Educator Highlight: Derek Molloy, Teaching with PocketBeagle® and More in New Book

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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 […]

Light Up Your Holidays with PocketBeagle®

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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 […]

Poursteady: From BeagleBone® Maker Project to Global Coffee Equipment Company

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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 […]

Educator Highlight: Derek Molloy, Embedded Linux YouTube Rock-Star and Author

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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 […]

Empowering Innovative Education & Celebrating Community (Maker Faire NYC)

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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 […]

Fresh Debian 9.5 images

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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 […]

Using BeagleBone Blue to build an Autopilot Robot (part 1) – Circuit Cellar article

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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 […]

Educator Highlight: Steven F. Barrett, Author, Embedded Systems Educator and Beagle Lover

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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 […]

GSoC 2018 Brings Students and BeagleBoard.org® Mentors Together

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This summer, three students successfully completed  Google Summer of Code 2018 (GSoC) projects mentored by BeagleBoard.org®. GSoC, sponsored by Google, is a global program in it’s thirteenth year, focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development during a 3 month programming project. GSoC provides a way for BeagleBoard.org® to identify and bring in […]

Great Teaching Ideas Can Recieve a Lab of BeagleBoard.org® PocketBeagle® Boards

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BeagleBoard.org® Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is announcing a new program as part of our continued commitment to education in the use of open-source software and hardware. Educators in schools can apply for the opportunity to receive up to 30 PocketBeagle® boards from the BeagleBoard.org® Foundation. The donation of the boards will further project development in the classroom or makerspace. To participate in […]