Thank you for that constructive comment William, very grown up. I'll bet my European arse is a lot smaller than your American butt... Its a bit like this thread, one of the first I read about BBB https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/hermans/beagleboard/951nWp_Jcnc/ZZV0GPwB3z8J Eye opening, anyone asks a question or queries anything and they get flamed along the lines of "We developed this board for free and you expect our knowledge for free" yet there is no option to get any knowledge other than as you and other point out in that thread "Google". You guys seem to be offended if someone doesn't want to use the command line vis ssh. You do realise its 2015?
We or any BBB newbie are not asking for our hands to be held, just a few pointers. The work we did on the Arduino is now being packaged as open source, thats a fully working implementation of CanOpen geared specifically towards motor / servo control, it will save devs months of work. Anyway, I do understand the OS, no need for the snide superior attitude, we are prototyping, you surely understand the concept? Spend little, develop fast, then invest in custom PCB's etc. The BBB has a fairly powerful CPU and CAN bus, it ticks a lot of boxes for us. We are a start up not Microsoft or Tesla, FFS (to paraphrase you). We were just a little surprised to find basic issues with running off a 5v supply, has to be a very clean supply, not just any 5V 2A supply. Basically we had a lot of teething problems, which we have mostly had to work around, not solve. The issue of USB connectivity: its a lot more convenient for us to just use USB for demo / mobility purposes, rather than having two cables plugged into the BBB, ethernet & USB. For our fixed machines, I agree it's not a problem, but for those using laptops, its a bit of a nuisance. Forgive me for complaining about the lack of documentation. Case in point: Take the LSM303, finding coherent instructions was difficult. I bought Derek Molloy's book and we are now tearing ahead, his instructions are consistent. Infant we bought heaps of books (all I could find) on the BBB, if you go through them, there are discrepencies even in basic set up. As a wise man once said, "If you don't have anything constructive to say, don't speak". -- 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/d/optout.
