RE: [yocto] Looking for Yocto-supported Reference Design

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Raj, Richard, John,

               Thank you for the excellent suggestions! John, It’s good to know that you are working on a similar project. I will run these ideas down.

               David

 

From: yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org <yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org> On Behalf Of John
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 6:12 AM
To: yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org; richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] Looking for Yocto-supported Reference Design

 

David,

 

I've started on exactly the same kind of project for my own purposes. I've been using a Raspberry Pi 0 2W for my development. I needed the wifi and BT connectivity so I started with it. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

 

Cheers!!

 

On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM Richard Purdie via lists.yoctoproject.org <http://lists.yoctoproject.org>  <richard.purdie=linuxfoundation.org@lists.yoctoproject.org <mailto:linuxfoundation.org@lists.yoctoproject.org> > wrote:

Hi David,

On Mon, 2026-05-11 at 13:53 -0700, dave via lists.yoctoproject.org <http://lists.yoctoproject.org>  wrote:
>       My name is David Richards and I am blind. I am new to Yocto. I would
> like to build a portable talking e-book reader. The goal is to support
> DAISY, Audible, Kindle, and epub books. In addition, I would like to be able
> to stream MP3 content. To that end, I am looking for a reference design to
> base the project on. It does not require/use a display or touchpad. The user
> interface will utilize buttons and speech output. The design should have
> existing Yocto support, if possible.
>       Does anyone have any pointers for a reference design I could start
> with?

There are many boards with OE/Yocto Project support. You can get an
idea of them all from the layer index's list of machines which is
showing 22 pages of them! 

https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/machines/?q= <https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/machines/?q=&browse=1> &browse=1

Some have better support than others, we've had the Beagle devices like
the BeaglePlay and earlier devices like the BeagleBone and BeagleBoard
supported as one of our test platforms for a long time. That has basic
support in meta-yocto with beaglebone-yocto and a full BSP from TI as
well. There are others like the various RaspberryPis and may more,
including more experimental ones with RISC-V processors.

It sounds like the audio output might be important to you and however
you plan to interface the buttons to the system so that may be
something to factor in. You might need USB? That might narrow down your
choice. I'd probably try and find a board which holds interest to you
as well.

Cheers,

Richard










 

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