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

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 […]

Open Source and Diversity Go Hand-in-Hand

Looking ahead to International Women in Engineering Day and back on International Women’s Day, I’ve been reflecting on our industry’s amazing accomplishments and what we can do to foster even greater success. Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD; Limor Fried, the founder of Adafruit Industries; and Calista Redmond, CEO of the RISC-V Foundation after years in […]

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 […]

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” […]

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®

PocketBone designed in KiCad

The PocketBone is an Open Source Hardware design by Michael Welling in KiCad for the Octavo OSD3358 SiP (System-in-Package). Brian Benchoff wrote about it recently on Hackaday: Hackaday: “An Even Smaller BeagleBone” The BeagleBone famously fits in an Altoids tin. Even though we now have BeagleBone Blacks, Blues, and Greens, the form factor for this curiously strong Linux […]