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Jason Kridner and Andrew McPherson discuss the importance of open source hardware in building platforms for other hardware companies.

Jason Kridner, founder of BeagleBoard.org, and Andrew McPherson, cofounder of Bela and professor at Imperial College London, build the platforms that other hardware companies build on. Jason started Beagle inside Texas Instruments to give open source software a capable ARM board to run on. Andrew built Bela because no laptop could deliver the sub-millisecond audio latency a musical instrument needs. A decade later, Bela's newest product runs on a PocketBeagle 2, the company runs out of a rese...

People in this episode

Guests: Jason Kridner, Andrew McPherson

Topics covered

• open source hardware
• closed-source shops
• audio latency
• BeagleBoard
• Bela
• hardware platforms

Keywords

• open source
• hardware
• BeagleBoard
• Bela
• audio latency
• Texas Instruments
• PocketBeagle

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BeagleBoard.org, Bela, Imperial College London, Texas Instruments

Products: PocketBeagle 2

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