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 […]

Apply for Google Summer of Code

Students can now apply to work with the BeagleBoard.org Foundation for Google Summer of Code: BeagleBoard.org Foundation Refer to our previous post for more GSoC information

BeagleBone Blue at Embedded World (part 2)

BeagleBone Blue video featuring Jason Kridner that was played in our booth at Embedded World: All About Circuits writes about the Blue: BeagleBone Blue for Robotics Applications The BeagleBone Blue is now available. You can learn more about this open source robotics computer and its BeagleBone predecessors here. Video by Shabaz Yousaf of BeagleBone Blue […]

BeagleBone Blue at Embedded World

ARMDevices.net video of the new BeagleBone Blue with Jason Kridner in our BeagleBoard.org Foundation booth at Embedded World: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSPO-4Llk7g] Find out more about the new BeagleBone Blue: Meet BeagleBone® Blue. Robots. Fast.

Meet BeagleBone Blue

Meet BeagleBone® Blue. Robots. Fast. BeagleBone® Blue is the affordable and complete robotics controller built around the popular BeagleBone® open hardware computer. Linux-enabled, Blue is community-supported and fully open-source.  High-performance, flexible networking capabilities are coupled with a real-time capable Linux system and a compelling set of peripherals for building mobile robots quickly and affordably.  By […]

Using the roboRIO with the BeagleBone

Alek Mabry made this tutorial for using the BeagleBone with the roboRIO for FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC): Using the roboRIO with the BeagleBone Supplies Connecting the roboRIO to the BeagleBone Connecting to your BeagleBone UDP on the roboRIO (Java) UDP on the BeagleBone (Python) Be sure to also check out Alek’s previous robotics project: Building a […]

Google Summer of Code 2017

We’re excited to announce that BeagleBoard.org has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2017: Interested students are encouraged to review our 2017 GSoC ideas and begin interacting with our GSoC administrators and mentors on our GSoC mailing list and beagle-gsoc chat.  Students can apply starting on March 20th. We are also looking for additional mentors. […]

FPGA cape for BeagleBone Black

Jim Kleiner created a minimal FPGA cape for the BeagleBone Black: BBB LX9 FPGA Board Jim describes his design decisions: I decided to try a minimalist hand solderable FPGA board.  The LX9 is the largest part available in a TQG-144, beyond that its BGAs One of the key points is that the SPI interface is on BBB […]

BuddyBot: First robot programmed in Swift

Jon Hoffman created a Swift library for interacting with the GPIO, PWM and Analog pins on the BeagleBone Black: Jon used SwiftyBones to develop BuddyBot, the first robot programmed in the Swift: Learn more about Swift in in Jon’s book: Mastering Swift 3 – Linux Learn to build fast and robust applications on the Linux Platform with Swift