BeagleBoard.org Unveils the BeagleBadge, a Compact All-In-One Open-Hardware ePaper Badge Board

Open hardware specialist BeagleBoard.org has announced a new development board in its growing family, and this one brings an ePaper display along for the ride: meet the BeagleBadge.

"BeagleBadge champions BeagleBoard.org Foundation's core pillars of Access, Literacy, Ownership, and Longevity, empowering users to move from simply consuming technology to actively creating it," says BeagleBoard.org's Jason Kridner of the new launch, unveiled today at Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg. "BeagleBadge provides access through a wearable design that can be easily experienced and understood by people of all skill levels. Literacy can be built through diving into novice to professional training built around PocketBeagle 2 and TechLab – allowing you to peel back the layers of the onion. Ownership is established with detailed open hardware design materials, individually sourceable parts, and software references. Longevity is maintained through Beagle’s on-going upstreaming and long-term production commitments."

Where previous BeagleBoard.org designs have lacked integrated displays, the BeagleBadge is built around a 4.2" electrophoretic ePaper display — requiring energy only when changing states. This, the company explains, comes complete with native drivers for Linux along with libraries for MicroPython and LVGL. Behind the display is a Texas Instruments Sitara AM62L32 dual-core Arm Cortex-A53 application-class processor running at up to 1.25GHz, 256MB of LPDDR4 RAM, 4GB of eMMC storage, and 256Mb (32MB) of octo-SPI flash.

Elsehwere on the board is a BeagleMod CC3301 module, providing single-band 2.4GHz Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 wireless connectivity — expandable to offer long-range low-power LoRaWAN connectivity with an Wio SX1262 module. There's an integrated battery management system for a readily-available BL-5C format lithium-ion battery, and a four-way joystick, tactile buttons, piezoelectric buzzer, and two seven-segment LED displays. For sensing, the board includes an integrated accelerometer and gyroscope alongside an ambient light sensor with a footprint for an optional temperature and humidity sensor — and if that isn't enough, the board has dual Qwiic, Grove, and mikroBUS headers for solderless expansion.

"This means you can instantly plug in and unlock thousands of additional sensors and actuators—from pulse oximeters and UV spectroscopy to fingerprint readers, GPS, haptics, and audio modules — all without ever needing to pick up a soldering iron," Kridner says of the board's expandability. "And as with all Beagles, the design is fully open-source hardware, freeing you to extend the design in any way that you can imagine."

More information on the BeagleBadge is now available on the BeagleBoard.org site; the board is up for pre-order on Seeed Studio's store, priced at $99. The design files for the board are expected to be uploaded to OpenBeagle.org in the near future, but at the time of writing had not yet appeared.