Steven F. Barrett, professor of ECE and Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the University of Wyoming has been writing educational journal articles and textbooks for use in microcontroller and embedded systems courses for over 13 years. A prolific and inspired writer, … Continue reading Educator Highlight: Steven F. Barrett, Author, Embedded Systems Educator and Beagle Lover
This summer, three students successfully completed Google Summer of Code 2018 (GSoC) projects mentored by BeagleBoard.org®. GSoC, sponsored by Google, is a global program in it’s thirteenth year, focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development during a … Continue reading GSoC 2018 Brings Students and BeagleBoard.org® Mentors Together
BeagleBoard.org® Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is announcing a new program as part of our continued commitment to education in the use of open-source software and hardware. Educators in schools can apply for the opportunity to receive up to 30 PocketBeagle® boards from the BeagleBoard.org® Foundation. The … Continue reading Great Teaching Ideas Can Recieve a Lab of BeagleBoard.org® PocketBeagle® Boards
BeagleBoard.org® is a sponsor of World Maker Faire® 2018 in the New York Hall of Science. We will be hosting talks and demos. Stay tuned to this page as the schedule develops for updated times and locations: Friday, Sept 21, … Continue reading Join BeagleBoard.org® at World Maker Faire in New York, Sept 21-23
It came naturally to Dr Yoder to want to bring the new concept of Open Source Embedded Linux Computing to his students using the BeagleBoard®
Continue reading Educator Highlight: Mark Yoder, Trailblazer in Teaching Embedded Linux
Brian Benchoff writes on the Hackaday blog: Turning The Beaglebone On A Chip Into A 3D Printer Controller It’s understood that 3D printers and CNC machines need to control motors, but there are a few other niceties that are always good … Continue reading Revolve at Midwest RepRap Fest
Embedded Apprentice Linux Engineer (E-ALE) is a series of 9 seminars over 3 days at existing Embedded Linux conferences: Are you an Embedded Engineer who is transitioning to using Linux? Attend seminars on how to start with using Linux for … Continue reading Embedded Apprentice Linux Engineer (E-ALE)
Ken Shirriff has written an excellent in-depth look at the PocketBeagle: Hands-on with the PocketBeagle: A $25 Linux Computer The PocketBeagle is a tiny but powerful inexpensive key-fob-sized open source Linux computer. It has 44 digital I/O pins, 8 analog … Continue reading Ken Shirriff goes hands-on with the PocketBeagle
New blog post from BeagleBoard and BeagleBone co-creator Jason Kridner: Much has been made of the complexities of the Linux device tree configuration mechanism–it is both a savior and a curse. It saves us from needing to maintain custom kernel logic for every possible board and daughterboard (Cape or PocketCape) setup and curses us with a new syntax to configure all of the specifics of […] via Building a device tree overlay for your new PocketCape design Continue reading Building a device tree overlay for your new PocketCape design
Much has been made of the complexities of the Linux device tree configuration mechanism–it is both a savior and a curse. It saves us from needing to maintain custom kernel logic for every possible board and daughterboard (Cape or PocketCape) … Continue reading Building a device tree overlay for your new PocketCape design
Bring some cheer to the holiday season with this PocketBeagle project: PocketBeagle Wearable Tops off Your Holidays Use the BeagleBoard.org PocketBeagle with motion sensor to activate LEDs on your DIY “ugly Christmas” wearables. Fun and easy to learn! BeagleBoard.org PocketBeagle … Continue reading PocketBeagle Wearable Tops off Your Holidays
Software support for the BeagleWire FPGA cape was developed by Patryk Mężydło for Google Summer of Code 2017. Now the actual hardware will soon be available from Crowd Supply: BeagleWire: Fully Open ICE40 FPGA BeagleBone Cape BeagleWire is a completely open source FPGA … Continue reading BeagleWire: Fully Open ICE40 FPGA BeagleBone Cape
It was announced a day or two ago, but now the PocketBone has made its first real-world appearance at the World Maker Faire in New York this weekend. This is a tiny, tiny Linux computer that’s small enough to fit … Continue reading PocketBeagle demos at Maker Faire New York
Mike Szczys writes about 2017 Open Hardware Summit last week in Denver: Hackaday’s Open Hardware Summit Experience This yearly gathering brings together the people and businesses that hold Open Hardware as an ideal to encourage, grow, and live by. There was … Continue reading Hackaday’s Open Hardware Summit Experience
This Friday: Jason Kridner will joining Hackaday’s weekly Hack Chat to talk BeagleBone, PocketBeagle, the BeagleBoard.org community and more! Friday Hack Chat: The Incredible BeagleBoard Topics for this Hack Chat will include the direction BeagleBoard is going, the communities involved with BeagleBoard, … Continue reading Friday Hack Chat with Jason Kridner
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
Patryk Mężydło has posted the final video for his Google Summer of Code 2017 project GSoC17 Project: BeagleWire software support – final presentation The task is to create software support for FPGA cape (based on iCE40 device). The completed project will … Continue reading GSoC 2017: BeagleWire software support
Brian Benchoff writes on Hackaday about the latest project from Kumar Abhishek: Hackaday Prize Entry: BeagleLogic Standalone A few years ago, [Kumar] created the BeagleLogic, a 14-channel, 100 MSPS logic analyzer for the BeagleBone as an entry for the Hackaday Prize. This … Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: BeagleLogic Standalone
Kuldeep Singh Dhaka has designed a miniature hardware terminal: diy-VT100 A small VT100 that you can carry in your hands, connect to any hardware that provide serial interface. Here’s a video of the diy-VT100 meeting the BeagleBone Black: Continue reading diy-VT100 meets BeagleBone Black
Inderpreet Singh writes on the Hackaday blog about Henner Zeller’s latest project: Laser PCBs with LDGraphy There are many, many ways to get a PCB design onto a board for etching. Even with practice however, the quality of the result varies … Continue reading Laser PCBs with LDGraphy