BB-8 Around the Web
Sep 27, 2026 - Eric Boehlke
A running list of the places my BB-8 has shown up online, so I can keep track of them in one spot.
Features and Articles
- Adafruit Blog, August 11, 2015: Beaglebone BB-8 Droid.
It links to the old Robotic Blues construction page (
sites.google.com/site/myroboticblues/bb-8/hardware), which no longer works. That content is now in the Construction section here. - Make:, November 20, 2015: BB-8 Uses Omniwheels and Beaglebone for Self-Balancing Head
- Adafruit Blog, December 20, 2015: BB-8 Uses Omniwheels and Beaglebone for Self-Balancing Head #SciFiSunday
- Make: Magazine, in print
- BeagleBoard.org, July 29, 2019: BB-8 Uses Omniwheels and BeagleBone for Self-Balancing Head.
This is the article from A New Article on BB-8, which has since moved from its original
beagleboard.org/p/…address. - Hackster.io, July 29, 2019: BB-8 Uses Omniwheels and BeagleBone for Self-Balancing Head, the same article as BeagleBoard.org
My Own Pages
- Building BB-8 on YouTube, November 13, 2015
- ericboehlke/BB-8 on GitHub, the source code for both robots
- BB8 Pictures, a Google Photos album from the summer of 2016
- Robotic Blues, the Google Site where I first documented the project.
It started at
sites.google.com/site/myroboticblues, later moved torobots.ericboehlke.com, and now lives on the BB-8 page here.