PocketBone designed in KiCad

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The PocketBone is an Open Source Hardware design by Michael Welling in KiCad for the Octavo OSD3358 SiP (System-in-Package).  Brian Benchoff wrote about it recently on Hackaday: Hackaday: “An Even Smaller BeagleBone” The BeagleBone famously fits in an Altoids tin. Even though we now have BeagleBone Blacks, Blues, and Greens, the form factor for this curiously strong Linux […]

BeagleMAV 3D-printed Hexacopter

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From the DroneLab at the University of California in San Diego: BeagleMAV BeagleMAV is a 3D-printed hexacopter that derives its extremely low weight of 500 grams (1.1 pounds) from its unique monocoque structure that was designed iteratively with modal finite element analysis. The monocoque frame design emphasizes simplicity of assembly and safety of indoor flight. With […]

True Color 3D Printing with BeagleBone and MachineKit

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We were very excited to see that the full color Arcus 3D printer by Daren Schwenke at Midwest RepRap Fest is powered by MachineKit on a BeagleBone Black.  Brian Benchoff of Hackaday wrote article about Arcus3D: MRRF 17: True Color 3D Printing 3D printing has evolved to a point where dual extrusion isn’t really that special […]

Midwest RepRap Fest this weekend

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We look forward to seeing everyone at the Midwest RepRap Fest this weekend in Goshen, Indiana: The 5th annual Midwest RepRap Festival is taking place March 24-26th 2017 in the same location as last year.  Nestled in the middle of nowhere Indiana, you’ll find the largest gathering of 3D printers and 3D printing enthusiasts anywhere […]

New BeagleBone Debian images published

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Jason Kridner writes: Debian 8.7 (Jessie) 2017-03-19 images are now published on https://www.beagleboard.org/latest-images, but this version isn’t likely to live more than a few weeks before we push yet another. The big update here is eliminating the need to install drivers for any of Windows, Mac or Linux host users when working over USB networking. […]

2017-03-19 BeagleBone Debian images published

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Debian 8.7 (Jessie) 2017-03-19 images are now published on https://www.beagleboard.org/latest-images, but this version isn’t likely to live more than a few weeks before we push yet another. The big update here is eliminating the need to install drivers for any of Windows, Mac or Linux host users when working over USB networking. This was accomplished by updating the […]

Apply for Google Summer of Code

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Students can now apply to work with the BeagleBoard.org Foundation for Google Summer of Code: BeagleBoard.org Foundation Refer to our previous post for more GSoC information

BeagleBone Blue at Embedded World (part 2)

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BeagleBone Blue video featuring Jason Kridner that was played in our booth at Embedded World: All About Circuits writes about the Blue: BeagleBone Blue for Robotics Applications The BeagleBone Blue is now available. You can learn more about this open source robotics computer and its BeagleBone predecessors here. Video by Shabaz Yousaf of BeagleBone Blue […]

BeagleBone Blue at Embedded World

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ARMDevices.net video of the new BeagleBone Blue with Jason Kridner in our BeagleBoard.org Foundation booth at Embedded World: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSPO-4Llk7g] Find out more about the new BeagleBone Blue: Meet BeagleBone® Blue. Robots. Fast.

Meet BeagleBone Blue

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Meet BeagleBone® Blue. Robots. Fast. BeagleBone® Blue is the affordable and complete robotics controller built around the popular BeagleBone® open hardware computer. Linux-enabled, Blue is community-supported and fully open-source.  High-performance, flexible networking capabilities are coupled with a real-time capable Linux system and a compelling set of peripherals for building mobile robots quickly and affordably.  By […]