The Raspberry Pi 2 is just barely a month old, and now that vintage console emulation on this new hardware has been nailed down, it’s just about time for everyone to do real work. You know, recompiling stuff to take advantage of the new CPU, figuring out how to get Android working on the Pi, and all that good stuff that makes the Pi useful.
It will come as no surprise to our regular readers that there’s another board out there that’s just as good in most cases, and in some ways better than the Pi 2. It’s the BeagleBone Black, and for this edition of the Hacklet, we’re focusing on all the cool BeagleBone projects on Hackaday.io.
So you have a credit card sized Linux computer and a small, old LCD panel. If it doesn’t have HDMI, VGA or composite input, there’s probably no way of getting this display working, right? Nope. Not when you can make an LCD cape for $10.
[Dennis] had an old digital picture frame from a while back, and decided his BeagleBone needed a display. A few bits of wire and some FPC connectors, and [Dennis] has a custom display for his ‘Bone. It’s better than waiting for that DSI display…
[THX1082] is making a bed for his son. This isn’t your usual race car bed, or even a very cool locomotive bed. No, this is a spaceship bed. Is your bed a space ship? No, I didn’t think so.
Most of the work with plywood, MDF, paint, and glue is done, which means the best feature of this bed – a BeagleBone Black with an LCD, buttons, a TV, and some 3D printed parts – is what [THX] is working on right now. He’s even forking a multiplayer networked starship simulator to run in the bed. Is your bed a starship simulator?
Beer. [Deric] has been working on a multi-step fermentation controller using the BeagleBone Black. For good beer you need to control temperatures and time, lest you end up with some terrible swill that I’d probably still drink.
This project controls every aspect of fermentation, from encouraging yeast growth, metabolization of sugars, and flocculation. The plan is to use two circuits – one for heating and one for cooling – and a pair of temperature sensors to ensure the beer is fermenting correctly.
If you’re looking for more BeagleBone Projects, there’s an entire list of them over on Hackaday.io with GLaDOs Glasses, Flight Computers, and Computer Vision.
Yah BBB! cool article
reading this while compiling some modules for my own BBB (barometric altimeter driver for a HAB project)
40A seems a bit much for a 220V heater :)
My baseboard heater is rated for something like 3000 watts, and heats most of the house in California weather (a couple of bedrooms have their own.) Unfortunately, the wiring is designed to need a full-220V thermostat, instead of a low-voltage one and a relay, and we weren’t going to rip apart all the walls to replace the wiring when the previous thermostat died. The available thermostats were roughly 25A for the dumb one, and 15A for the one smart 240V one we could find (about the same as the old one), which isn’t really enough spare capacity, so now we’ve got a dumb one again.
I really wish there was more BBB activity out there, but it seems to be increasing in popularity now that people can actually get them.
I wish they were more inline price wise than the R_Pi. I think that is what pushes popularity in these things… price.
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