On 10/18/17 2:09 PM, Adrian Godwin wrote:
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Gary E. Miller <g...@rellim.com> wrote:
Yo Hal!
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:26:27 -0700
Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote:
For getting started, you also need:
SD card reader/writer
keyboard and mouse (Pi has USB)
display adapter (Pi is HDMI)
display
Yeah, just for setup. Shall we include the price of the desk it sits
and the building it is in?
You can set a Pi up headless from scratch by putting an empty file called
'ssh' in the boot directory of the raspbian SD card. It then enables the
ssh daemon on startup.
This is one of the reasons I use beaglebone greens - soldered in eMMC so
no need for SD card, no HDMI interface - the expectation is that you're
using it headless/serial console style. And the eMMC is preloaded with
Debian Jessie (or perhaps something newer)
The only ugly thing is the USB Gadget interface, which works fine, but
always seems a bit weird - The USB serves triple duty - disk access to
part of the file system, IP network interface, serial console port.
So on a Mac, you can mount it as a disk, ssh or "screen" to it via
either ip or the /dev/cu.usbmodem
There's also a standard ethernet interface. Which by default comes up
using DHCP and zeroconf, so you can plug it in to your network at home,
and then look for it with "ping beaglebone.local".
And the beaglebone has lots of GPIO.
Of course, then you need another computer to talk to it with ..
Unless you're a real hardcore embedded person, in which case you just
make and break a connection between two wires on the TxD line to send
ascii, and you use the blinks of an LED or the intermittent tingle on
your tongue from the RxD to decode it.
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