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Working on an Open Source Hardware Project? This is your opportunity to share it at the next Open Source Hardware Summit in March 2020 at New York

Rolly Seth

The Open Source Hardware Summit (OHS) is inviting talk/demo proposals for the tenth annual summit! To be held on Friday, March 13,2020 at the NYU School of Law https://2020.oshwa.org/apply The Open Source Hardware Summit is for presenting, discussing, and learning about open hardware of all kinds. The summit examines open hardware applications, practices, and theory, ranging from environmental sensors to 3D printable medical devices to open hardware processors and beyond. We are interested in open hardware on its own as well as in relation to topics such as software, design, business, law, and education.  For our tenth edition we are … Continue reading Working on an Open Source Hardware Project? This is your opportunity to share it at the next Open Source Hardware Summit in March 2020 at New York

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BeagleBoard.org® Launches BeagleBone® AI, Offering a Fast Track to Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence at the Edge

jkridner

BeagleBone® AI is your fast track to embedded artificial intelligence at the edge. The fastest and most flexible BeagleBone yet builds on a decade of success in open hardware single board Linux computers built to educate and help you automate your home, office, lab or manufacturing floor. Continue reading BeagleBoard.org® Launches BeagleBone® AI, Offering a Fast Track to Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence at the Edge

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OreSat Uses PocketBeagle® to Provide STEM Motivation With Giant “Selfie-Stick” from Space

Cathy Wicks

When the Portland State Aerospace Society started in 1999, the members likely never imagined their open source amateur rocket avionics systems would someday actually make it to space. Twenty years later, thanks to NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, or CSLI, they … Continue reading OreSat Uses PocketBeagle® to Provide STEM Motivation With Giant “Selfie-Stick” from Space

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BeagleBone® Helps Preserve The History of Apollo’s “Hidden Figures”

Cathy Wicks

Navigating to the moon and landing on its surface during the NASA Apollo missions 50 years ago took some fascinating engineering within the spacecraft.  The Apollo Guidance Computer or AGC was key to guiding the craft and to the success of the mission. … Continue reading BeagleBone® Helps Preserve The History of Apollo’s “Hidden Figures”

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NASA, T STAR and TAMU Students Drive Space Experimentation Using BeagleBone® Black

Cathy Wicks

Space researchers on Earth now have a powerful new way to remotely conduct experiments. Texas A&M University engineering students have been working with NASA Engineers, JSC Scientists and T STAR, a space commercialization company to successfully deploy an experiment station … Continue reading NASA, T STAR and TAMU Students Drive Space Experimentation Using BeagleBone® Black

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BeagleBoard.org® Community Kicks off GSoC 2019 with Four Projects

Cathy Wicks

This summer, four student projects in the Google Summer of Code 2019 (GSoC) will be mentored by BeagleBoard.org®. GSoC, sponsored by Google, is a global program in it’s fourteenth year, focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development during a 3 month programming project.

After going through a detailed and thorough application process the following four projects will be developed this summer. Check out the intro videos from each student:

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BeagleBone® AI Makes a Sneak Preview

Christine Long

A new BeagleBone® made a sneak preview at Embedded World in Germany. Filling the gap between small single board computers (SBCs) and large powerful industrial computers, BeagleBone® AI  (https://beagleboard.org/ai) brings the open source Linux approach to Artificial Intelligence applications development. … Continue reading BeagleBone® AI Makes a Sneak Preview

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Join BeagleBoard.org® at Maker Faire Bay Area 2019

Cathy Wicks

Autonomous Vehicles, Robots and Projects, TechLab® and More!  Join BeagleBoard.org@ at Maker Faire Bay Area this Month!   May 17-19, 2019 at the San Mateo County Event Center.  This is one event you don’t want to miss! Meet us at the … Continue reading Join BeagleBoard.org® at Maker Faire Bay Area 2019

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10 Years of Open Source Electronics Projects Video

Cathy Wicks

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

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Ten BeagleBoard.org® PocketBeagle® Beginner’s Projects Share Getting Started Tips

Cathy Wicks

Want to get started on your own PocketBeagle® project? You can today!  Because BeagleBoard.org® supports both open source hardware and software, we have a large, supportive community sharing projects. A great way to begin your own project is to get … Continue reading Ten BeagleBoard.org® PocketBeagle® Beginner’s Projects Share Getting Started Tips

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Calling all Students and Mentors: Applications Now Open to Join BeagleBoard.org for GSoC 2019

Cathy Wicks

Google Summer of Code (GSoc) is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. We are excited that BeagleBoard.org has been again accepted as an open source community to mentor students in projects for the … Continue reading Calling all Students and Mentors: Applications Now Open to Join BeagleBoard.org for GSoC 2019

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Two New PocketBeagle Capes Debut at Embedded World

Christine Long

The leading international trade show and conference for embedded systems with over 32,000 visitors was the perfect place for the PocketBeagle® TechLab Cape and the PocketBeagle® GamePup Cape to make their debut. With plenty of IO and interesting features, these two additions to PocketBeagle® are a great way to have fun while learning embedded programming or to start a larger project. Continue reading “Two New PocketBeagle Capes Debut at Embedded World”

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Inspiring Students in Slovenia: BeagleBone® Blue Based Micromouse

Cathy Wicks

Maze solving robots are one of the most engaging ways to expose teens to engineering, electronics and coding.  At the University of Ljubljana, the oldest and largest university in Slovenia, high school students are doing exciting work with robotic “mice” based … Continue reading Inspiring Students in Slovenia: BeagleBone® Blue Based Micromouse

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Still Seats Available in the PocketBeagle® Workshop Today Embedded World

Cathy Wicks

A few seats are still available for a no-additional-cost Hands-On Coding Workshop with BeagleBoard.org® PocketBeagle® , TODAY – February 27, 2019 from 2:30-5:30pm.  Room: Krakau Register at the conference desk in NCC Ost Join our co-founder, Jason Kridner.  This getting started workshop with … Continue reading Still Seats Available in the PocketBeagle® Workshop Today Embedded World

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Berkeley Students Mentor High School Robotics using BeagleBone® Black

Cathy Wicks

Pioneers in Engineering at UC Berkeley is a student outreach organization passionate that no student should be denied a quality STEM education experience. The university student members promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education through an exciting, mentorship-based robotics … Continue reading Berkeley Students Mentor High School Robotics using BeagleBone® Black

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Getting Started with Elementary School Students and PocketBeagle®

Christine Long

I met 9 year old Charlie Jaffe and his dad, Doug at MakerFaire New York in September 2018 at our BeagleBoard.org® educational booth in the MakerShed. Charlie is a passionate young developer who enjoyed our demos at the booth using … Continue reading Getting Started with Elementary School Students and PocketBeagle®

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BeagleBoard.org® Members Elected to Board of Open Source Hardware Association

Cathy Wicks

BeagleBoard.org® is proud to announce two of our board members have been elected as OSHWA board members!  Both Jason Kridner and Drew Fustini will be joining the 2018-2020 board. The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) is a non-profit organization that … Continue reading BeagleBoard.org® Members Elected to Board of Open Source Hardware Association

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Educator Highlight: Derek Molloy, Teaching with PocketBeagle® and More in New Book

Cathy Wicks

Derek Molloy, announces the inclusion of PocketBeagle® and BeagleBone® Black Wireless into the second edition of the popular book, Exploring BeagleBone®: Tools and Techniques for Building with Embedded Linux 2nd Edition.   He also talks to us about introducing new development platforms into … Continue reading Educator Highlight: Derek Molloy, Teaching with PocketBeagle® and More in New Book