Reach expansion board for Replicape ready for review
Beaglebone | Reach | Replicape

Reach expansion board for Replicape ready for review

I have gotten a few requests for an expansion board to accompany the Replicape lately, so I have made an inital version for anyone interested in adding more extruders than the standard two present on Replicape. The Reach board uses the spare PWM and ADC pins from Replicape to keep the cost down and the…

Replicape printing a tree frog
Beaglebone | Clutter | Manga Screen | Replicape | spline | Toggle

Replicape printing a tree frog

Hey, I took a video of the Replicape finishing a print last night: The video shows the Thing printer, which is a demo-printer for displaying the capabilities of the Replicape and the Manga Screen and also for developing Spline, which is a all-metal remotely cooled dual Bowden extruder that I’m working on. Here is a…

Converting Device tree overlays to Kernel 3.12 on BeagleBone Black
Beaglebone | Replicape

Converting Device tree overlays to Kernel 3.12 on BeagleBone Black

Most distributions for Beaglebone comes with the 3.8 version of the Linux Kernel, but since the BB is still quite young there is a lot of development going on and there are some advantages to upgrading to a newer kernel, for instance due to the SGX support. However, there has been a few changes to…

Writing Clutter apps on BeagleBone Black using Python
Beaglebone | Clutter | Manga Screen | Replicape | Toggle

Writing Clutter apps on BeagleBone Black using Python

Clutter is a great SDK for writing hardware accelerated GUI apps for embedded devices. It can run on X and Wayland, but it can also use the framebuffer directly and bypass the overhead of a display manager completely, ideal for embedded devices. I have spent the last few weeks working on getting Clutter to run…

How to distribute software with OPKG for Beaglebone black
Beaglebone | Replicape

How to distribute software with OPKG for Beaglebone black

OPKG for Beaglebone black If you have made a cape for the BeagleBone (black), made the device tree to go along with it and you have flashed the EEPROM as you should, chances are that you also need some software to go along with it. If you also have ambitions of distributing your cape, you…