This week I intended on blogging about working and programming for the PRU in assembly and working with the GPIO.
Until I bricked the Beaglebone Black we were given.
Usually when you brick a device you can get it back up. Typically, it is the instructions/firmware on the flash chip that have corrupted or it's the operating system you're running on the board.
However, when you're wiring up the breakout pins (P8 / P9) and you accidently cross-wire the 5 volt line through a button to an input pin socket, or you accidently short the pin out across ground and such.
That's when you kill it. The Power LED flashes briefly and nothing more happens.
So yes, I killed the challenge BeagleBone Black that we were donated.
Sorry. Can we have another pretty please?
Let this be a lesson to everyone else..
Oops.
