We love New York! The BeagleBoard.org® community gathered at World Maker Faire® 2018 sharing our love of educating with open-source software and hardware in embedded computing. Hundreds of visitors stopped by our booth in the Maker Shed sharing their project … Continue reading Empowering Innovative Education & Celebrating Community (Maker Faire NYC)
BeagleBoard.org is a sponsor of World Maker Faire 2017 this weekend in New York: We will have a demos in our BeagleBoard.org booth over the weekend along with these two talks: Addressing the question what’s new at BeagleBoard.org? by Jason Kridner Saturday, September 23, 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Zone 3 in MAKE: Electronic BeagleBoard.org started in 2008 as one the first groups that put a cost effective open source computer in hands of what is now the Maker community. Through the years many versions of boards have been released answering different needs in the community. So what’s next? BeagleBoard.org … Continue reading Meet BeagleBoard.org this weekend at World Maker Faire
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
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
By Tara Stratton The holidays are around the corner, and with them come the fun and excitement of big family gatherings. However, a lot of families are spread across the country and not able to get together for the holidays. Thats why Charles Hamilton developed GrannyCam, a safe, durable videophone that his kids can use to stay in touch with their grandparents, not only during the holiday season but throughout the year. In September, the device received great response and an Editors Choice Blue Ribbon from Make Magazine at Maker Faire New York. GrannyCam is a wireless, portable, one-touch videophone … Continue reading BeagleBone Black project spotlight: GrannyCam
There wasn’t enough time to really discover all of the BeagleBone Black projects at World Maker Faire in New York. I did post some quick pictures on Google+, but I barely had time to breathe at the Faire! OpenROV – Open hardware underwater robot Hoboken MakerBar Orbital Rendersphere – Spinning persistence of vision globe GrannyCam – Video chat for Grandma/Grandkids Matt Mets’ Crystal Gateway – Sculpture covered in LEDs Tempo Automation Electronics Factory – Desktop electronics manufacturing robot TinyG – Motion control board adds web interface through BeagleBone Black BBot – BeagleBone + FPGA remote control robot Logi-family – FPGA development … Continue reading Quick list of BeagleBone projects I saw at World Maker Faire in New York