By Natalie Nelms Its amazing what you can create when you pair a few spare parts lying around and an inventive imagination. In this instance, these ingredients gave birth to BeagleBot a small test robot for localization algorithms! After seeing demos of SLAM at home brew robotics society meetings, along with people using Kinects […]
By Natalie Nelms Oh, the places youll go when using three BeagleBone Blacks! Maker and engineering expert Trefor Delve explored this idea by developing a parallel simulation proof of concept that ran on three Sitara-processor-powered BeagleBone Blacks in order to implement a MIL-STD-1553 bus system and interface to real and virtual hardware. There is always […]
Drew Fustini on panel called “Can Open Hardware Be A Viable Business Model?” at KC Open Hardware Group Summit tomorrow!
By Natalie Nelms Picture this: Youre lying in bed, exhausted from a long day of work; your eyelids are heavy, but youre devoted to finishing the last page of your favorite novel. You conclude the last page, set the book down on your nightstand, get in the perfect sleeping position and then regrettably realize that […]
Pantelis Antoniou originated device tree overlay support for the purpose of enabling dynamic hardware configuration under Linux on devices like BeagleBone that use device tree for hardware configuration. Device tree was introduced to Linux for the purpose of putting the description of hardware into data structures, rather than building it up programmatically, greatly reducing the […]
By Natalie Nelms You dont have to be a child to play with remote-controlled cars. The BeagleROV is an exciting toy that would bring any adult Maker back to the good ole days except this robot packs a bit more punch than the classic Nascar minis. Powered by the TI Sitara AM335x processor-based BeagleBone […]