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TGIF - share your weekend plans for the BeagleBone Black!

fustini

Howdy - I was quite pleased to get a groovy BeagleBone BlackBeagleBone Black t-shirt at The specified item was not found. and couldn't resist wearing it for TGIF.  Boris looks so classy!

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For those that have already have a BeagleBone BlackBeagleBone Black, do you have any new projects you are going to start this weekend?  And for those that are waiting, is there a project idea that has got you excited?

 

I'm hoping to get RTLizer (an RF spectrum analyzer powered by a USB DVB receiver) to run on the BeagleBone BlackBeagleBone Black using the HDMI output and GPIO inputs for controls.  Here's what it looks like running on my original Boneoriginal Bone with a LCD3 capeLCD3 cape and battery capebattery cape:

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I'm planning to finsih reading the in-depth System Reference Manual [PDF] which I found in BeagleBone Black article on the CircuitCo wiki.  I can't wait for my order for Bad to the Bone to arrive:

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If you've not had the pleasure of meeting the brains behind Beagle, Jason Kridner & Gerald Coley, then I recommend checking out this video where cliff ortmeyer of Newark element14 interviews them about the new BeagleBone BlackBeagleBone Black.  You'll also get a glimpse of the BaconCape (yum!) and a demonstration of how BoneScript makes it simple to interface web apps with the physical world:

 

And since it's now happy hour on Friday, this video on brewing beer with the BeagleBone BlackBeagleBone Black would seem to be an appropriate chaser:

 

Cheers,

Drew

http://twitter.com/pdp7

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  • Quick update - over the weekend I updated to the latest image: http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/angstrom/beaglebone/BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.05.03.img.xz (via http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=Updating_The_Software).  I now have:

    root@beaglebone:~# uname -a

    Linux beaglebone 3.8.11 #1 SMP Fri May 3 15:39:16 CEST 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux

    I also got BeagleStache running on it along with BeagleButan (a Python helper that bonnie555 wrote for a big red USB button).  Here's the setup:

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    And here's a video:

     

    The twitter account it's using: http://twitter.com/boothstache/

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    I'm hoping to get going on the RTL-SDR and the RF spectrum analyzer next.

     

    cheers,

    drew

  • in reply to fustini

    Drew Fustini wrote:

     

    Quick update - over the weekend I updated to the latest image: http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/angstrom/beaglebone/BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.05.03.img.xz (via http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=Updating_The_Software).  I now have:

    Out of curosity, how long did the update take ?  I've seen it documented to take 45 mins, but that feels too long.

     

    I'm going to start with a minimal Debian on mine rather than fighting on with angstrom. However the day job is getting in the way image

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    It does take about that amount of time.  I usually check on it after an hour and it will be done.  I read on the beagleboard google group that there may be ways for them to speed that up in the future as once more important issues are resolved. 

     

    I am looking forward to trying other distros, too.  I've only used angstrom on beagle's.  I'm getting used to opkg, systemd and some other things, but I'd probably go to Debian or Ubuntu when there's a BBB image available.

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    Drew Fustini wrote:

     

    I am looking forward to trying other distros, too.  I've only used angstrom on beagle's.  I'm getting used to opkg, systemd and some other things, but I'd probably go to Debian or Ubuntu when there's a BBB image available.

     

    Ditto.  I'll probably leave Angstrom on the eMMC as a rescue and reference system, mostly because the Beagleboard devs are invested strongly in it (for no good reason that they've explained, AFAIK).  It's somewhat academic currently anyway, since I don't have a BBB yet, just a BB.

     

    My general plan is to put Debian (or any other non-Busybox distro) on my future BBB's SD cards and/or NFS images.  I expect to get several BBBs once they're in stock.  I'm not putting up with pre-ordering, had enough of that nonsense with the Pi, I'd rather wait.

     

    Morgaine.

  • in reply to morgaine

    Ah, busybox, yeah that is something I've found annoying with Angstrom.  But for now I'll settle for it so I can easily run the latest kernel using Koen Kooi's BBB Angstrom images [LCD4 cape support should be coming soon].

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