I met 9 year old Charlie Jaffe and his dad, Doug at MakerFaire New York in September 2018 at our BeagleBoard.org® educational booth in the MakerShed. Charlie is a passionate young developer who enjoyed our demos at the booth using Beagleboard.org® PocketBeagle® and immediately wanted to build some projects of his own. After taking one […]
BeagleBoard.org® is proud to announce two of our board members have been elected as OSHWA board members! Both Jason Kridner and Drew Fustini will be joining the 2018-2020 board. The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) is a non-profit organization that has the objective to “foster technological knowledge and encourage research that is accessible, collaborative and […]
Derek Molloy, announces the inclusion of PocketBeagle® and BeagleBone® Black Wireless into the second edition of the popular book, Exploring BeagleBone®: Tools and Techniques for Building with Embedded Linux 2nd Edition. He also talks to us about introducing new development platforms into the classroom. (Part 2 of 2 Parts) Read Part 1 here. We are excited to see […]
It’s fun and easy to light up your holiday season with Beagleboard.org® PocketBeagle® It’s tiny size and great 1GHz performance, makes PocketBeagle® the ideal controller for your holiday displays. In addition to the main 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU, the AM3358 SOC inside PocketBeagle® has a couple of “Aces up it’s sleeve” called PRUs. The […]
Little did Stephan von Muehlen, CEO of Poursteady, know five years ago that helping out two engineering friends at a World MakerFaire demo would be the start of a successful, global, commercial coffee equipment company. Poursteady, is a unique IoT robotic pour-over coffee machine combining precision motion-control with speed and reliability. After serving over 800 […]
We caught up with Derek Molloy, Author and Sr Lecturer in the School of Electronic Engineering at Dublin City College to chat about his use of BeagleBoard in the classroom and what inspired him to write a textbook and a series of very popular YouTube videos using them. (Part 1 of 2 Parts) What was […]
We love New York! The BeagleBoard.org® community gathered at World Maker Faire® 2018 sharing our love of educating with open-source software and hardware in embedded computing. Hundreds of visitors stopped by our booth in the Maker Shed sharing their project ideas with us. Developers of all ages and skills came away with a T-Shirt with […]
What’s new? * Fixes for zero-install drivers on Windows 10 * Updated Windows driver signatures (in case the zero-install drivers don’t load) * Updated Chromium (fixes) * Updated node-red (fixes, blockly) * Updated bone101 (fixes) * Updated BoneScript (fixes and deprecation of non-node-style callbacks) * Updated librobotcontrol (fixes) * Updated kernel (4.14.71-ti-r80) * Updated bootloader […]
Hi folks! My name is Pedro Bertoleti and I’m a software engineer from Brazil. The October issue of Circuit Cellar’s magazine came out yesterday (9/18/2018), and I’ve written one of the articles of this issue (Title: “Building an Autopilot Robot (part 1)”, page 16). This article shows the groundwork for reliable speed estimation based in […]
Steven F. Barrett, professor of ECE and Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the University of Wyoming has been writing educational journal articles and textbooks for use in microcontroller and embedded systems courses for over 13 years. A prolific and inspired writer, Dr Barrett has written 12 books using many different microcontroller architectures including AVR, HC12/S12, and […]