BeagleBoard.org Joins the Zephyr Project

BeaglePlay

BeagleBoard.org has joined the Zephyr Project as an Associate Member, formalizing a collaboration that has been growing for years. Zephyr is already a familiar tool across the Beagle ecosystem. Support for Beagle platforms has been developed upstream alongside the community, and many Beagle users are already using Zephyr for real-time, low-level, and microcontroller-class development (even […]

BeaglePlay Reaches Upstream PowerVR Graphics Milestone — A Win for Open Source and Our Community

BeaglePlay

At BeagleBoard.org, our mission is to educate, empower, and unite a global community around open-source hardware and software for embedded computing. Recent upstream graphics progress on BeaglePlay exemplifies what’s possible when an open ecosystem, robust community engagement, and modern open-source software come together. Upstream PowerVR Support — What’s Happened? BeaglePlay — a powerful, open-source Linux-ready […]

Using configfs for dynamic device tree overlays with BalenaOS

BeaglePlay

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 […]

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 […]

Armbian support is here!

BeaglePlay

Several BeagleBoards are now supported under the Armbian build system and community! Armbian is a lightweight Linux distribution and build system optimized for ARM-based single-board computers (SBCs).  Adopting Armbian will help standardize the user experience and software release schedule for all boards while simultaneously being able to provide options for different distros (various Debian and […]

BeagleCast: 2024 Holiday Special

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The BeagleCast 2024 Holiday Special discusses developments in BeagleY-AI, community growth, and future projects for 2025—including the imminent release of PocketBeagle 2. Episode Highlights 🤖 2024 marked as the year of AI with community-driven projects. 🎉 BeagleY-AI’s promising mainline support. 🛠️ Upcoming PocketBeagle 2 features improved performance and connectivity. 💡 Exciting developments in Zephyr OS […]

This Week in Beagle #3

BeaglePlay

Hello everyone. Another light week here. Let’s go over everything. BeaglePlay PWM Patch A while ago, I discovered that the MikroBUS PWM pin was not enabled in the upstream devicetree for BeaglePlay. So I created a patch to enable PWM and it was finally merged last week. BeagleConnect Freedom Debugging Continuing the work from last […]

This Week in Beagle #2

BeaglePlay

Hello everyone. This week mostly involved a lot of chasing stuff around (sometimes in vain), so while there was not much headline work, this post might end up a bit longer than usual. Let’s get started without delay. BeagleConnect Freedom Adventures I started the week by trying to add IEEE802154 subg socket support in MicroPython […]

BeaglePlay® and ClickID Magic!

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Originally posted by MikroE at https://www.mikroe.com/blog/beagleplay-and-clickid-magic. Shared here with permission. BeaglePlay® and ClickID Magic! What is ClickID? ClickID is a hardware and software solution for mikroBUS™ peripheral identification by any system. All information that you might need about that peripheral is located on the on-board EEPROM chip. Information such as board name, product ID, interfaces used, matching […]

BeaglePlay: First Experience

BeaglePlay

Your Gateway to Seamless Embedded Development Welcome to the first article in my series of 64 reasons to love BeaglePlay! BeaglePlay, with its compact 8cm by 8cm design, is an open hardware single-board computer that’s truly packed with features to adore. Out-of-the-Box Ready At BeagleBoard.org, we’re on a mission to make embedded development as accessible […]