[beagleboard] Maximum Voltage for Beaglebone Black

2014-03-28 Thread Andrew Dai
Hi all, What is the maximum recommended voltage for the BBB? I've seen the minimum is 4.1v but I haven't seen any mention of a maximum. I have a 6 volt (4xAA batteries) battery pack and I want to wire that to a barrel jack connector to power the BBB. I think right now the voltage is ~5.7v. Is

[beagleboard] Re: PWM on more than 4 pins?

2014-03-03 Thread Andrew Dai
Which pins are you using? P9_14 P9_22 P8_12 and P8_14 work just fine for me On Sunday, March 2, 2014 2:24:31 PM UTC-5, ghostma...@gmail.com wrote: very time I try to use certain PWM pins on the BeagleBone Black I get this error for most of the pins (from the ones shown in yellow here:

Re: [beagleboard] Re: PWM on more than 4 pins?

2014-03-03 Thread Andrew Dai
Woops sorry, my mistake. I have PWM on P9_14 and P9_22 On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Andrew Dai the...@andrewdai.co wrote: Which pins are you using? P9_14 P9_22 P8_12 and P8_14 work just fine for me On Sunday, March 2, 2014 2:24:31 PM UTC-5, ghostma...@gmail.com wrote: very time I

Re: [beagleboard] Re: joydev in Ubuntu kernel 3.8.x

2014-03-03 Thread Andrew Dai
kernel version do you have? uname -r Could you show me this file /proc/config.gz? I just want to confirm it. воскресенье, 2 марта 2014 г., 7:20:06 UTC+4 пользователь Andrew Dai написал: I don't know if this will help but I got my xbox 360 wired controller to work with the BBB (and even ROS

[beagleboard] Re: Power Supply

2014-03-02 Thread Andrew Dai
I might be wrong but I think you should use the USB port for peripherals ... get a (powered) USB hub for keyboard/mouse On Saturday, March 1, 2014 2:53:57 PM UTC-5, Ryan Clark wrote: Hello everybody! I recently purchased a beaglebone black, and I got everything. Including a power supply, It

[beagleboard] Re: joydev in Ubuntu kernel 3.8.x

2014-03-01 Thread Andrew Dai
I don't know if this will help but I got my xbox 360 wired controller to work with the BBB (and even ROS Hydro) running Ubuntu 13.04 http://andrewdai.co/xbox-controller-ros.html What OS version are you on? On Saturday, March 1, 2014 1:58:01 AM UTC-5, Biriuk Ivan wrote: Hi, everyone! I try

Re: [beagleboard] Missing packages in Ubuntu 13.04 on BeagleBone Black

2014-02-06 Thread Andrew Dai
I sure hope thats the case... otherwise I blame it on voodoo magic... On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Rick jetfo...@gmail.com wrote: That's great news. I wonder if a package(s) has been updated. On Feb 6, 2014, at 19:04 , Andrew Dai the...@andrewdai.co wrote: I just tried installing

Re: [beagleboard] Missing packages in Ubuntu 13.04 on BeagleBone Black

2014-02-06 Thread Andrew Dai
at 9:39 PM, Rick jetfo...@gmail.com wrote: Good luck! It would be awesome. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 14, 2014, at 18:14, Andrew Dai the...@andrewdai.co wrote: Well crap... I'll look into it more deeply this weekend... no promises On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Rick jetfo

Re: [beagleboard] Missing packages in Ubuntu 13.04 on BeagleBone Black

2014-01-14 Thread Andrew Dai
Have you had any luck installing ROS on 13.04? I flashed Ubuntu 13.04 to my BBB and had trouble installing ROS (I think it stopped at the same roslisp dependency) Do you know how to fix that? Would switching to Debian be of any use or do I have to build ROS from source/how do I do that? On

Re: [beagleboard] Missing packages in Ubuntu 13.04 on BeagleBone Black

2014-01-14 Thread Andrew Dai
, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Rick jetfo...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, no luck, got discouraged and haven't tried. On Jan 14, 2014, at 17:35 , Andrew Dai the...@andrewdai.co wrote: Have you had any luck installing ROS on 13.04? I flashed Ubuntu 13.04 to my BBB and had trouble installing ROS (I think

Re: [beagleboard] Missing packages in Ubuntu 13.04 on BeagleBone Black

2014-01-14 Thread Andrew Dai
Well crap... I'll look into it more deeply this weekend... no promises On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Rick jetfo...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. I've barely gotten to where I can install autoconf-based stuff. ROS is stupidly complicated. On Jan 14, 2014, at 17:50 , Andrew Dai

[beagleboard] Re: Should I bitbang i2c ?

2013-12-30 Thread Andrew Dai
I am eagerly awaiting your link :) On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 1:10:17 AM UTC-4, Christopher Hopwood wrote: I stopped trying to utilize the i2c modules and just bitbanged it myself. If you need i2c bitbanging on the PRU, I can drop the link to the git for it tomorrow. -- For more

Re: [beagleboard] Re: I2C and Invensense MPU6050 Driver

2013-12-28 Thread Andrew Dai
work just fine at this speed. Clark On Thursday, December 26, 2013 8:25:03 PM UTC-8, Andrew Dai wrote: Setting the SLEEP bit seemed to have done the trick, everything seems to work now! (or at least at the surface) I apologize for any beginner questions (this is my first trip

Re: [beagleboard] Re: I2C and Invensense MPU6050 Driver

2013-12-26 Thread Andrew Dai
to work. It still looks like no one replying to the posts here has either. The disadvantage of the file I/O access approach is that it seems very slow compared to the relatively few I2C bus cycles required. Clark On Sunday, December 22, 2013 8:45:23 AM UTC-8, Andrew Dai wrote: So has anyone