Thanks for all the information, guys. I think the answers are:

1. yes, some soldering is involved. Guess I'll get on Amazon later today
2. the name for the piece(s) I need is "pin headers." I'll be getting some 
of these as well.

Maybe this kind of thing is obvious to everyone but me, but...I wish that 
Dr. Molloy had been a little more explicit and thorough when specifying the 
parts needed to perform the exercises in his book. I live in an area where 
I can't just run out and buy these components, so this business of 
incrementally discovering what I need, and ordering it, is time consuming 
and costs a lot in shipping. Anyway...not your problem.

Thanks again.

On Monday, February 27, 2017 at 12:24:07 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Andrew Kirch <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I'm going to make a couple assumptions here and hope I'm not going in the 
>> wrong direction.
>> assuming you have a breadboard, solder some male pins on the arduino pro 
>> mini and stick it on a breadboard across the middle "valley" so that the 
>> pins are on either side.
>> connect the beaglebone 3.3v to the Arduino VIN pin on the breadboard
>> connect the beaglebone ground to the Arduino ground on the breadboard
>> connect the beaglebone serial rxd to the arduino txd on the breadboard
>> connect the beaglebone serial txd to the arduino rxd on the breadboard
>>
>> You should then be able to communicate with the Arduino on /dev/ttyO4, I 
>> can't recall which offhand.
>>
>
> /dev/ttyO4 would require an overlay to be loaded, as would any of the 
> UART's. The only UART that is normally loaded at system up is /dev/ttyO0, 
> which is the serial debug port.
>

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