This hands-on workshop introduces participants to Bela, an open source embedded platform for ultra-low latency audio and sensor processing based on the BeagleBone Black. We will present the hardware and software features of Bela through a tutorial that gets participants started developing interactive music projects. Bela projects can be developed in C/C++ or Pure Data (Pd), and the platform features an on-board browser-based IDE for getting started quickly. This workshop will focus specifically on using C++ with Bela to create self-contained instruments. :http://bela.io [http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~andrewm/ Augmented Instruments Lab]