Embedded Systems Conference

France 2009

ESC France, Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

BeagleBoard Workshop - Thursday, December 3rd

Join BeagleBoard.org at ESC France for a hands-on interactive training workshop. You get access to industry expert led classes where you learn how to configure your kit onsite---and it's yours to keep!

Training and Free Hardware

Purchase your place now! Limited availability.

You can add a BeagleBoard to ANY ESC France registration package for €149 (vat inclusive).

Key Takeaways : Learn to boot, verify, and interact with a Beagle Board, explore the capabilities, develop with the boot-loader and kernel sources, and address the hardware manufacturing challenges.

Audience level : Introductory

Pre-requisites : Some knowledge of C compilers, Linux, and the VIM or PICO text editors is beneficial, but not strictly required.

Presentation Abstract : This session will give you all of the hardware, boot, and kernel basics for getting started with development on your Beagle Board or product derived from the Beagle Board. A bit of Linux experience is desired before attending this session, but is not strictly required. The attendee will be walked through the motivations behind the architecture of the Beagle Board, how to engage with the Beagle Board developer community, and how to obtain and utilize the source code projects most fundamental to the board functionality.

• Class information page
• Registration page - Select 'TI BeagleBoard Workshop' option

Attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptops and a USB-to-serial adapter, available for sale at the show, to the classes for easy bring-up of the BeagleBoard. The classroom will also be equipped with monitors and connectors for every individual registered attendee.

The class presenter will be in the workshop Wednesday afternoon for those that would like to bring-up their boards before the classes kick-off.

Workshop presentations can be downloaded prior to the classes here at beagleboard.org/esc.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3

BeagleBoard 101 Workshop

Speaker: Marie-Claire Desjardins (Systems Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments)

Date/Time: Thursday (December 3, 2009) 09:00 am - 12:30 pm

Location(room): Makalu, Europole Congress, World Trade Centre, Grenoble

Boston 2009

BeagleBoard Workshop- Tuesday, September 22nd

Join BeagleBoard.org at ESC for a hands-on interactive day of training. You get access to industry expert led classes where you learn how to configure you kit onsite---and it’s yours to keep!

Sessions are Free

Purchase your kit now! You can add a BeagleBoard to ANY ESC registration package for $299.

Already have a BeagleBoard from last year’s event? Pay an additional $99 for your 2009 set up (including cables, monitor station and all BeagleBoard accessories). This option can be added to any ESC registration package.

• Class information page
• Registration page - Select Beagle classes in Step 3

Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops and a USB-to-serial adapter, which is available for sale at the show, to the classes for easy bring-up of the BeagleBoard. The minds behind the BeagleBoard, Jason Kridner and Gerald Coley, will be in the workshop Tuesday morning for those that would like to bring-up their boards before the classes kick-off. Workshop presentations can be downloaded prior to the classes here at beagleboard.org/esc.

Note : BeagleBoard registration package additions are available in the STEP 3 portion of ESC registration.

Have ideas and projects you want to share with other BeagleBoard developers? Stick around after the classes and join BeagleBoard.org for drinks at the Users Group meeting after the classes in room 200.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

BeagleBoard 101 Workshop
Speaker: Gerald Coley (Systems Engineer, Texas Instruments) & Jason Kridner (Principal Architect, Texas Instruments)
Date/Time: Tuesday (September 22, 2009) 12:30pm — 2:30pm
Location (room): 200
Slides: BeagleBoard101-esc-boston-2009b.ppt

Run Android on your BeagleBoard
Speaker: Bill Gatliff
Date/Time: Tuesday (September 22, 2009) 2:45pm — 4:00pm
Location (room): 200
Slides: intro_android.pdf

Embedded Streaming Media with Gstreamer
Speaker: Santiago Nunez (RidgeRun)
Date/Time: Tuesday (September 22, 2009) 4:15pm — 5:30pm
Location (room): 200
Slides: ESC-228Slides_snunez.ppt

Introduction to 3D with the BeagleBoard
Speaker: Clay Montgomery (Texas Instruments)
Date/Time: Tuesday (September 22, 2009) 5:45pm — 7:00pm
Location (room): 200
Slides: OMAP_Graphics_ESC.ppt

BeagleBoard.org Users Group Meeting
Date/Time: Tuesday (September 22, 2009) 7:00pm — ???
Location (room): 200

Silicon Valley 2009

Silicon Valley 2009 Build Your Own Embedded System track

Slides

• ESC-120: BeagleBoard 101
• ESC-140: 3D User Interface
• ESC-160: Kill Bugs
• ESC-180: Bluetooth
• ESC-228: GStreamer
• ESC-268: Android

Image

Download the following image and use it to program your SD card utilizing the utility ' dd ' ( zcat esc2009sj.v12.img.gz | dd of= /path/to/drive bs=8388608 ).

The win32 image writer tool might also work well for this.

• esc2009sj.v12.img.gz

Boston 2008

Content from the 2008 presentations can be found at beagleboard.org/demo/esc.