William Thanks
I hope to stick with debian. I am going to use ansible to provision the bbb so that I can redo it should I need to reimage the board or want to duplicate the configuration. I use ansilbe for building out load balances cloud web servers (and other things). http://www.ansible.com/ I am aware of the low current issue so will have to really pay attention to circuit design. I think I'm going to learn a lot of EE stuff real soon. Eric. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Marcus Diogo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Eric Palmer -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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