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 […]
Carbide Labs builds Pick ‘n Paste electronics assembly machine upon BeagleBone Black
Here are two worthy campaigns looking for your support. First is Open qPCR, a DNA diagnostic tool that enables anyone to analyze the DNA in the world around them. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaibio/open-qpcr-dna-diagnostics-for-everyone Support the campaign at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaibio/open-qpcr-dna-diagnostics-for-everyone. Next is the BeagleBone Black GamingCape by Max Thrun, a $99 board with an LCD, gaming controls, audio, sensors and a […]
by Natalie Nelms If you are what you eat, then it’s important to avoid putting pathogens and viruses into your body, right? Nobody wants to be a germ. It should come as no surprise that the produce we fill our plates with can host a wide variety of illness-causing bacteria like E. coli or salmonella. […]
By Natalie Nelms Not only mans best friend, the Pick n Paste is now a makers best friend! Carbide Labs, a startup out of Philadelphia, is developing a desktop circuit assembly tool that is enough to melt any makers heart thanks to its capability to cut both the time and cost of a prototyping project. […]
Crowd funding is all the rage and with good reason. Starting up a new business venture means taking risk. If you can clearly articulate the value of what your business will create, others will be willing to share in that risk. Sometimes you share the risk with a bank in the form of a loan or […]
by Jason Kridner TL;DR – $99 BeagleBone Black GamingCape from CircuitHub In last year’s TI intern contest, Max Thrun amazed us with his incredible video of the making of the GamingCape that turned a BeagleBone Black into a handheld-gaming console running on AAA batteries. If you are like me, you immediately wanted one of your […]
Check out this #BeagleBoneBlack based coffee machine
By Natalie Nelms Its amazing what you can create when you pair a few spare parts lying around and an inventive imagination. In this instance, these ingredients gave birth to BeagleBot a small test robot for localization algorithms! After seeing demos of SLAM at home brew robotics society meetings, along with people using Kinects […]