Laser PCBs with LDGraphy

Inderpreet Singh writes on the Hackaday blog about Henner Zeller’s latest project: Laser PCBs with LDGraphy There are many, many ways to get a PCB design onto a board for etching. Even with practice however, the quality of the result varies with the process and equipment used. With QFN parts becoming the norm, the days of […]

BeagleBone Blue challenge with FLIR Lepton

​FLIR has launched a design challenge for the FLIR Lepton 3 thermal camera and BeagleBone Blue.  ​Submit your project idea for the FLIR challenge by July 21st.  ​​The top 5 ideas will receive a BeagleBone Blue and FLIR Lepton 3: FLIR BeagleBone Blue challenge​ If you’re into robotics then this challenge is for you! The FLIR Lepton […]

Music-Loving BeagleBone Blue

From Inderpreet Singh on Hackaday: Music-Loving BeagleBone Robotic control can get very complicated when multiple actuators need to work in coordination with each other. A simple robotic arm will require each joint to be controlled in sequence to attain a particular position. The BeagleBone Blue comes armed with motor drivers, sensor inputs, and wireless and is built […]

Introduction videos for Google Summer of Code 2017

Watch the introduction videos from our Google Summer of Code 2017 students: BeagleWire software support by Patryk Mężydło BeagleBone AVB Stack by indu mathi BeagleLibs BeagleBoot by Ravi Kumar Prasad Sonic Anemometer by NAVEEN SAINI Beaglebone PRU DMA by Maciej Sobkowski

PocketBone designed in KiCad

The PocketBone is an Open Source Hardware design by Michael Welling in KiCad for the Octavo OSD3358 SiP (System-in-Package).  Brian Benchoff wrote about it recently on Hackaday: Hackaday: “An Even Smaller BeagleBone” The BeagleBone famously fits in an Altoids tin. Even though we now have BeagleBone Blacks, Blues, and Greens, the form factor for this curiously strong Linux […]

BeagleMAV 3D-printed Hexacopter

From the DroneLab at the University of California in San Diego: BeagleMAV BeagleMAV is a 3D-printed hexacopter that derives its extremely low weight of 500 grams (1.1 pounds) from its unique monocoque structure that was designed iteratively with modal finite element analysis. The monocoque frame design emphasizes simplicity of assembly and safety of indoor flight. With […]

True Color 3D Printing with BeagleBone and MachineKit

We were very excited to see that the full color Arcus 3D printer by Daren Schwenke at Midwest RepRap Fest is powered by MachineKit on a BeagleBone Black.  Brian Benchoff of Hackaday wrote article about Arcus3D: MRRF 17: True Color 3D Printing 3D printing has evolved to a point where dual extrusion isn’t really that special […]

Midwest RepRap Fest this weekend

We look forward to seeing everyone at the Midwest RepRap Fest this weekend in Goshen, Indiana: The 5th annual Midwest RepRap Festival is taking place March 24-26th 2017 in the same location as last year.  Nestled in the middle of nowhere Indiana, you’ll find the largest gathering of 3D printers and 3D printing enthusiasts anywhere […]

New BeagleBone Debian images published

Jason Kridner writes: Debian 8.7 (Jessie) 2017-03-19 images are now published on https://www.beagleboard.org/latest-images, but this version isn’t likely to live more than a few weeks before we push yet another. The big update here is eliminating the need to install drivers for any of Windows, Mac or Linux host users when working over USB networking. […]

2017-03-19 BeagleBone Debian images published

Debian 8.7 (Jessie) 2017-03-19 images are now published on https://www.beagleboard.org/latest-images, but this version isn’t likely to live more than a few weeks before we push yet another. The big update here is eliminating the need to install drivers for any of Windows, Mac or Linux host users when working over USB networking. This was accomplished by updating the […]