Hi Eric, just be attention on the power problem. You cant use much current and power from the bbb pins; If you use python you could try to change from one os to another os but debian looks better.
2014-02-27 15:51 GMT-03:00 William Hermans <[email protected]>: > For what it is worth. I got my beaglebone black last year when they were > first being sold to the public( we had two on pre-order). At the time I was > working with the MSP430 launchpad, and talking back and forth with several > people from this community about the BBB as we all were learning. > > What I found is that Angstrom was counter productive when it came to do > almost anything. NO documentation that I could find, and everything was > like pulling teeth. Much like how many Linux distributions were 10+ years > ago . . . Personally I prefer forward progress with any OS I do use. > > So after about a week of trying to no avail, I found Roberts compile from > source instructions for Debian. Since then, I have never looked back. > Everything is solid. Granted you may not get the package list an x86 distro > may have, but that has everything to do with the architecture, and nothing > to do with the distro. > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Eric Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks >> >> I will have one BBB for data acquisition (temp, light levels, other) and >> they will be on wifi initially. Maybe ZigBee later. The other one will be >> in a robot I am building that will be about 16 inches round and maybe a >> foot high. Steppers, Servos, motors and a video camera (openCV). If I need >> more than one BBB I am fine with that. >> >> I got my first BBB today and am installing wheezy 7.2 on it now. I found >> angstrom a touchy form the start. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:25 PM, si c <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> while not shifting from OS to OS as you may want to do, i can share my >>> experience with you. >>> >>> i tried to follow a lot of the documentation that comes with the BBB and >>> angstrom. and on two different BBB platforms i had the same issues with >>> both boards, broken angstrom packages etc, problem after problem, almost >>> enough hair pulling and dead ends to make me throw the BBB in the bin for >>> good. >>> >>> and the god bless em, R.C Nelson comes to the party. >>> >>> since i install debian and followed his doco basically all i had to do >>> was get the os on the emmc then run two or three scripts that were >>> downloaded and volia i have a happy BBB doing what i want it too, zero >>> problems and reasonable learning curve. plus everyone else has tried his >>> image theres a log of doco and help on the groups here. Plus, Robert will >>> nudge you in the right direction if you ask too. always helpful. >>> >>> maybe Eric if you specify what you want to do down the road people can >>> share their experiences, my BBB just streams data to a NAS. i run a gui on >>> it (lxde) on a rce debian special. >>> >>> good luck, i would put it to you to try one the rcn debian images he's >>> put together for a better initial experience. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Eric Palmer >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Marcus de Vasconcelos Diogo da Silva "Uma montanha até um cego consegue desviar,mas é nas pedras menores que nós muitas vezes tropeçamos e caimos!" -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
