Last week was a very busy one for Beagle Boarders. We had hundreds of people sign up for the 4 days of Beagle Board training at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston. Class attendance for several sessions were at capacity and many of the classes were hands-on, including hands-on classes on 3D user interface creation […]

Lot’s of activity going on around Beagle, but I’ve been lax on generating blog posts. In addition to the activity going on in preparation for ESC Boston, such as getting Sugar running, giving free trainings in India, and getting a new intern to watch the IRC logs, we also have our very own Roger Monk […]

Lugradio live 2008 Originally uploaded by koenkooi The BeagleBoard.org community last weekend (July 19/20) showcased the latest beagle developments and capabilities at the LugRadio Live 08 Event in the UK. Koen Kooi (Open Embedded) and Måns Rullgård (FFmpeg) teamed up to deliver some stunning NEON accelerated High Definition video demonstrations and the latest ARM Cortex-A8 […]

Beagle will also be making an afternoon appearance at BarCampHouston3.

The Beagle Board will making a number of appearances over the next few weeks. Our very own Khasim Syed Mohammed will be at OSScamp July 19th in Bengaluru, India. In the UK, Koen Kooi and Måns Rullgård are looking to show off FFmpeg and Ångström at LugRadio Live on July 19-20. A BeagleBoard fan group […]

And the winners are… Sebastian Reschke Harald Krippel Ramiro Polla Kate Alhola Kees Jongenburger Eugen Dischke Davor Ocelic Robert Bohme Holger Wirtz Jan Luebbe Robert Schuster Florian Boor Each of the winners has now been contacted and we’re in the process of shipping the boards. My apologies for each of you who applied and were […]

It is the little things that make me happy sometimes, like Koen adding support for the Linux LED driver. Several triggers are possible, such as accessing the NAND, MMC/SD, or just a regular heartbeat, as Koen has demonstrated. To list off the possible triggers for the LED driver: The above shows the MMC/SD access trigger […]

Texas Instruments is hosting the BeagleBoard.org booth at LinuxTag 2008 on May 28-31. You will see Beagle board live demos and discuss open source topics at the booth – Hall 7.2a Stand 122. On Friday, May 30th, there is a two hour workshop about the open source project in workshop room 2 at noon. More […]

Continuing from last LUGRadio Live USA 2008 report, the recorded video, “The DSP is Open”, is now online and the links are shared on the LUGRadio Live forums. I’m caught speaking about DSP, Open Source + TI devices, and the Beagle Board. The slides are on-line here, as they are a bit difficult to read […]

Some may think of the BeagleBoard as just another embedded eval board, but its capabilities lie much closer to those of a computer. And as a computer, Beagle needs an OS. Though we are already running Linux, and it’s fine, there’s still something missing. Beagle needs a distro. On your PC you might use Fedora, […]