{"id":226769,"date":"2026-03-23T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/beaglebadge-and-zepto-doom-on-e-ink\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:25:09","slug":"beaglebadge-and-zepto-doom-on-e-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/beaglebadge-and-zepto-doom-on-e-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"BeagleBadge and Zepto: Doom on E-Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elektormagazine.com\/news\/beaglebadge-zepto-doom\">BeagleBadge and Zepto: Doom on E-Ink<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elektormagazine.com\/news\/beaglebadge-zepto-doom\">https:\/\/www.elektormagazine.com\/news\/beaglebadge-zepto-doom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-23 14:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.elektormagazine.com\">www.elektormagazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BeagleBadge and Zepto were two of the more memorable things in my short chat with Texas Instruments\u2019s Andrei Aldea: a low-power AM62L badge that can run Linux and even Doom on e-ink, plus tiny $1 MSPM0 boards that extend I\/O over Qwiic. Taken together, they sketch out a surprisingly approachable way into embedded Linux, wireless connectivity, and fast hardware experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>BeagleBadge and Zepto made for tow of the more interesting embedded demos in this Elektor TV interview: an AM62L-based badge that can idle for weeks, wake up to run Linux, and, yes, put Doom on an e-ink display. That sounds like a gimmick until you look at the real point of the platform: approachable embedded Linux, low-power design, and expansion without dragging half a lab onto the bench.<\/p>\n<h2>BeagleBadge and Zepto in Action<\/h2>\n<p>In my chat with Texas Instruments\u2019s Andrei Aldea, the BeagleBoard-built badge was positioned as a friendly starting point for developers who want to learn Arm and embedded Linux without starting from a bare module.<\/p>\n<p>he platform combines dual-core A53 processing, CC33-based Wi-Fi\u00a06 and BLE\u00a05.4, LoRa support, Qwiic expansion, GPS add-ons over UART, and compatibility with mikroBUS Click boards. If you want a refresher on embedded Linux fundamentals, this is exactly the kind of board that makes the theory tangible, and the wireless side lines up with TI&#8217;s CC3301 companion IC family.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DOOM on e-ink? BeagleBadge AM62L \u2014 Linux, Zephyr, and Low-Power Expansion. Also: TI\u2019s $1 Zepto Board\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aKrg3eVRywg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Why the Doom Demo Works<\/h2>\n<p>The headline-grabber is obvious: Doom running on e-ink. But the more interesting part is what the demo says about the hardware. Aldea showed a platform that can sip power in sleep mode for 30-plus days, use a replaceable Nokia BL-5C-style battery, boot from onboard SPI flash or microSD, and even drive an external DSI display at up to 1080p and 60\u00a0Hz.<\/p>\n<p>A presentation slide outlines the BeagleBadge hardware, including the AM62L processor, CC3301 wireless, 256\u00a0MB LPDDR4, 4\u00a0GB flash, and a 107\u00a0mm&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elektormagazine.com\/news\/beaglebadge-zepto-doom\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BeagleBadge and Zepto: Doom on E-Ink https:\/\/www.elektormagazine.com\/news\/beaglebadge-zepto-doom Publish Date: 2026-03-23 14:15:00 Source Domain: www.elektormagazine.com BeagleBadge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.xingosoftware.com\/elektor\/images\/fetch\/dpr_1\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elektormagazine.com%2Fassets%2Fupload%2Fimages%2F42%2F20260323191328_beaglebadge-zepto-doom-demo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-226769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226771,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226769\/revisions\/226771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}