Drew, I've never heard of that app until now, but is the BBB really the
best system to run that on ? Just curious as it looked something akin to
Wings3D( ltos of graphics intensive stuff )

If it works it works though just curious.


On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Drew Fustini <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks again to all in this thread, after LXDE installed, I am able to run
> Slic3r GUI and successfully turned the Boris STL from Jason into gcode with
> it :)
>
>
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5RqCsqY-cIU/U7cGSgfxEmI/AAAAAAAC1Go/8MOHphIQaeE/s1600/slic3rbbb.png>
> photos:
> https://plus.google.com/photos/117542001281850354871/albums/6032279879667072625?banner=pwa
>
> I'm quite please at this because our Chicago Public Library Maker Lab now
> has a Lulzbot TAZ (100% Open Source :) but they don't have rights to
> install slic3r on their Windows PCs in the lab (it takes long time for IT
> dept to install).  So I've set up a BeagleBone Black their which they can
> run Slic3r on!  Next step is to get printrun and pronterface running but
> the Lulzbot TAZ 4 has a nice LCD controller with SD card reader so its not
> as critical as Slic3r.
>
> cheers,
> drew
>
>
> On Friday, July 4, 2014 12:16:09 PM UTC-5, Drew Fustini wrote:
>>
>> Thanks all!  apt-get install slic3r worked like a charm.  Waiting for
>> lxde to install now.
>>
>> log from my shell for those interested: https://gist.github.com/pdp7/
>> 15ff7ec4e06593c2086b
>>
>>
>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tnZJDoIwaQ8/U7bhUHBULfI/AAAAAAAC1AA/G-2-PO763Lg/s1600/slic3r-bbb.png>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, July 3, 2014 6:04:13 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Drew Fustini <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > I burned jesse image but uboot didn't like find anything to boot (seen
>>> via
>>> > ftdi cable)
>>> >
>>> >> (just make sure you blank out the eMMC, otherwise it won't boot..)
>>> >
>>> > Is this some explicit action I need to do to the eMMC before booting
>>> off uSD
>>> > with the jessie image?
>>>
>>> Just hold down the boot button, then once booted:
>>>
>>> mkdir ./disk
>>> sudo mount /dev/mmcblk1p1 ./disk
>>> sudo rm -f ./disk/MLO
>>> sync
>>> sudo umount /dev/mmcblk1p1
>>>
>>> (reboot)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Robert Nelson
>>> http://www.rcn-ee.com/
>>>
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