Using the U-Boot Extension Board Manager – BeagleBone Boards Example

Using the U-Boot Extension Board Manager – BeagleBone Boards Example

This article follows two earlier blog posts about Device Tree overlays: Using Device Tree Overlays, example on BeagleBone boards Device Tree: Supporting Similar Boards – The BeagleBone Example Introduction As explained in the first two blog posts, the BeagleBone boards are supported by a wide number of extension boards, called capes. When such a cape … Continued

Device Tree: Supporting Similar Boards – The BeagleBone Example

Device Tree: Supporting Similar Boards – The BeagleBone Example

Most of the BeagleBone boards from BeagleBoard.org share the same form factor, have the same headers and therefore can accept the same extension boards, also known as capes in the BeagleBoard world. Of course, a careful PCB design was necessary to make this possible. This must have been relatively easy with the early models (BeagleBone … Continued

Using Device Tree Overlays, example on BeagleBone Cape add-on boards

Using Device Tree Overlays, example on BeagleBone Cape add-on boards

The concept of Device Tree overlays The Device Tree language is a way to describe hardware that is present in a system and cannot be automatically detected. That’s the case of devices directly implemented on a System on a Chip, such as serial ports, Ethernet or Nand flash controllers. That’s also the case of devices … Continued

Improving usage of device trees

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 … Continued

BeagleBone® Black Helps Team Bring in a Win for Sustainability

The TU Delft Solar Boat Team used the BeagleBone® Black in their most ambitious design and won in the world championships.

BeagleBone® Black Helps Team Bring in a Win for Sustainability

The TU Delft Solar Boat Team used the BeagleBone® Black in their most ambitious design and won in the world championships.

Online training update

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 … Continued

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!

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!

BeagleBoard.org® Community Kicks off GSoC 2019 with Four Projects

This summer, four student projects in the Google Summer of Code 2019 (GSoC) will be mentored by BeagleBoard.org®. GSoC, sponsored by Google, is a global program in it’s fourteenth year, focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development during a 3 month programming project. After going through a detailed and thorough application … Continued

BeagleBone® AI Makes a Sneak Preview

BeagleBone® AI Makes a Sneak Preview

A new BeagleBone® made a sneak preview at Embedded World in Germany. Filling the gap between small single board computers (SBCs) and large powerful industrial computers, BeagleBone® AI  (https://staging.digitalblender.co/ai) brings the open source Linux approach to Artificial Intelligence applications development.  Based on the Texas Instruments AM57x family, the BeagleBone® AI gives full access to the … Continued

Still Seats Available in the PocketBeagle® Workshop Today Embedded World

Still Seats Available in the PocketBeagle® Workshop Today Embedded World

A few seats are still available for a no-additional-cost Hands-On Coding Workshop with BeagleBoard.org® PocketBeagle® , TODAY – February 27, 2019 from 2:30-5:30pm.  Room: Krakau Register at the conference desk in NCC Ost Join our co-founder, Jason Kridner.  This getting started workshop with PocketBeagle® will cover the basics of coding with open-source Linux based software using online IDE … Continued