The Beagle Board Trainer from Tin Can Tools is a nifty daughterboard for the Beagle Board, offering level shifters for the built-in outputs such as GPIO, I2C, and SPI. This enables you to talk to 3.3v and 5v devices (the Beagle Board works with 1.8v signaling). Tin Can Tools sent me a Trainer board to take out for a spin.
The Embedded Linux Wiki has great instructions for getting up and running with the Hawkboard, but they are geared toward people using Linux. Although I’ve got a virtual machine handy running Linux, I do most of my work on the Mac, so I looked into the steps needed to boot the Hawkboard under the Mac.
Sick of being harassed just for trying to extend the functionality of your graphing calculator?
OSCON this year will be a delight for anybody interested in working with hardware. A full open source hardware track offers a range of talks to get you started with hardware hacking, and gives a great insight into the current options for prototyping.
Interested in playing with the open-source Beagleboard, but don’t have a DVI-capable monitor to use it with?
Congratulations to Antti Seppänen, whose Beagle Board-based robot is the winner of the first Beagle Board design contest. What’s more, Antti also created a very cool expansion board for the Beagle Board, and made the design available under a CC license: My Beagle bot required building an expansion board. Some requirements for expansion board: Wide […]
TI’s BeagleBoard is a great little Linux system. It consumes less than 2 watts and can connect to all sorts of things; it has an HDMI port that carries DVI-D video, a USB port that lets you connect USB peripherals such as keyboards, mice, and network adapters, an RS-232 serial port, and an expansion connector […]
