The Webyssey!

A friend of mine is trying to raise funds to turn his web comic into a fully fledged comic. I think he sums up the premise better than I ever will so I’ll just quote him here.

The Webyssey is a graphic novel about a man who wakes up to find himself trapped in the internet, beset on all sides by Spam-bots, Twitter birds, Grammar Nazis and Trolls.

You can find a rough draft of the first chapter here. If you like what you see you can pledge some money towards his goal by visiting his Kickstarter page here, and remember (to steal a particular supermarket’s catchphrase) every little helps!

BeagleBone Quick Start Guide on Mac OS X

I’ve just finished a quick start guide video for getting your BeagleBone up and running under OS X. Check it out.

Rough step by step:

  • Get your MicroSD card in your BeagleBone and connect up the USB cable and an Ethernet cable to the respective ports on the BeagleBone and your computer.
  • Install the FTDI USB Serial Drivers from the mounted drive.
  • Open Terminal
  • Type command ‘screen /dev/tty.usb*B 115200′
  • Press return again if you get presented with a blank Terminal.
  • Login with ‘root’, no password.
  • Now you’re in the linux distribution and could do whatever you want.
  • Kill the shell (because we don’t need to do anything) by pressing, CTRL + A + K, then type ‘y’ to confirm.
  • Eject the ‘BeagleBone’ mounted drive.
  • Ethernet gadget should fire and show a prompt screen.
  • Click on ‘Network Preferences’.
  • Press ‘Apply’, and should setup the interface and should display it as ‘connected’.
  • Open a browser, goto ’192.168.7.2′ – this presents you with the intro.
  • Goto ’192.168.7.2:3000′ (same as before but port 3000) should present you with the Cloud9 IDE.
  • Test by running one of the examples.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Aside

Just spent the evening getting my BeagleBone setup and running on OS X. I’ll be adding a post with some instructions and a video up soon.

BeagleBone Unboxing

This is the first unboxing video I’ve ever done, so I apologise for the lack of focus in places as I had to switch back and forth between normal and macro focus when I was doing closeups of the board. Overall I think it came out alright, I forgot to do a quick size comparison with an Arduino so I filmed that afterwards and I’ll get that up on youtube as well.

If you have any questions about the BeagleBone then just add a comment either on here or on youtube and I’ll get back to you. I should also have a quick start guide for the BeagleBone up on youtube at some point this week.

[Edit] Here is the link to the BeagleBone and Arduino size comparison video.

Status

Just revamped the site. Bear with me.