Open Hardware Summit 2016

Slides from Jason Kridner’s talk at Open Hardware Summit 2016 last Friday in Portland: OHS2016_JasonKridner.pdf [PDF] Recorded video stream of Open Hardware Summit:

BeagleBone Black Wireless winners from Maker Faire NY giveaway

Congratulations to the winners of the BeagleBone Black Wireless Maker Faire New York Giveaway! Boards are entering production now and should ship in November. Winners should expect to be contacted separately for their shipping address. Carsten Sewing Sam Brenner David Ryskalczyk Alice Lai Jenny Lin Laura Schroeder William Crean Dean Notarnicola Dave Crawford Jim Carlson […]

Meet BeagleBone Black Wireless, the newest board in the BeagleBone family

Replacing the 10/100 Ethernet port with onboard 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz WiFi and Bluetooth, the popular open source BeagleBone™ Black computer now comes with built-in wireless networking capability.  Based on the extremely successful open-source BeagleBone™ Black hardware design, BeagleBone™ Black Wireless is a high-expansion, maker-focused, community-supported open hardware computer created by the BeagleBoard.org Foundation. Leveraging a […]

Hackaday: Wireless BeagleBones On A Chip

New Part Day: Wireless BeagleBones On A Chip The BeagleBone is a very popular single board computer, best applied to real-time applications where you need to blink LEDs really, really fast. Over the years, the BeagleBone has been used for stand-alone CNC controllers, the brains behind very large LED installations, and on rare occasions has […]

Meet BeagleBone Black Wireless

Meet BeagleBone™ Black Wireless, the newest board in the BeagleBone™ family Replacing the 10/100 Ethernet port with onboard 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz WiFi and Bluetooth, the popular open source BeagleBone™ Black computer now comes with built-in wireless networking capability. Based on the extremely successful open-source BeagleBone™ Black hardware design, BeagleBone™ Black Wireless is a high-expansion, maker-focused, community-supported open […]

Murgen: Open Source ultrasound imaging

kelu124 has created an ultrasound imaging project on hackaday.io that uses the BeagleBone: Murgen: open source ultrasound imaging This project, Murgen, has a specific target of providing a technological kit to allow scientists, academics, hackers, makers or OSHW fans to hack their way to ultrasound imaging – below 500$ – at home, with no specific equipment […]

Hackerboat

BeagleBone Black on an around-the-world voyage…

Hackerboat

Pierce Nichols and the Hackerbot Labs team are building an autonomous boat capable of doing sonar surveys of dive sites: Hackerboat An autonomous boat of unusual size Pierce recently wrote about the latest news from the project: Hackerboat Progress Since the last update, we’ve gotten in the water one more time (in late July) and […]

[Ken Shirriff] Demystifies BeagleBone I/O — Hackaday

If you have ever spent a while delving into the bare metal of talking to the I/O pins on a contemporary microprocessor or microcontroller you will know that it is not always an exercise for the faint-hearted. A host of different functions can be multiplexed behind a physical pin, and once you are looking at… via […]

BeagleBone I/O pins: inside the software stack that makes them work

Ken Shirrif has written a great blog post with the goal of making the the internal operation of the Beaglebone less mysterious: BeagleBone I/O pins: inside the software stack that makes them work The BeagleBone’s GPIO pins can be easily controlled through the file system, but a lot goes on behind the scenes, making it […]