[beagleboard] PixHawk Fire: a cape for making drones with the BBB

2015-03-26 Thread Víctor MV
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-52-_mHImSVw/VRRIETsPpCI/BC0/R1wtm3PtJGI/s1600/Captura%2Bde%2Bpantalla%2B2015-03-26%2Ba%2Blas%2B14.38.19.png I'm happy to announce that we just launched a crowdfunding campaign https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pixhawk-fire-cape/x/7817776 for the

[beagleboard] Re: BBB Flying linux, a must see for every bbb owner

2015-02-08 Thread Víctor MV
Thanks for sharing Toni. Here's http://erlerobotics.com/blog/product/pixhawk-fire-cape/ the board he's showing, available to everyone who wishes to reproduce. El jueves, 22 de enero de 2015, 10:16:45 (UTC+1), toni incog escribió: Master hacker Andrew Trdigell at LCA let bbb fly linux:

[beagleboard] Flying BeagleBones going worldwide

2015-02-08 Thread Víctor MV
Hi everyone, I'd like to express my gratitude to the community and introduce our work at Erle Robotics http://erlerobotics.com where we are pushing forward a Linux autopilot for making drones based on the BBB. It's worth mentioning that this initiative comes from the BeaglePilot

[beagleboard] First BBB flight with Ubuntu Snappy Core, drone app store coming soon

2015-02-08 Thread Víctor MV
Last week at Erle Robotics we had our fist flight with a BBB (video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEracGWi9wM). Together with the agreement with Canonical http://ubuntu.com/things we expect drone apps to start flourishing over the world. BBB hackers you are probably the right ones to come up

[beagleboard] Erle-brain, a BBB-based Linux autopilot

2014-12-22 Thread Víctor MV
Hi everyone, Following up from the work at BeaglePilot https://github.com/beaglepilot/beaglepilot's project I'm pleased to announce that at we at Erle Robotics just released the pre-orders for Erle-brain https://erlerobotics.com/blog/erle-brain/, a BBB Linux-based autopilot for making drones.

[beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Black switching to 3.14 kernel

2014-09-18 Thread Víctor MV
Hi everyone, Thanks Jason for pointing out this thread. Let me share with you our conclusions through BeaglePilot: - We tested vanilla, PREEMPT, RT_PREEMPT and Xenomai several times and our results indicated that the best performing one is actually the PREEMPT kernel (not the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone Black switching to 3.14 kernel

2014-09-18 Thread Víctor MV
with the changes. 2014-09-18 14:07 GMT-07:00 Charles Steinkuehler char...@steinkuehler.net: On 9/18/2014 3:43 PM, Víctor MV wrote: According to our benchmarking my recommendation will be to use PREEMPT because it's quite easy to activate/mantain. I'd be happy to attend any questions

[beagleboard] Re: Join BBBdrone cape project

2014-07-25 Thread Víctor MV
Erle Robotics http://erlerobot.com/ is happy to join the effort. -- 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

[beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone image question

2014-07-02 Thread Víctor MV
A small update on this matter: I tried booting with different images, specially with one that in the past probed to do the job (refer to this thread https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/Incorrect$20magic$20number$20in$20EEPROM/beagleboard/Q65z5O4haYc/jnWWXsHz0CkJ ):

[beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone image question

2014-07-02 Thread Víctor MV
on for about a second and then it switches off. No new tty interface appears under /dev/. This behavior doesn't happen with newer images but neither i can use them to flash the EEPROM. Kind regards 2014-07-02 14:04 GMT+02:00 Jason Kridner jkrid...@gmail.com: On Wednesday, July 2, 2014, Víctor MV

[beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone image question

2014-07-01 Thread Víctor MV
...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jason Kridner jkrid...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Víctor MV v.mayor...@gmail.com wrote: Jason I'm searching for one of the old BB images that allowed to write the EEPROM from u-boot. One of those that you could use to access

[beagleboard] Re: BeagleBone image question

2014-07-01 Thread Víctor MV
Mmm too late but the board doesn't seem to be damaged. Any ideas on how to flash EEPROM on the BB? 2014-07-01 19:48 GMT+02:00 Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Víctor MV v.mayor...@gmail.com wrote: Robert, Thanks for pointing it out. I flashed

