Re: [PS1] BeagleBone Black hackerspace contest

[Drew Fustini]

The BeagleBone Black is only $45 :)  And, yup, you can run the Arduino IDE on it and upload sketches to an Arduino connected to its USB-host port (or even via serial port if configured properly).  There is also a project to run a version of the Arduino IDE that will run the sketches on the BeagleBone itself (no separate Arduino needed).

There is a Javascript library called BoneScript which lets on control the Bone's hardware easily:

http://beagleboard.org/static/bonescript/bone101/#(8)

It can also use Processing.js for graphics like this oscilloscope demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qME7_Eza54

The topic of using it for other test equipment like a logic analyzer came up on element14: http://www.element14.com/community/message/78332

Interesting idea with the rubber bands, if you'd, please join the google group for the team: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/ps1bbb

thanks,

drew

On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Jesse Seay <jess...@gmail.com> wrote:

This may not be that relevant to the competition itself but...

I'm wondering if Beaglebone could be used to build (cheaply) resources that would be super useful (if they were super cheap, less than $100) in a classroom setting.
For instance-- could you program and upload code to an arduino with it? (so no laptop required)
could you build an oscilloscope witih it?

Also... in terms of running motors with it and creating something with "whimsy"... Some of you saw my Red Rubber Bands kinetic sculpture at PS1's Birthday. I'm wondering if Beaglebone could monitor rubberbands of different sizes and adjust individual motors' speeds to create/maintain certain physical effects (like the floating lassos).

If you're looking for an art project to apply motor control to, I'm certain I could provide you with a few (hundred) other ideas.

: )

On Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:14:34 PM UTC-5, Ste Kulov wrote:

Oh yeah.  On a side note, why does everyone spell HADOKEN wrong?

On Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:33:00 PM UTC-5, Drew Fustini wrote:

FYI - I setup a mailing list for our BBB challenge team:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!managemembers/ps1bbb/members/active

anyone who's interested please join

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[Jesse Seay]

Sounds awesome!

To be more specific... When I show my students Arduino, most students are able to bring a laptop to class, but there's always a few who can't. It'd be great to have a "computer" that they can do their own programming on, instead of sharing a classmate's computer. And if it's under $100, even better.

Do you just need a monitor, a keyboard, and the right cables? And... how long does it take to build this stuff? Ideally I'd like to just download existing code, plug in a few things, and have it work. I mean, I'd like to learn Beagle Bone too (and about a milion other things), but for this application, I'm looking for quick turnaround.

For the oscilloscope, I'd like for students to be able to measure signal running in a circuit (<12VDC). I've thought about looking into cellphone scope apps they could download, but I don't want to mess with someone frying their phone.

The point of these items is not for them to learn BeagleBone but to use it as a blackbox tool. So the user interface has to be simple and solid.

Also... Should I consider RaspPi for these tools?

drew

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