[PLUG] Announcement: June PLUG Meeting: Hacking on the new Beagle Bone Black

[Michael Dexter]

Portland Linux/Unix Group Meeting Announcement

ALERT: I will not be here for the June AT event, might there be any FG 
keyholders who are interested in assisting and perhaps presenting?

Who: Russel Senior
What: Hacking on the new Beagle Bone Black
Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level)
When: Thursday, June 6th, 2013 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

See location H-10 on the PSU map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

Hacking on the new Beagle Bone Black

Russell recently spent some time working on porting a house-monitoring 
system from the Beagle Bone (an $89 embedded, ARM-based, I/O rich device 
running linux http://beagleboard.org/) to the new Beagle Bone Black, a 
$45 device which is faster, includes video and 2G of onboard flash. The 
sensors required a one-wire bus, one of which the original Beagle Bone 
had configured out of the box. The Beagle Bone Black had none. This talk 
is a description of what it took to get one-wire (specifically w1-gpio) 
going with his own custom "cape" (a daughter-board for the Beagle Bone).

Biography:

Russell Senior has been a GNU/Linux user for over 20 years, since the 
0.99plN days, using it both recreationally and professionally as a 
research programmer/scientific data analyst. Since 2005, Russell has 
become involved as a principal volunteer with the Personal Telco Project 
(https://personaltelco.net), during which he has worked on embedded 
systems, primarily network routers. He contributes to the development 
and improvement of the OpenWrt project. In the last couple years, he has 
worked on monitoring systems involving Arduino and, since last year, the 
Beagle Bone and has learned a bit about the Angstrom distribution of 
linux for embedded devices.


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Agenda:

7:00 - 7:30  Announcements
7:30 - 8:30  Presentation and Questions
9:00 - ...   Refreshments

The Lucky Lab Northwest Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby
Portland, Oregon

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Michael Dexter
PLUG Volunteer

See you there!