The TU Delft Solar Boat Team used the BeagleBone® Black in their most ambitious design and won in the world championships. Continue reading BeagleBone® Black Helps Team Bring in a Win for Sustainability
BeagleBoard.org® is celebrating ten years of open-source hardware and open-source software development by our community using the vast variety of BeagleBone® and BeagleBoard® single board computers. in just 2 minutes, this video compiles a selection of projects over ten years … Continue reading 10 Years of Open Source Electronics Projects Video
Little did Stephan von Muehlen, CEO of Poursteady, know five years ago that helping out two engineering friends at a World MakerFaire demo would be the start of a successful, global, commercial coffee equipment company. Poursteady, is a unique IoT … Continue reading Poursteady: From BeagleBone® Maker Project to Global Coffee Equipment Company
by Natalie Nelms Weve all heard about the trend of 3D printing thats on the rise and breaking into many different industries, from automotive to fashion, Makers have embraced 3D printing on a whole new level and many have presented their creations to the public. At least thats what maker Robert Berger did. He demonstrated his 3D printing project, Emmelia, at the Embedded Linux Conference 2014 at the Yocto booth. Berger began the project after purchasing a 3D printer kit. The software included open source, which he said was quite stable, and not Linux (8-bit AVR) so he saw room … Continue reading Project Spotlight: Emmelia – Yocto powered 3D Printer prototype
by Natalie Nelms If you are what you eat, then it’s important to avoid putting pathogens and viruses into your body, right? Nobody wants to be a germ. It should come as no surprise that the produce we fill our plates with can host a wide variety of illness-causing bacteria like E. coli or salmonella. While this may be a distressing thought, innovations in technology have presented us with ways to detect harmful microbes to ensure that only the best fruits and veggies enter our bodies. One such technological development comes in the form of the Open qPCR – a … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight: Open qPCR
By Natalie Nelms Not only mans best friend, the Pick n Paste is now a makers best friend! Carbide Labs, a startup out of Philadelphia, is developing a desktop circuit assembly tool that is enough to melt any makers heart thanks to its capability to cut both the time and cost of a prototyping project. Not only does the Pick n Paste place components on an unpopulated board for you, but it also goes one step further by applying solder paste, which can be used to secure the components through a separate baking step. All you have to do is … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight: Pick n Paste
By Natalie Nelms Its amazing what you can create when you pair a few spare parts lying around and an inventive imagination. In this instance, these ingredients gave birth to BeagleBot a small test robot for localization algorithms! After seeing demos of SLAM at home brew robotics society meetings, along with people using Kinects as cheap lidars, I was hooked on robot localization, explained BeagleBots creator Nathaniel Lewis on the origins of this project. I wanted to learn everything I could about these algorithms and I needed a test platform. So, I took parts I had laying around the … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight: BeagleBot
By Natalie Nelms Oh, the places youll go when using three BeagleBone Blacks! Maker and engineering expert Trefor Delve explored this idea by developing a parallel simulation proof of concept that ran on three Sitara-processor-powered BeagleBone Blacks in order to implement a MIL-STD-1553 bus system and interface to real and virtual hardware. There is always a need during a development to be able to scale performance as computational needs increase, Delve explained as he discussed the inspiration behind the project. This raises its own issues in terms of how to provide that capability. Add to that the problem that often … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight: Implementing MIL-STD-1553 with three Beagles
By Natalie Nelms You dont have to be a child to play with remote-controlled cars. The BeagleROV is an exciting toy that would bring any adult Maker back to the good ole days except this robot packs a bit more punch than the classic Nascar minis. Powered by the TI Sitara AM335x processor-based BeagleBone Black, the BeagleROV has a multitude of capabilities that are all controlled remotely via the robots web application. In addition to the vehicles remotely controlled technology, the BeagleROV includes the following features: Wi-Fi access to the web app with an adhoc Wi-Fi network … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight: BeagleROV
By Natalie Nelms Standing in line for coffee, a commercial break, boiling water all things that only take a matter of minutes. What if building circuit boards were that easy and time efficient? At New York startup company BotFactory, devices print and assemble electronic circuit boards from your desktop in a matter of minutes. Creating electronic devices has never been easier. While attending the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, BotFactory co-founders, Carlos Ospina and Nicolas Vansnick, were presented with the challenge to design, assemble and test a basic EEG system in their bio-electronics class. While the design of the … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight: Squink
By Natalie Nelms Computer numerical control (CNC) milling machines have been around for decades. Most are industrial-sized, and are used create everything from the shaped trim on a house to the mechanical components of a space shuttle. Over the last decade, a large do-it-yourself community has emerged giving a new market to CNC milling machines as personal, rather than solely industrial applications. Matt, Michelle, Gary, Duane and Bannor from Pocket NC have always been tinkerers and enjoy pursuing projects from their homes. After searching long and hard for a personal desktop mill, Matt and his team turned to the Sitara-processor-based … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight: Pocket NC P5
