BeaglePlay is an easy to use, affordable single board computer that allows you to create connected devices that work even at long distances. Not only that, BeaglePlay is fully open source and built on top of open standards so that you can hack and play… It’s your BeaglePlay! Continue reading BeaglePlay® from BeagleBoard.org® brings fun to building with computers
Now is a great time to check out some of the on-going projects! https://elinux.org/BeagleBoard/GSoC/2022_Projects Continue reading GSoC reaching first evaluation
Updated: BeagleBone® AI-64 represents a major milestone for BeagleBoard.org, satisfying some of the most requested features from our developer community. Continue reading BeagleBone® AI-64, our first broadly available 64-bit open hardware single board computer
This article follows two earlier blog posts about Device Tree overlays: Using Device Tree Overlays, example on BeagleBone boards Device Tree: Supporting Similar Boards – The BeagleBone Example Introduction As explained in the first two blog posts, the BeagleBone boards are supported by a wide number of extension boards, called capes. When such a cape is plugged in, the description of the devices connected to the board should be updated accordingly. As the available hardware is described by a Device Tree, the added devices on the cape should be described using a Device Tree Overlay, as described in the first … Continue reading Using the U-Boot Extension Board Manager – BeagleBone Boards Example
Most of the BeagleBone boards from BeagleBoard.org share the same form factor, have the same headers and therefore can accept the same extension boards, also known as capes in the BeagleBoard world. Of course, a careful PCB design was necessary to make this possible. This must have been relatively easy with the early models (BeagleBone Black, Black Wireless, Green, Green Wireless, Black Industrial and Enhanced) which are based on the same Sitara AM3358 System on Chip (SoC) from Texas Instruments. However, the more recent creation (2019) of the BeagleBone AI board and keeping compatibility with existing capes must have been … Continue reading Device Tree: Supporting Similar Boards – The BeagleBone Example
The concept of Device Tree overlays The Device Tree language is a way to describe hardware that is present in a system and cannot be automatically detected. That’s the case of devices directly implemented on a System on a Chip, such as serial ports, Ethernet or Nand flash controllers. That’s also the case of devices connected to a number of buses, such as I2C and SPI, that do not provide mechanisms for dynamic enumeration and identification of devices. For a given CPU architecture (ARM, PowerPC, etc), such a description allows to have a unique kernel supporting many different systems with … Continue reading Using Device Tree Overlays, example on BeagleBone Cape add-on boards
Using device trees is one of the most complicated and important, and sometimes risky, elements of using a Beagle to make use of add-on hardware. With the addition of the AM5729-based BeagleBone AI to the family of boards sporting BeagleBone headers, the complications have increased, requiring additional considerations with dependencies on different processor pins connected to different header pins and a different peripheral mix. Further, AM5729 won’t be the last processor where Beagle uses on a board with BeagleBone headers! Further, in community efforts to add dynamic support for device tree overlays into the upstream Linux, much has changed for … Continue reading Improving usage of device trees
It’s that time again, time to start gathering project ideas and possible mentors for Google Summer of Code. This year, you can be a student even if you aren’t enrolled in school! That’s got me thinking about the key areas we need to help advance education around open source embedded systems. One of the early Beagle community development focuses was software defined radio (SDR). With updates to available CBRS bands, enabling personally unlicensed 5G small cell creation, and unlicensed radio frequency (sub-GHz) low-power wireless networks like IEEE 802.15.4, LoRa, and Wi-SUN, and many new silicon solutions, there are many opportunities … Continue reading Call for topics for open-source embedded systems education projects
BeagleBoard.org has been selected as a mentoring organization for 2021 and the project possibilities this year, I believe, are especially interesting. With BeagleBone AI in production and BeagleV (RISC-V) and BeagleConnect (6lowpan subGHz wireless MCU running Zephyr) designs available in … Continue reading Students can submit proposals now for Google Summer of Code
Seeed and BeagleBoard.org® have announced an official collaboration with the leading RISC-V solutions provider, StarFive, to create the latest member of the BeagleBoard.org® series, BeagleV™ (pronounced Beagle five.) BeagleV™ is the first affordable RISC-V board designed to run Linux. BeagleV™, … Continue reading BeagleBoard.org® and Seeed Introduce the First Affordable RISC-V Board Designed to Run Linux
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
As mentioned in my New Year’s resolution, I’m going to launch some online training for embedded Linux development. Yes, this training will happen. Interest continues to build. At this point, I’m delaying until the first of our triannual image releases … Continue reading Online training update
Open hardware community advances environmental testing for COVID-19 to help clean up schools and libraries Continue reading BeagleBoard.org update for the Open Hardware Summit 2020 @ohsummit #OpenCovid19Initiative
Robert Nelson, board member and Debian image owner, recently announced a new 3-times-a-year release cycle for the BeagleBoard.org Debian images used pre-flashed onto boards and available via the latest-images page on the BeagleBoard.org website. These are the recommended default images … Continue reading New BeagleBoard Debian image release cycle
Just a few days left for students to submit proposals to the official @gsoc site. Help guide the students by joining the forum (bbb.io/gsocml) and live chat (bbb.io/gsocchat) now! Continue reading BeagleBoard.org GSoC is heating up
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Read the article about how they did it on Makezine: https://makezine.com/2020/01/08/how-two-california-kids-overcame-doubters-to-automate-the-freshest-burger-ever-served/ Continue reading Worlds best cheeseburger is made by BeagleBone
We couldn’t be more proud to be back for our 9th year as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. This is an amazing program offering amazing opportunities for both mentors and students. Now’s the time to get involved. … Continue reading Mentoring Organization for GSoC 2020!
Join BeagleBoard.org® at Embedded World 2020, Booth 3A-238 February 25-27 in Nuremburg, Germany Continue reading Visit BeagleBoard.org at Embedded World 2020
As you might know, the BeagleBoard.org Foundation is dedicated to education in and collaboration around the design and use of open-source software and hardware in embedded computing. For me, this mission really is world changing important. Every aspect of our … Continue reading Jason’s New Year’s Resolutions