* Adafruit ultrasonic range finder and BeagleBone prototyping kit with solderless breadboard.
* BeagleBoard-xM and BeagleBone ULCD7 displays from BeagleBoardToys.com.
* Updated XBMC.
* Towertech TT3201 CAN bus cape.
* Other BeagleBoardToys.com capes.
I got a couple boxes of rev A2 boards from CircuitCo. This shows the box the boards are likely to arrive in and that the box contains:
* board
* microSD card
* microSD card to SD adapter
* USB cable
The production version will be A3. These A2 boards have throughput issues on the Ethernet.
Without any instructions, we find a way to connect the battery, flip the switch and start discovering what this robot sent from Taiwan does. It lives! Following this, we hacked the Android-based bot a bit and figured out a bit of how it works -- and still managed to put it back together so that it worked the same as before.
See http://www.beagleboa rd.tw for more information.
Discussion of the C6Run tool for building DSP code in a GPP+DSP system using a manner more similar to that of building code for the GPP and the DSP-RPC-POSIX Google Summer of Code project sponsored by BeagleBoard.org.
Quick description of the BeagleBoard-xM and mention of the June 7 planned date to open orders and hold hands-on classes at the ESC Chicago BYOES sessions.
As an introduction to the November 17th, 2009, TI eTech Day Community Lightning Talks, I've recorded a video to describe how to participate. I hope that you'll join the event. For more information, visit the wiki page at the following URL:
http://tinyurl.co m/etechlightning
The Zippy Board adds Ethernet, another MMC/SD card, another serial port, level shifting for I2C, and several other nice features to the BeagleBoard. Rusty Herod of TinCanTools introduces the board at the August 27th, 2009, TI eTech Day Community Lightning Talks.
http://wiki.omap. com/index.php/ETechD ays_Community_Lightn ing_Talks
PicoFlamingo presentation a the TI eTech Day event on August 27th, 2009.
http://wiki.omap. com/index.php/ETechD ays_Community_Lightn ing_Talks#August_27t h_2009_Event
