Beagle Bone Black: Black Ops! (no not the game)

RE: Beagle Bone Black: Black Ops! (no not the game)

e14 Contributor — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 01:29:16 GMT

I wanted to see if my cheapy usb webcam works on the bbb (stock, running debian 8.5).. so I installed cheese, but during installation it said out of memory!

https://blog.adafruit.com/2014/08/26/use-cheese-to-add-a-usb-camera-to-your-beagleboneblack-txinstruments-beagleboardorg…

Not sure how much space I started with, but this is now:

root@beaglebone:~# df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev

tmpfs 100784 8520 92264 9% /run

/dev/mmcblk0p1 3706992 3552016 0 100% /

tmpfs 251956 4 251952 1% /dev/shm

tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock

tmpfs 251956 0 251956 0% /sy

How much of /devmmcblk0p1 (emmc) is from cheese? Since it didn't finish installing correctly, I'm guessing it's best not to run it, but how do unistall the partial install? And how can I see if the camera works without using cheese?

BTW, the camera I'm using is an old Logitech Quickcam Chat (640x480 961413-0215). I was hoping to use it before buying something better (Logitech C920, playstation eye, or microsoft kinect / lifecam studio Q2F-00014/X821857-003 Q2F-00015/Q2F-00003 Q2F-00013 5WH-00002 1425 Q2F-00001)

http://www.diyinhk.com/shop/usb-microscope-1080p-for-smt-soldering/51-lifecam-studio-1080p-microscope-lens-mod-kit.html

RE: Beagle Bone Black: Black Ops! (no not the game)

e14 Contributor — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:27:43 GMT

There's an official image that seemingly has some support for the camera cape now:

Image 2013.05.20

 This image does not support 1920x1080. That should appear sometime in the future.
 Add patch to make camera cape work on BBB.
 Add console on g_multi.
 Add package serial getty file.

RE: Beagle Bone Black: Black Ops! (no not the game)

DAB — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:24:36 GMT

Hi David,

Good post. I like how you approached the idea of using additional devices from other sources with your BBB.

Hopefully, your efforts will help others realize that if you have the interface specifications you can usually modify your system to access just about any device. Once you learn to correctly interface these devices, the world opens up as to what kinds of things you can accomplish with just a little work.

Keep on pushing the technology,

DAB