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.