Improving usage of device trees

Using device trees is one of the most complicated and important, and sometimes risky, elements of using a Beagle to make use of add-on hardware. With the addition of the AM5729-based BeagleBone AI to the family of boards sporting BeagleBone headers, the complications have increased, requiring additional considerations with dependencies on different processor pins connected […]

Call for topics for open-source embedded systems education projects

It’s that time again, time to start gathering project ideas and possible mentors for Google Summer of Code. This year, you can be a student even if you aren’t enrolled in school! That’s got me thinking about the key areas we need to help advance education around open source embedded systems. One of the early […]

Online training update

As mentioned in my New Year’s resolution, I’m going to launch some online training for embedded Linux development. Yes, this training will happen. Interest continues to build. At this point, I’m delaying until the first of our triannual image releases comes out next month to align with the latest software release. I’m also fixing an […]

BeagleBoard.org update for the Open Hardware Summit 2020 @ohsummit #OpenCovid19Initiative

Open hardware community advances environmental testing for COVID-19 to help clean up schools and libraries

Open hardware community advances environmental testing for COVID-19 to help clean up schools and libraries

New BeagleBoard Debian image release cycle

Robert Nelson, board member and Debian image owner, recently announced a new 3-times-a-year release cycle for the BeagleBoard.org Debian images used pre-flashed onto boards and available via the latest-images page on the BeagleBoard.org website. These are the recommended default images for new users, though many other distributions and operating systems are commonly used. Hi Everyone, […]

BeagleBoard.org GSoC is heating up

Just a few days left for students to submit proposals to the official @gsoc site. Help guide the students by joining the forum (bbb.io/gsocml) and live chat (bbb.io/gsocchat) now!

Just a few days left for students to submit proposals to the official @gsoc site. Help guide the students by joining the forum (bbb.io/gsocml) and live chat (bbb.io/gsocchat) now!

Support BeagleBoard Foundation now on Amazon Smile

Grab the badge off of bbb.io/smile to share elsewhere. Amazon gives 0.5% to charities, in this case BeagleBoard.org Foundation, when you use smile.amazon.com when you shop. Make sure you include ‘smile’ in the URL when shopping at Amazon and consider selecting BeagleBoard.org Foundation as your charity.

Worlds best cheeseburger is made by BeagleBone

Read the article about how they did it on Makezine: https://makezine.com/2020/01/08/how-two-california-kids-overcame-doubters-to-automate-the-freshest-burger-ever-served/

Mentoring Organization for GSoC 2020!

We couldn’t be more proud to be back for our 9th year as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. This is an amazing program offering amazing opportunities for both mentors and students. Now’s the time to get involved. Looking to see some specific improvements to open source for embedded computing, robotics, machine learning […]

Jason’s New Year’s Resolutions

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As you might know, the BeagleBoard.org Foundation is dedicated to education in and collaboration around the design and use of open-source software and hardware in embedded computing. For me, this mission really is world changing important. Every aspect of our lives is impacted by embedded computing technology constantly, yet most people are barely literate in […]