AM62x PRU Academy is Now Live!

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Hi all, the team at TI is excited to announce that the AM62x and AM26x PRU Academy is Now Live! Check it out here! That means a lot more learning material for getting started with the PRU on PocketBeagle 2 and BeaglePlay! This release accompanies v2026.01.00 of the Open-PRU GitHub Repo — a software development […]

BeagleBoard.org Joins the Zephyr Project

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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 […]

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

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 […]

This Week in Beagle #25

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Hello everyone. A typical work week. Let’s go over everything. Zephyr support for PocketBeagle 2 PocketBeagle 2 is a single board computer with AM62xx soc, and the primary supported OS is Linux. We provide Debian-based images for the board, with initial support for Armbian. This is what most people will be using it with. However, […]

This Week in Beagle #24

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Hello everyone. A typical work week. Let’s go over everything. PocketBeagle 2 M4 GPIO Support Initial ZephyrRTOS support for PocketBeagle 2 M4 core was merged last week. This only included tested support for UART (RX: P2.05, TX: P2.07). It is possible to enable GPIO and I2C using overlays, but there are no examples at the […]