element14 Community launches global design competition

element14’s ‘BeagleBone Black Radio Challenge’, a design competition for participants to develop an innovative internet radio, has received early entries from Australia, Japan and India.

In this challenge for the creation of an innovative, fully featured internet/digital radio, the BeagleBone Black has been bundled with a 4.3″ LCD screen cape, compact USB wi-fi adapter with 4″ antenna, Adafruit power adapter, Adafruit BBB case and Adafruit Software Defined Radio Receiver USB Stick.

Designed to address the open-source community and anyone interested in ARM Cortex-A8-based processor, it can connect with the internet and run software such as Angstrom and Ubuntu.

Selected participants will start their reviews and blog on 17 February and complete, by 28 March, details of their project as they progress; including videos, diagrams and code samples. The most intriguing, engaging materials for a fully operational internet/digital radio will win a grand prize from Texas Instruments.