Hacklet 35 – BeagleBone Projects

Library upgrade to PRU gives Fast IO on Beaglebone

More solutions to ease the use of the fast-I/O microcontrollers on BeagleBone Black

Time for another Google Summer of Code

by Jason Kridner Google starts accepting applications for potential mentoring organizations on today, February 9th. BeagleBoard.org is going to send in an application. Your help is needed to make that application as strong as it can be! Sign up on the mailing list: http://bit.ly/bbgsocml Join the eLinux wiki and review/update the ideas page: http://bit.ly/bbgsocideas Prospective mentors: update […]

Passion Project Turns BeagleBone into Standalone Super NES

How does BeagleBone Black compare to Raspberry Pi 2?

by Jason Kridner As many of you might have heard, Raspberry Pi launched their next board, the Raspberry Pi 2. There have been noticeable differences in the primary processor performance from the original Pi to Pi 2. This has cause a lot of people to revisit the question of how the BeagleBone Black compares to […]

Declaring the Drought is Officially Over

by Jason Kridner It was April last year when I wrote about how we were going to fix the board shortage. Demand and activity have only increased since then, but the additional production capacity has paid off and there is now inventory of both the official BeagleBoard.org BeagleBone Black manufactured by CircuitCo and the logo-compliant […]

Thought Leadership Regarding the Internet of Things

With browsers and rich applications available to us everywhere, desires for information and control are growing astronomically. Entrepreneurial, design and cross-discipline engineering skills are all required to launch a successful connected device. Thankfully, Brian DeLacey with other technology enthusiasts around Cambridge and Boston are exploring what it takes to educate individuals and teams on the […]

Working with PWM on a BeagleBone Black

Updates on using #BeagleBoneBlack PWM pins using the relatively new ‘config-pin’ utility.

The Year of the Beagle

by Jason Kridner 2014 has been an amazing year for BeagleBoard.org and BeagleBone Black, the most successful open hardware computer ever invented. I know what you are thinking; “Jason, didn’t that board from the UK outsell BeagleBone Black?” Sure, but that board isn’t open hardware: there aren’t open source layout files or open source editable schematics […]

The Megascroller, For Video Games In The Round