BlueMix Internet of Things Workshop with Texas Instruments BeagleBone and SensorTag

Why not start to share some of these cool things on WordPress on my own WordPress blog? I’ve been playing with Node-RED and it is pretty darn cool!

Have no fear; BeagleBone Black Rev C is here!

Easier to use, double the memory, Debian based and ready to go from the box   WHAT:           The community asked and we delivered! With BeagleBone Black Rev C, BeagleBoard.org has made the move to the Debian GNU/Linux™ distribution pulling directly from the upstream Debian repositories. This means users will have an environment more familiar […]

Arduino announces Tre beta developer program

Arduino Tre is the next-generation Arduino developed in partnership with BeagleBoard.org featuring Arduino ease-of-use and the high-performance, low-power Linux capabilities of BeagleBone. Read their announcement here.

Turn Up The Volume On Your BeagleBone Black

The SoundsCape adds a codec to the McASP bus for Line In, Line Out, and Headset (microphone in + headphone out). It also adds an HCI Bluetooth 4.0 Module for Bluetooth Audio (A2DP), BT Hands free (HFP), or SPP, with all Bluetooth profiles are supported by the cape. (Image courtesy of Simple Media Networks) We […]

Google Summer of Code 2014 projects

BeagleBoard.org Google Summer of Code 2014 projects Yesterday, Google announced the project proposals accepted for this year’s Summer of Code! 7 of those projects are being mentored by BeagleBoard.org. See the full list of approved projects at https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2014 BeagleLogic – Kumar Abhishek will be working on a logic analzer utilizing the BeagleBone PRUs as a […]

Dude, where’s my BeagleBone Black?

I hear that question a LOT. No, we weren’t sleeping, but sometimes it takes a minute for a plan to come together. And don’t you love it when a plan comes together? Your BeagleBone Black is on the way and below are the whys and hows. Buying a BeagleBone Black back around October last year […]

BeagleBone Black Project Spotlight: Shield I/O

Some unlikely combinations just seem to work: Oreos and peanut butter, Dwight Schrute and Michael Scott and now Arduino and BeagleBone Black! With the new Shield I/O, you can now use (almost) any Arduino shield with a BeagleBone Black. The Shield I/O, created by Andreas Behrend, adapts Arduino shields to be BeagleBone Black compatible, it […]

Calling all BeagleBoard.org GSoC Mentors

We are getting great interest from students this year for Google Summer of Code, but we could use a bit of help from our community getting a great feedback on their proposals. I encourage you to engage with them on #beagle-gsoc and the beagleboard-gsoc mailing list even if you don’t plan to be a mentor, […]

Debian Beta images have been released

As posted earlier today on the BeagleBoard.org mailing list, the latest BeagleBone Debian beta images are now posted for broader testing at:http://beagleboard.org/latest-images/ If you’ve upgraded the firmware on your BeagleBone or BeagleBone Black in the past, the experience will be quite similar, but you might find the eMMC flashing times a bit faster (~15 minutes […]

BeagleBoard.org Mentoring Google Summer of Code

BeagleBoard.org has once again been selected as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code! This means it is time for students and potential mentors to check out the information on the program home page to find out about the program in general and discover the other organizations participating in mentorship this year. Once familiar […]