Students can now apply to work with the BeagleBoard.org Foundation for Google Summer of Code: BeagleBoard.org Foundation Refer to our previous post for more GSoC information Continue reading Apply for Google Summer of Code
BeagleBone Blue video featuring Jason Kridner that was played in our booth at Embedded World: All About Circuits writes about the Blue: BeagleBone Blue for Robotics Applications The BeagleBone Blue is now available. You can learn more about this open … Continue reading BeagleBone Blue at Embedded World (part 2)
ARMDevices.net video of the new BeagleBone Blue with Jason Kridner in our BeagleBoard.org Foundation booth at Embedded World: Find out more about the new BeagleBone Blue: Meet BeagleBone® Blue. Robots. Fast. Continue reading BeagleBone Blue at Embedded World
Meet BeagleBone® Blue. Robots. Fast. BeagleBone® Blue is the affordable and complete robotics controller built around the popular BeagleBone® open hardware computer. Linux-enabled, Blue is community-supported and fully open-source. High-performance, flexible networking capabilities are coupled with a real-time capable Linux system and a compelling set of peripherals for building mobile robots quickly and affordably. By utilizing the pre-configured WiFi access point, starting code development is as simple as connecting a battery and opening a web browser. Robots. The electronic components needed for a wide variety of mobile and flying robots are all included. BeagleBone® Blue has onboard 2 cell (2S) … Continue reading Meet BeagleBone Blue
Alek Mabry made this tutorial for using the BeagleBone with the roboRIO for FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC): Using the roboRIO with the BeagleBone Supplies Connecting the roboRIO to the BeagleBone Connecting to your BeagleBone UDP on the roboRIO (Java) UDP on … Continue reading Using the roboRIO with the BeagleBone
We’re excited to announce that BeagleBoard.org has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2017: Interested students are encouraged to review our 2017 GSoC ideas and begin interacting with our GSoC administrators and mentors on our GSoC mailing list and … Continue reading Google Summer of Code 2017
Jim Kleiner created a minimal FPGA cape for the BeagleBone Black: BBB LX9 FPGA Board Jim describes his design decisions: I decided to try a minimalist hand solderable FPGA board. The LX9 is the largest part available in a TQG-144, beyond that … Continue reading FPGA cape for BeagleBone Black
Jon Hoffman created a Swift library for interacting with the GPIO, PWM and Analog pins on the BeagleBone Black: Jon used SwiftyBones to develop BuddyBot, the first robot programmed in the Swift: Learn more about Swift in in Jon’s book: Mastering Swift 3 … Continue reading BuddyBot: First robot programmed in Swift
The Linux Foundation’s annual Embedded Linux Conference North America is coming up in few weeks: Embedded Linux Conference 2017 February 21 – 23 in Portland, Oregon We’ll be having a “Birds of a Feather” (BoF) discussion on topics related to BeagleBoard … Continue reading Embedded Linux Conference 2017
This project on Digi-Key aims to make domestic life a bit easier: How to Make a BeagleBone-Based Appliance Notification Texter Once a washer or dryer cycle has started, users have to wait up to an hour for them to finish their … Continue reading BeagleBone Laundry Notification Texter
Fresh off his PhD dissertation, Andrew Henderson decided turn his Beagle Entertainment System (BES) into a tiny SNES cartridge console! Beagle Entertainment System Cartridge Console The Beagle Entertainment System (BES) is a suite of emulators with a GUI front-end that makes retrogaming on … Continue reading Beagle Entertainment System Cartridge Console
Greg Raven created this motor speed controller based on a Texas Instruments demonstration project. His implementation uses RemoteProc and RPMsg framework to connect the PRUs (Programmable Real-time Units) to Linux userspace. The PRUs are 32-bit RISC processors which offload real-time tasks from Linux running … Continue reading Motor Speed Control using BeagleBone PRU
Rust is a systems programming language that is quickly growing in popularity. Christopher Woodall chose Rust to develop a drink making robot powered by BeagleBone Green Wireless: Rusty Nail Christopher has written development notes about using Rust on BeagleBone: Setting up a BeagleBone with … Continue reading Blinking a LED with Rust
Greg R recently posted on the BeagleBoard.org mailing list about a BeagleBone Green project that he’s been working on: PRU Interface to ADC using RemoteProc and RPMsg The project is hosted on GitHub: Greg-R/pruadc1 The goal of this project is to … Continue reading PRU Interface to ADC using RemoteProc and RPMsg
@Adam Vadala-Roth has created a couple BeagleBone projects that others may find useful: Beaglebone Black and Breadboard Plate A 3D printable plate that holds a Beaglebone black compatible board and a breadboard together side by side. Vintage Parallax Robot Restoration … Continue reading BeagleBone projects by Adam Vadala-Roth
Christopher Rush describes an alternative way to get a BeagleBone online: How to Connect a BeagleBone Black to the Internet Using USB I was able to use my wireless internet on my laptop computer and share this with the BeagleBone with … Continue reading How to Connect a BeagleBone Black to the Internet Using USB
Slides from Jason Kridner’s talk at Open Hardware Summit 2016 last Friday in Portland: OHS2016_JasonKridner.pdf [PDF] Recorded video stream of Open Hardware Summit: Continue reading Open Hardware Summit 2016
Congratulations to the winners of the BeagleBone Black Wireless Maker Faire New York Giveaway! Boards are entering production now and should ship in November. Winners should expect to be contacted separately for their shipping address. Carsten Sewing Sam Brenner David Ryskalczyk Alice Lai Jenny Lin Laura Schroeder William Crean Dean Notarnicola Dave Crawford Jim Carlson Steve Nordhauser Betty L Rostkawski Yosef Maldonado William Porto Andrew Bregman Benjamin Spiegel NYU Robotis Design Team Cj Ocasio Kristi Fok Robert Demkowicz Kayla Cimkanski Jonathan Struebel Justin Kim Kari Waye Martin Elting David Bahar Triona Crilly Andrew Ritchie Marie Downes Brittany Wlaker For those … Continue reading BeagleBone Black Wireless winners from Maker Faire NY giveaway
Replacing the 10/100 Ethernet port with onboard 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz WiFi and Bluetooth, the popular open source BeagleBone™ Black computer now comes with built-in wireless networking capability. Based on the extremely successful open-source BeagleBone™ Black hardware design, BeagleBone™ Black Wireless is a high-expansion, maker-focused, community-supported open hardware computer created by the BeagleBoard.org Foundation. Leveraging a partnership with Octavo Systems, BeagleBone™ Black Wireless is the easiest to use and modify credit-card sized IoT Linux computer. BeagleBone™ Black Wireless was designed with maximum connectivity in mind, trading in the 10/100 Ethernet port from BeagleBone Black for a high-performance 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz WiFi … Continue reading Meet BeagleBone Black Wireless, the newest board in the BeagleBone family
New Part Day: Wireless BeagleBones On A Chip The BeagleBone is a very popular single board computer, best applied to real-time applications where you need to blink LEDs really, really fast. Over the years, the BeagleBone has been used for … Continue reading Hackaday: Wireless BeagleBones On A Chip