William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 51 lines --] > > You need to find and read sources about embedded Linux. Then, since your > project could be done using any number of languages, you need to figure > that out too. Past that, you're going to have to figure out what hardware > you're going to use. Which will indicate if you're using SPI. I2C, UART, > onboard ADC's or PWM's etc. > > In your shoes, I'd start off with and continue using these instructions: > https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black. You can use either > Debian or Ubuntu with these build instructions. I've been using these > instructions since last year ( around 14 or slightly more months ), and > they're very consistent. > > You could also start off with a premade Debian console image if you like. > > You can definitely compile natively on the board, but if you plan on cross > compiling, you're going to need to understand the gcc toolchain thoroughly. > For setup and use. > Why compile anything? For the proposed project (Greenhouse control) speed is not any sort of priority so use an interpreted language, the obvious choice on BBB is Python.
... and I am also a long in the tooth software engineer with maybe 30 years of experience writing C, but I'd still recommend going with Python on this sort of project. -- Chris Green ยท -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
