First little project with the Beaglebone
Posted in Arduino, Beaglebone on July 23rd, 2012 by x-firm – Comments OffI would like to connect an Arduino to the Beaglebone true its USB host port to let the Arduino do all low level stuff. I thought it could not be that hard and after some trying it turned out it wasn’t.
I loaded the example sketch ASCII table by Tom Igoe that prints out byte values in all possible formats true the serial port of the arduin. If i could get that to print out in the console or in some serial console for linux.
But first I did’nt know what the device file would be named for an usb to serial adapter on the Beagelbone. So I plugged in my Arduino and used the command dmesg | tail to see what happened.
root@beaglebone:~# dmesg | tail
[ 712.471055] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 64932343738351312182
[ 712.471901] cdc_acm 1-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[ 961.711404] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 963.279604] usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 6 using musb-hdrc
[ 963.420999] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2341, idProduct=0001
[ 963.421019] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=220
[ 963.421032] usb 1-1: Product: Arduino Uno
[ 963.421043] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Arduino (www.arduino.cc)
[ 963.421054] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 64932343738351312182
[ 963.421916] cdc_acm 1-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
root@beaglebone:~#
So now when I know that I need to communicate with it and I found out that there are an serial console program called minicom in the Ångström distribution that I use on my Beaglebone. It seamed easy to use so I started up minicom in setup mode by the following command
root@beaglebone:~# minicom -s