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

[Russell Senior]

   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: Russell 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.

Here are my slides, for what they're worth:

  http://www.aracnet.com/~seniorr/plug-talk-2013-06-06.pdf


-- 
Russell Senior, President
russell at personaltelco.net