Newest Acquisition: Beaglebone Black Kit
Last week I ordered a Beaglebone black with a power supply, basic transparent case, a HDMI-D to HDMI-A adapter and a USB WiFi adapter. To complete the kit, I needed to use a usb-hub and keyboard-mouse. Plus I used the existing Samsung monitor with HDMI cable. I could not find my original USB-A Hub, so ended up using USB-C hub that I had bought for wife. Luckily I found a USB-A to USB-C adapter as well. Finally the case won't fit the HDMI adapter properly, so I adjusted the adapter clearance by scraping off some plastic and then it fit perfectly. I also needed to dig out my DLink router to connect the board via Ethernet. Trying to configure the router was a bit of a pain. But a reset and some finagling in the router settings quickly had it running as repeater to existing Tata Fiber router. That sorted finally the Beagle bone black was online. The Beaglebone black has following specs: Texas Instruments Sitara AM3358 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 SGX 3D Graphics Engine NEON floating-point a