I just got back from a meetup of Machinekit developers hosted by Tormach, a maker of professional CNC machines. There I got a glimpse into the future of personal CNC machines and 3D printers. Building on the long successful LinuxCNC project, Machinekit has added support for additional platforms, including BeagleBone Black, and additional real-time Linux […]
Make write-up on updating to new BeagleBone Black Debian images
Hack-a-day write-up on BeagleBone PRU
This is for building the current “production” 3.8 kernel. I’ll follow-up with building a mainline kernel in a few days. I’m only documenting this here temporarily to see if there really are any gaps in the kernel build documentation that are causing people to stumble. I got a query on #beagle yesterday that I haven’t […]
Saving electricity on your blog server by using BeagleBone Black for your mail server, data server and more.
Just a couple of weeks in, we already have our first image update. It doesn’t include any major changes, but it should be noted that the LEDs will now turn OFF at the completion of the execution of the eMMC flasher as the board will be shutdown. This avoids any cruft to build up on […]
Why not start to share some of these cool things on WordPress on my own WordPress blog? I’ve been playing with Node-RED and it is pretty darn cool!
Easier to use, double the memory, Debian based and ready to go from the box WHAT: The community asked and we delivered! With BeagleBone Black Rev C, BeagleBoard.org has made the move to the Debian GNU/Linux distribution pulling directly from the upstream Debian repositories. This means users will have an environment more familiar […]