Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELC-E) 2012 wrapped up last week in Barcelona. By far, the most popular embedded platform of choice for demonstrations was BeagleBone. Here are four examples that include links to the slides taken from the eLinux wiki ELC-E presentation page. Videos of the presentations should be available from Free Electrons soon. Matt […]
What is up with Google? We have hundreds of messages waiting moderation on the BeagleBoard Google Group, but the tool no longer enables message moderation—and absolutely no communications from Google. Have they simply bitten off more than they can chew? Are they trying to take too much control? Either way, I’m shopping for a new […]
This week, I went on the Amp Hour with Chris, Dave and Jeff. We spoke about a lot of things BeagleBoard related, including the upcoming next revision of the BeagleBoard. Also, I wanted to remind everyone that there will be new hands-on training at ESC Boston this month and full-conference attendees will get a free […]
Three years ago this week, Digi-Key announced the BeagleBoard. Since then, BeagleBoard-xM was launched and numerous other distributors have also signed up to deliver the BeagleBoard and BeagleBoard-xM all around the world. Linux is turning 20 years old this year and Linus has released version 3.0. You can try 3.0 out on the BeagleBoard or […]
Today we interview Greg Kroah-Hartman and your hosts are Jason Kridner and Jeffery Osier-Mixon. Gerald will be back in two weeks. To provide questions or suggestions: Call +1-713-234-0535 or visit the BeagleCast suggestions form Links to the recordings BeagleCast-20110325.mp3 BeagleCast-20110325.ogg Links to show topics Some in stock @ Digi-Key this week! A 300ms BeagleBoard boot? […]
I was at Indiana Linuxfest this weekend. A couple of BeagleBoard-xMs were raffled off in support of the conference and it seemed a lot of people were interested. I gave a brief talk about the BeagleBoard project, Mark Yoder from Rose-Hulman and his students gave hands-on training to those interested in the Hackerspace Village and […]
The theme of today’s show is “Super Jumbo” and your hosts are Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon. To provide questions or suggestions: Call +1-713-234-0535 or visit the BeagleCast suggestions form Links to the recordings BeagleCast-20110325.mp3 BeagleCast-20110325.ogg Headline news Windows Compact 7 Two new Distributors in China — ChipSee — CATCAN From the RSS […]
Today’s hosts are Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon. Below are the show note links. Links to the recordings BeagleCast-20110314.mp3 BeagleCast-20110314.ogg To provide questions or suggestions: Call +1-713-234-0535 or visit the BeagleCast suggestions form From the RSS feed Running a BeagleBoard off of Batteries BeagleBoard cases with a MakerBot on Thingiverse New SGX Graphics […]
Today’s hosts are Jason Kridner, Gerald Coley and Jeffery Osier-Mixon. Below are the show note links. Links to the recordings BeagleCast-20110307.mp3 BeagleCast-20110307.ogg To provide questions or suggestions: Call +1-713-234-0535 or visit the BeagleCast suggestions form Jeff and Yocto Jeff at a conference near the Columbia river gorge Jeff now the Yocto community manager Yocto includes […]
For a simple demo that played a movie on a BeagleBoard, I wanted to add a simple mechanism to start the movie over again if the USER button was pressed. To read a Linux input event, it is as simple as just performing a read. The only trick to this for me, however, is that […]