Calling all Students and Mentors: Applications Now Open to Join BeagleBoard.org for GSoC 2019

Calling all Students and Mentors: Applications Now Open to Join BeagleBoard.org for GSoC 2019

Google Summer of Code (GSoc) is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. We are excited that BeagleBoard.org has been again accepted as an open source community to mentor students in projects for the upcoming summer. Students and mentors are invited to join BeagleBoard.org for collaboration on open source … Continued

Berkeley Students Mentor High School Robotics using BeagleBone® Black

Berkeley Students Mentor High School Robotics using BeagleBone® Black

Pioneers in Engineering at UC Berkeley is a student outreach organization passionate that no student should be denied a quality STEM education experience. The university student members promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education through an exciting, mentorship-based robotics competition process. Since 2008, over 700 high school students have been mentored in over 30 … Continued

Educator Highlight: Derek Molloy, Teaching with PocketBeagle® and More in New Book

Educator Highlight: Derek Molloy, Teaching with PocketBeagle® and More in New Book

Derek Molloy, announces the inclusion of PocketBeagle® and BeagleBone® Black Wireless into the second edition of the popular book, Exploring BeagleBone®: Tools and Techniques for Building with Embedded Linux 2nd Edition.   He also talks to us about introducing new development platforms into the classroom. (Part 2 of 2 Parts)  Read Part 1 here. We are excited to see … Continued

Educator Highlight: Steven F. Barrett, Author, Embedded Systems Educator and Beagle Lover

Educator Highlight: Steven F. Barrett, Author, Embedded Systems Educator and Beagle Lover

Steven F. Barrett, professor of ECE and Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the University of Wyoming has been writing educational journal articles and textbooks for use in microcontroller and embedded systems courses for over 13 years.  A prolific and inspired writer, Dr Barrett has written 12 books using many different microcontroller architectures including AVR, HC12/S12, and … Continued

GSoC 2018 Brings Students and BeagleBoard.org® Mentors Together

GSoC 2018 Brings Students and BeagleBoard.org® Mentors Together

This summer, three students successfully completed  Google Summer of Code 2018 (GSoC) projects mentored by BeagleBoard.org®. GSoC, sponsored by Google, is a global program in it’s thirteenth year, focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development during a 3 month programming project. GSoC provides a way for BeagleBoard.org® to identify and bring in … Continued

Great Teaching Ideas Can Recieve a Lab of BeagleBoard.org® PocketBeagle® Boards

Great Teaching Ideas Can Recieve a Lab of BeagleBoard.org® PocketBeagle® Boards

BeagleBoard.org® Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is announcing a new program as part of our continued commitment to education in the use of open-source software and hardware. Educators in schools can apply for the opportunity to receive up to 30 PocketBeagle® boards from the BeagleBoard.org® Foundation. The donation of the boards will further project development in the classroom or makerspace. To participate in … Continued

Join BeagleBoard.org® at World Maker Faire in New York, Sept 21-23

Join BeagleBoard.org® at World Maker Faire in New York, Sept 21-23

BeagleBoard.org® is a sponsor of World Maker Faire® 2018 in the New York Hall of Science. We will be hosting talks and demos. Stay tuned to this page as the schedule develops for updated times and locations: Friday, Sept 21, 2018 10:00am – 4:00pm : Education Forum “Making the Future of Work: Make Education Forum” … Continued

Educator Highlight: Mark Yoder, Trailblazer in Teaching Embedded Linux

It came naturally to Dr Yoder to want to bring the new concept of Open Source Embedded Linux Computing to his students using the BeagleBoard®

Educator Highlight: Mark Yoder, Trailblazer in Teaching Embedded Linux

It came naturally to Dr Yoder to want to bring the new concept of Open Source Embedded Linux Computing to his students using the BeagleBoard®

Friday Hack Chat with Jason Kridner

Friday Hack Chat with Jason Kridner

This Friday: Jason Kridner will joining Hackaday’s weekly Hack Chat to talk BeagleBone, PocketBeagle, the BeagleBoard.org community and more! Friday Hack Chat: The Incredible BeagleBoard Topics for this Hack Chat will include the direction BeagleBoard is going, the communities involved with BeagleBoard, and how to get the most out of those precious programmable real-time units. As always, … Continued

GSoC 2017: BeagleWire software support

GSoC 2017: BeagleWire software support

Patryk Mężydło has posted the final video for his Google Summer of Code 2017 project GSoC17 Project: BeagleWire software support – final presentation The task is to create software support for FPGA cape (based on iCE40 device). The completed project will provide the BeagleBoard.org community with easy to implement and powerful tools for realization of projects … Continued