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Kinda weird that I don't see any exposed gpio pins on the board? The SoC has "up to 170" gpio pins, and especially it has those fancy PRUSSes in there, so feels like huge missed opportunity to not expose any of that?



There is the mikrobus, grove, and qwiic connectors, all of which will be GPIO, I2C and likely (for Mikrobus) SPI as well.

The reason the SoC says "up to 170" as they are multiplexed with the ethernet, display and camera interfaces, so since this board has all 3 there are likely not many GPIO actually left to pin out


> There is the mikrobus, grove, and qwiic connectors, all of which will be GPIO, I2C and likely (for Mikrobus) SPI as well.

In the block diagram I don't see any of those exposing GPIO.


Yeah that's weird to me too; the Beaglebone's claim to fame has been acres of GPIOs with powerful PRUs behind 'em. Even if it needs some fine-pitch Samtec daughterboard to break 'em out, just putting some of those GPIOs on a connector _somewhere_ would be nice.

Nobody's gonna drive a CNC machine with this, that's for sure.




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