What started as a side project during my first few weeks of interning at The FreeBSD Foundation, has become a useful LED display of the current FreeBSD CI (continuous integration) build status, and is running 24/7 in the Foundation Kitchener office, proudly running FreeBSD on a BeagleBone Green.

A detailed guide/article is posted at the FreeBSD Foundation Blog. The draft of the article is posted here. Pull Requests are very welcome.

• A working installation of FreeBSD
• BeagleBone Green with a 4GB micro-SD card, a serial cable and Internet connection
• An addressable LED RGB strip. This project uses an APA102 LED strip from Sparkfun

My implementation of this project: yzgyyang/freebsd-ci-ledstrip

FreeBSD's support for BeagleBone: FreeBSD/arm/BeagleBoneBlack

A guide of building, installing and updating FreeBSD on a BeagleBone: Getting Started with FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black

Official BeagleBone Green Document: BeagleBone Green

APA102 Manual

Understanding the APA102 “Superled”

FreeBSD GPIO Benchmark

I would like to thank my supervisor Ed Maste for his guidance and support on my work. I would also like to thank Siva Mahadevan, my colleague and friend, for the help and useful suggestions.