[beagleboard] USB WiFi dongle connectivity issue

2014-02-16 Thread Víctor MV
Hi everyone, I'm able to connect my BBB to the router using an Edimax USB Dongle. The connection works fine and i can access Internet however i've noticed that it doesn't work the other way around: If i try to ping my BBB from another computer in the same network i get Request timeouts. After

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Boot failure external abort on non-linefetch in cpsw_probe with any image after Wi-Fi install

2014-01-11 Thread Víctor MV
Thanks for your comments @Loren. It's quite odd that the board boots fine with old kernels and not with now ones, isn't it?. I tried the images available at http://www.armhf.com/index.php/boards/beaglebone-black/: - Ubuntu Saucy

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Boot failure external abort on non-linefetch in cpsw_probe with any image after Wi-Fi install

2014-01-10 Thread Víctor MV
Some more information, i decided to give it a try with the image Angstrom-Cloud9-IDE-eglibc-ipk-v2012.02-core-beaglebone-2012.02.14.img.xzhttp://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beaglebone/Angstrom-Cloud9-IDE-eglibc-ipk-v2012.02-core-beaglebone-2012.02.14.img.xz available at

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Boot failure external abort on non-linefetch in cpsw_probe with any image after Wi-Fi install

2014-01-10 Thread Víctor MV
More information: - Angstrom-Cloud9-IDE-eglibc-ipk-v2012.01-core-beaglebone-2012.01.11.img.gzhttp://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beaglebone/archive/Angstrom-Cloud9-IDE-eglibc-ipk-v2012.01-core-beaglebone-2012.01.11.img.gz, booted (still getting *PHY 0:00 not found**, PHY

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Boot failure external abort on non-linefetch in cpsw_probe with any image after Wi-Fi install

2014-01-09 Thread Víctor MV
Hi, I'm experiencing a similar behavior in a board based on the BeagleBone (the BB itself hasn't been modified): The boot log: ... [2.155945] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address [2.162581] mmcblk0: mmc0: SU08G 7.40 GiB [2.169448] mmcblk0: p1 p2 [2.172606]

[beagleboard] Re: Erle Robot - BeagleBone based drone

2013-12-22 Thread Víctor MV
Gerard, We are currently exploring differerent choices for autopilots. I've coded a simple PID controller https://github.com/erlerobot/erle_control but using other projects such as OpenPilot or ArduPilot seem highly interesting. Furthermore, together with some other students we're exploring

Re: [beagleboard] Erle Robot - BeagleBone based drone

2013-12-05 Thread Víctor MV
Maxim, I took the BeagleBone as a starting point and extended the layout to add the sensors and actuators needed so we used the BeagleBone itself. There's an additional boost converter from the LiPo battery to 5V which powers the USB Host line. This allows to use the USB Host when powered

Re: [beagleboard] Erle Robot - BeagleBone based drone

2013-12-05 Thread Víctor MV
at BBB. any photos and video at your site would be nice to see 2013/12/5 Víctor MV v.may...@gmail.com javascript: Maxim, I took the BeagleBone as a starting point and extended the layout to add the sensors and actuators needed so we used the BeagleBone itself. There's an additional

Re: [beagleboard] Erle Robot - BeagleBone based drone

2013-12-05 Thread Víctor MV
be a good supplement to my existing drone based on the quadshot. On Dec 5, 2013 3:06 AM, Víctor MV v.may...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Dear all, For the last year I've working in a project to make a *palm-size drone*. I wanted to come up with a robot that included a *general purpose OS

Re: [beagleboard] Erle Robot - BeagleBone based drone

2013-12-05 Thread Víctor MV
We haven't tested it outside yet. I like your suggestions. We will explore this path but creating a cape is not our priority for now. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BeagleBoard group. To

Re: [beagleboard] Cloning Beaglebone

2013-11-25 Thread Víctor MV
variables do I need to set and how to set MAC Address and Variables? Thank you. On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:49:37 AM UTC-6, Víctor MV wrote: Hi Victor. I used an older version of Angstrom which let me access u-boot with my BB clone. Once there i was able to use the commands