Empowering Innovative Education & Celebrating Community (Maker Faire NYC)

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 […]

Join BeagleBoard.org® at World Maker Faire in New York, Sept 21-23

BeagleBoard.org® is a sponsor of World Maker Faire® 2018 in the New York Hall of Science. We will be hosting talks and demos. Stay tuned to this page as the schedule develops for updated times and locations: Friday, Sept 21, 2018 10:00am – 4:00pm : Education Forum “Making the Future of Work: Make Education Forum” […]

Meet BeagleBoard.org this weekend at World Maker Faire

BeagleBoard.org is a sponsor of World Maker Faire 2017 this weekend in New York: We will have a demos in our BeagleBoard.org booth over the weekend along with these two talks: Addressing the question what’s new at BeagleBoard.org?  by Jason Kridner Saturday, September 23, 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Zone 3 in MAKE: Electronic BeagleBoard.org […]

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 […]

Have no fear; BeagleBone Black Rev C is here!

Easier to use, double the memory, Debian based and ready to go from the box   WHAT:           The community asked and we delivered! With BeagleBone Black Rev C, BeagleBoard.org has made the move to the Debian GNU/Linux™ distribution pulling directly from the upstream Debian repositories. This means users will have an environment more familiar […]

BeagleBone Black project spotlight: Orbital Rendersphere

By Tara Stratton If you went to Maker Faire New York this year, you could not have missed the Orbital Rendersphere. This “Big Giant Spinning Limb Slicer,” as the Hoboken MakerBar team affectionately calls it, displays images and videos on a four-foot diameter spherical surface using persistence of vision (POV) spinning at 450 RPM. It […]

BeagleBone Black project spotlight: GrannyCam

By Tara Stratton The holidays are around the corner, and with them come the fun and excitement of big family gatherings. However, a lot of families are spread across the country and not able to get together for the holidays. That’s why Charles Hamilton developed GrannyCam, a safe, durable videophone that his kids can use […]

Arduino TRE demonstrated at Maker Faire Rome

#ArduinoTre enables Web-based programming of all your sensors http://bit.ly/18FvhfC Having fun showing off #ArduinoTRE at #MakerFaireRome at @arduino booth http://t.co/nOdmCxmVJC pic.twitter.com/cZTsWa5Iyd — Jason Kridner (@Jadon) October 5, 2013

Quick list of BeagleBone projects I saw at World Maker Faire in New York

There wasn’t enough time to really discover all of the BeagleBone Black projects at World Maker Faire in New York. I did post some quick pictures on Google+, but I barely had time to breathe at the Faire! OpenROV – Open hardware underwater robot Hoboken MakerBar Orbital Rendersphere – Spinning persistence of vision globe GrannyCam – […]