ca&KeyWords=PocketBeagle
I'm thinking that's their way of limiting orders to 25pc max. If someone was planning on using the board in their high quantity production product.

Although Arrow lists 666 stock, so my theory can be wrong ($24 + free shipping): https://www.arrow.com/en/products/pocketbeagle/beagleboardorg

[JPortici]

Thirteen Thousand on backorder at mouser. Jesus!

http://www.mouser.it/ProductDetail/BeagleBoard/PocketBeagle-SC-569/?qs=YCa%2fAAYMW00RLPkeA%2fnP9A%3d%3d

[MT]

Can you do bare metal programming on this pocket?

[rsjsouza]

Can you do bare metal programming on this pocket?

Most certainly so, given that it is so similar to a BeagleBone.

Some resources from TI are their RTOS SDK and user manual.

[hermit]

Digikeys stock is frozen at 25 qty: https://www.digikey.ca/products/en?lang=en&site=ca&KeyWords=PocketBeagle
I'm thinking that's their way of limiting orders to 25pc max. If someone was planning on using the board in their high quantity production product.

Although Arrow lists 666 stock, so my theory can be wrong ($24 + free shipping): https://www.arrow.com/en/products/pocketbeagle/beagleboardorg

I'm on chat with Arrow at the moment asking why this jumped to $41.75. It was $25 there not that long ago. The quantities available were always pretty high so it's probably the same friggin stock.   They have the BBB for $54.95.  The pocket version makes no sense at that price.  I sent them the link to the Digikey page where it is still $25.

Good lord.  They offered a 10% discount and can't seem to do the math.  They claim it will be $6 cheaper that what a 10% discount will work out to be. But, I'll pass this along from the chat.

Enter discount code 10off at checkout to take advantage of the limited time offer.

[Kjelt]

You tried entering 50off ? 

[hermit]

You are 40% smarter than me. 

[MT]

$41.74 + free shipping. In Stock: 7,307 parts
Seams lot of complicated maneuvers are needed to make PB blink a led.