It has been a big week for BeagleBoard.org. The next generation BeagleBone has been teased with a page open for registering interest. Matt Richardson created a teaser video and I showed off the board at ELC connected to an Motorola Lapdock to act as a monitor, keyboard, mouse and power supply. Victor Meyerson was also letting people know about the next-generation BeagleBone and provided BeagleWall, Motorola Lapdock and other demonstrations at SCaLE 11x where he was selected as the “Most passionate .org booth!“
Here’s Matt’s video about the upcoming BeagleBone:
Here are some pictures that Victor took at SCaLE showing the BeagleBoard.org booth with BeagleWall and Motorola Lapdock demos. The second picture shows a USB touchscreen connected to a BeagleBone using upstream kernel drivers for both the display (displaylink) and touch (e2i) portions as well as Xorg drivers provided by xf86-video-fbdev. Thanks again Victor (calculus on #beagle)!
Now is a great time for BeagleBoard.org and a great time to get involved. I am looking for more contributors to:
- the mainline kernel effort with patches being staged at http://github.com/beagleboard/kernel,
- support for the mainline kernel for doing physical computing in JavaScript at http://github.com/jadonk/bonescript,
- improvements to the distro used to make the boards useful out-of-the-box at http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom and
- support in any of Linux distribution or other operating systems.
Join us at http://beagleboard.org/discuss and get involved today! I’ll be posting requests for contributions to our Google Summer of Code ideas page soon.
Update: I corrected the blog post to say “most passionate” not “favorite” and added the link provided by Russ Dill.