Commuting in a big city is a tough task, especially when public transit and traffic congestion make the process even more difficult. For someone who is blind, finding your way around the city on public transportation in these conditions can seem daunting, or nearly impossible. Marcelo Gutierrez recognized this issue and wanted to do something about it. Marcelo is a university professor teaching digital signal processing and Linux-embedded courses. He designed and developed the Kuyurix, an audio-based system to assist people who are blind on public bus transportation. It notifies passengers of upcoming main streets and approaching points of interests, … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight blog post: Kuyurix Bus Speakers
Did you know that The New York Times writes itself? No, not the newspaper-but objects at The New York Times R&D Lab have “thoughts” of their own that they journal for our reading pleasure. The New York Times R&D Lab has created Object Record, a device that pairs objects with sensors that perceive environmental conditions around it through touch, motion and more. Object Record prints a constant monologue of its perceptions of and responses to the changing input. The text of this monologue is printed out in ticker form on a mini printer so that visitors can see not only the current “thoughts” of Object Record, but … Continue reading Project Spotlight: Object Record
BeagleBone project spotlight: CryptoCape When I think of cryptography, I think of movies like Sneakers, U571 and Pi. However, Josh Datko’s new solution will put cryptography in the hands of every developer not only submariners (even though Josh happens to be one) and MENSA-level mathematicians so that everyone from students and garage developers to professional engineers can secure their projects. Josh and his company Cryptotronix, in collaboration with SparkFun Electronics, are creating the CryptoCape for BeagleBone Black. The CryptoCape is an open-source hardware collection of cryptographic modules that extends the hardware cryptographic abilities of BeagleBone Black. The computer … Continue reading BeagleBone project spotlight: CryptoCape
The SoundsCape adds a codec to the McASP bus for Line In, Line Out, and Headset (microphone in + headphone out). It also adds an HCI Bluetooth 4.0 Module for Bluetooth Audio (A2DP), BT Hands free (HFP), or SPP, with all Bluetooth profiles are supported by the cape. (Image courtesy of Simple Media Networks) We interviewed Cory Henderson, Electrical Engineer at Simple Media Networks about the SoundsCape and its features with the BeagleBone Black. When asked about the inspiration for the SoundsCape, Cory filled us in. “Originally, we developed a Bluetooth add-on card for the BeagleBoard xM based on the … Continue reading Turn Up The Volume On Your BeagleBone Black
Some unlikely combinations just seem to work: Oreos and peanut butter, Dwight Schrute and Michael Scott and now Arduino and BeagleBone Black! With the new Shield I/O, you can now use (almost) any Arduino shield with a BeagleBone Black. The Shield I/O, created by Andreas Behrend, adapts Arduino shields to be BeagleBone Black compatible, it doesn’t matter if you’re using 3.3V or 5V logic or up to 5V analog inputs. Precise resistor arrays divide the analog inputs and make it an option to measure up to 5V. Shield I/O comes with dedicated level shifters for all 14 digital GPIO pins, … Continue reading BeagleBone Black Project Spotlight: Shield I/O
By Tara Stratton Dont drink and drive, unless you are the driver of todays featured Beagle project. That is, unless you are… a fish! Goldfish can now explore the world beyond the limits of the tank with Fish on Wheels, a robotic car from Studio diip, a design shop in the Netherlands. Fish on Wheels has made a splash (pun intended!) in publications from Discovery and Popular Science to Hackaday and Geek.com, receiving popular acclaim from people who wanted their own goldfish at home to be able to put the pedal to the metal. Image credit: Studio diip As the … Continue reading BeagleBoard-xM project spotlight: Fish on Wheels
Imagine having the ability to personalize your Christmas tree lights. When the holiday is approaching and its time for your family tradition of picking a tree, baking cookies, and putting on the garland, lights, ornaments, and big star on top, it seems like there is always something wrong with the lights! A few bulbs have gone out, some are missing, and you find yourself scrambling around trying to find replacements to put in to make sure your tree still shines bright next holiday season. A holiday humbug situation like this is just what Mark Yoder and the students in his … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight: Rose-Hulman ECE Christmas lights
By Tara Stratton ForestDew Apiaries, located in Ottawa, Ontario, has been keeping, testing and trying 20 strains of bees from all over the world for 13 years. They pride themselves on coming up with innovative products and solutions in the bee industry, and their BeeDome is definitely one of these solutions. The BeeDome is a system to control the environment of indoor nucleus colonies (nucs) where small honey bees are kept indoors over the winter months. The BeeDome extends the bee breading season so ForestDew can offer strong, healthy nucs to beekeepers early in the spring at reasonable prices to … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight: The BeeDome
As Alex Neskin slipped out the front door for work, he couldnt help but feel the heartache as he heard the barks and cries from his Chihuahua, Rocky. It was the same routine every day. He would try to sneak out the door attempting to be unnoticed by Rocky, but every time the door would shut, the barking and crying would start. The separation anxiety not only took a toll on him and Rocky, but even the neighbors when they had to deal with the unnerving sound of a barking dog. This separation anxiety is what led Alex to create … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight: Petcube