ARM Community: BeagleBone Searches for a New Cape Plug-in Board - ARM Community

Do you have what it takes to develop the next great cape plug-in board for BeagleBone? If so, enter the BeagleBone Cape Plug-in Board Design Contest. If you’re among the top three contestants selected, you’ll receive $1,000, third party tools, an article about you and your design in production with CircuitCo.

Furthermore, if you’re among the next 5 entrants into the contest, you’ll get a BeagleBone or a BeagleBoard-xM for free, so hurry and submit your design today!

BeagleBone is a pocket-sized expandable Linux computer that can connect to the Internet and runs software such as Android 4.0 and Ubuntu. Thanks to generous I/O and ARM processing power designed for real-time analysis provided by the Sitara™ AM335x ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor from Texas Instruments, cape plug-in boards help designers differentiate products and get to market faster.

To get your mind churning, a few examples of popular capes include: BeagleBone Weather Cape, BeagleBone DVI-D Cape, BeagleBone Battery Cape and LCD touch screen capes (in various sizes). For a complete listing of the current cape plug-in boards, click here.

Contestants of the BeagleBone Cape Plug-in Board Design Contest have until Dec. 31, 2012 to submit an original cape plug-in board design complete with a schematic, a bill of materials (BOM), and a video describing the cape idea that has been uploaded to YouTube. Check out the contest page for more information and to read about your chance to win third party tools via our weekly trivia contests,which are open to anyone.

On Jan. 7, 2013, a listing of all the submitted entries that meet the minimum requirements stated on Beagleboard.org/CapeContest will be published. A judging panel led by BeagleBoard.org, TI and CircuitCo will determine the three contest winners. The online community can show its support via Google+ and Facebook Likes. Winners will be announced Jan. 14, 2013.

Be sure to check out all the current cape offerings at www.beaglebonecapes.com. Good luck!

Guest Partner Blogger:
Jason Kridner is the Software Architecture Manager for Texas Instruments (TI) Sitara™ ARM® processors and an active leader in TI’s open source initiative. Kridner has become a champion of open-source and helped create Beagleboard.org, a robust resource where makers receive feedback, download software and gain access to all layers of optimized system-on-chip semiconductor solutions. Kridner’s responsibilities include definition of the software components, development platforms, and support processes used to engage customers and leading new software technology. During his 20-year tenure with TI, he has lead software development of low-power media software, audio processing, file systems, USB drivers, digital rights management, and video codecs as well helped broaden the market Applications Processors with focus on the role of embedded software architecture and support. Kridner graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering.

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