Re: [beagleboard] BBBlue student robot project

2016-10-26 Thread Jason Kridner
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:39 PM William Hermans wrote: > Id, double check and document everything when trying ot setup the serial > debug port on the Beaglebone blue. Which to me going form pictures on the > internet. Just seems to be *another* beaglebone, but with a blue

Re: [beagleboard] BBBlue student robot project

2016-10-24 Thread William Hermans
Id, double check and document everything when trying ot setup the serial debug port on the Beaglebone blue. Which to me going form pictures on the internet. Just seems to be *another* beaglebone, but with a blue PCB. In other words. It appears to be very similar to if not exactly the same as a

Re: [beagleboard] BBBlue student robot project

2016-10-24 Thread Samuel Lawrence
Hello, I am the other student working on the project. Thanks for the help you all have given. We were embarrassed to find out last Thursday that the USB cable we were using was off-spec and had no data wires so we were getting power but no communication. I had no idea such cables existed but

Re: [beagleboard] BBBlue student robot project

2016-10-19 Thread William Hermans
Sorry I sort of mixed up my explanation a little. So if you're connecting to the serial debug port on the beaglebone to a Linux host machine. The beaglebone side interface would be /dev/ttyO0, where on the host computer side the serial interface would show up as something similar to /dev/ttyUSB0

Re: [beagleboard] BBBlue student robot project

2016-10-19 Thread William Hermans
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Alvin Koontz wrote: > Hi, I am one of the students who was given the BBBlue to interface with > the robot, We have the latest image on an SD card in the BBBlue, on boot > the leds appear to go through the normal boot routine. However we are

Re: [beagleboard] BBBlue student robot project

2016-10-19 Thread Alvin Koontz
Hi, I am one of the students who was given the BBBlue to interface with the robot, We have the latest image on an SD card in the BBBlue, on boot the leds appear to go through the normal boot routine. However we are unable to interface with it in anyway. Initially we tried to connect with the

Re: [beagleboard] BBBlue student robot project

2016-10-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Mark A. Yoder wrote: > I've just handed off my BBBlue to a student team to interface it to SparkFun > robot[1]. > > Where should I point them to get current information on the Blue? For > example, what image should they be running? Start

Re: [beagleboard] BBBlue student robot project

2016-10-14 Thread Jason Kridner
> On Oct 14, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Mark A. Yoder wrote: > > I've just handed off my BBBlue to a student team to interface it to SparkFun > robot[1]. > > Where should I point them to get current information on the Blue? For > example, what image should they be running?