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BeagleBone Black project spotlight: Implementing MIL-STD-1553 with three Beagles

By Natalie Nelms Oh, the places you’ll go when using three BeagleBone Blacks! Maker and engineering expert Trefor Delve explored this idea by developing a parallel simulation proof of concept that ran on three Sitara-processor-powered BeagleBone Blacks in order to implement a MIL-STD-1553 bus system and interface to real and virtual hardware. There is always […]

PSA: Getting to World Maker Faire

2014 KC Open Hardware Summit Agenda

Drew Fustini on panel called “Can Open Hardware Be A Viable Business Model?” at KC Open Hardware Group Summit tomorrow!

BeagleBoard-xM project spotlight: Sleep Tight

By Natalie Nelms Picture this: You’re lying in bed, exhausted from a long day of work; your eyelids are heavy, but you’re devoted to finishing the last page of your favorite novel. You conclude the last page, set the book down on your nightstand, get in the perfect sleeping position and then regrettably realize that […]

Device Tree Overlay Support Lands Upstream

Pantelis Antoniou originated device tree overlay support for the purpose of enabling dynamic hardware configuration under Linux on devices like BeagleBone that use device tree for hardware configuration. Device tree was introduced to Linux for the purpose of putting the description of hardware into data structures, rather than building it up programmatically, greatly reducing the […]

BeagleBone Black project spotlight: BeagleROV

By Natalie Nelms You don’t have to be a child to play with remote-controlled cars. The BeagleROV is an exciting toy that would bring any adult Maker back to the good ole’ days – except this robot packs a bit more punch than the classic Nascar minis. Powered by the TI Sitara AM335x processor-based BeagleBone […]

BeagleBone Black project spotlight: Squink

By Natalie Nelms Standing in line for coffee, a commercial break, boiling water – all things that only take a matter of minutes. What if building circuit boards were that easy and time efficient? At New York startup company BotFactory, devices print and assemble electronic circuit boards from your desktop in a matter of minutes. […]

The Squink—a personal electronics factory?

Personal electronics factory built on #BeagleBoneBlack — support the Kickstarter campaign now!

BeagleBone Black project spotlight: Pocket NC P5

By Natalie Nelms Computer numerical control (CNC) milling machines have been around for decades. Most are industrial-sized, and are used create everything from the shaped trim on a house to the mechanical components of a space shuttle. Over the last decade, a large do-it-yourself community has emerged giving a new market to CNC milling machines […]