Kernel 6.12 arrives at a BeagleV-Fire near you

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Our friends at Microchip have been hard at work, and we’re now ready to present early preview images for all of you, living on the bleeding edge. Taken from 27d2ab0 we’re building an RC1 kernel, so all the normal disclaimers and waivers apply! As these are EA images, you won’t find them in the BeagleBoard Imaging […]

Talking BeagleY-AI and PocketBeagle 2 on Hackster Cafe

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I was able to join Alex Glow on Hackster Cafe and talk about BeagleY-AI and PocketBeagle 2. Key points: Upcoming Android release on BeagleY-AI Bela GEM crowdfunding campaign uses PocketBeagle 2 TechLab workshop on PocketBeagle 2 BeagleY-AI On-The-Edge give-away from Hackster

BeagleV-Fire chosen as target for Space Grade Linux

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Some of you have heard me say that when a Raspberry Pi goes into space, it’s news, but when a Beagle board goes into space, it’s Tuesday. Sure, it’s hyperbole, but it sure feels to me that I talk to a lot of people putting various boards of ours into space, especially BeagleBone Black, without […]

MCUboot with BeagleConnect Freedom

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Hello everyone. It has been a while since my last post. Today, I will go over using MCUboot based serial OTA on BeagleConnect Freedom. Everything required has already been merged to upstream Zephyr now, so no special considerations should be required. Introduction BeagleConnect Freedom contains a simple bootloader in ROM, which boots the Zephyr application […]

Using configfs for dynamic device tree overlays with BalenaOS

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I spend most of my time working on BeagleBoard.org community projects, but I do a few projects of my own building IoT devices. There are a number of good software infrastructure tools out there, but I often use Balena. The problem I have faced often is not specific at all to Balena, but I’d like […]

Bela Gem Brings Ultra-Low Latency Audio to PocketBeagle 2

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Stereo and multichannel audio boards for embedded DSP Bela has just launched Bela Gem – a new open-source audio platform for the PocketBeagle® 2 — on Crowd Supply. These two new boards, Bela Gem Stereo and Bela Gem Multi, bring real-time, high-resolution audio I/O to the Beagle ecosystem with sub-millisecond latency and a growing ecosystem […]

Webinar: Fun and simple electronics with PocketBeagle 2

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Join Robert and me as we catch you up on the latest learning materials for working with PocketBeagle 2 and electronics using Linux and PocketBeagle TechLab Cape. The webinar is June 19, 2025 at noon US Central time. Register: here   The learning materials introduced are based in Python and Rust programming languages and utilize […]

This Week in Beagle #28

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Hello everyone. A typical work week. Let’s go over everything. Fix MicroBlocks CI Recently, the MicroBlocks CI which builds microblocks dev and pilot branches have been failing. After a bit of testing, I found that a cmsis_6 zephyr module is now required by BeagleConnect Freedom. The CI was fixed by allowing the module in the […]

This Week in Beagle #27

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Hello everyone. I ended up skipping some weekly updates since there was not much to talk about. Maybe I should make this series a bi-weekly thing instead of weekly updates. Anyway, I will be going over things from all the missed weeks as well. Let’s get started. Zephyr Add MAIN domain USARTs for PocketBeagle 2 […]

This Week in Beagle #26

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Hello everyone. A typical work week. Let’s go over everything. Use extlinux in Armbian images Thanks to all the amazing work by Andrei Aldea, PocketBeagle 2 and other BeagleBoard.org boards support Armbian. By default, it seems Armbian uses the old uEnv.txt file to specify the boot entry. This is fine, but the newer extlinux.conf is […]