[nycbug-talk] arm boards

[George Rosamond]

On 10/04/12 13:43, Steven Kreuzer wrote:
> On 9/24/12 8:46 PM, George Rosamond wrote:
>> On 09/21/12 18:21, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
>>> On 21/09/2012 23:13, George Rosamond wrote:
>>>> Raspberry PI is too much of an issue in acquiring.
>>> I ordered mine from http://www.farnell.com on Tuesday, it was here on
>>> Thursday.
>> The BeagleBoard www site says they will be at MakerFaire this weekend.
>> It certainly is a good chance to discuss some sort of group discount for
>> us, even if they don't sell them directly.
>>
>> What if we structure some sort of 3 hour long workshop?
>>
>> We could provide the useful documentation to enable the preliminary
>> work.  For FreeBSD, there's stuff out there.  People should prep their
>> SD cards at least.
> I made an image for the beaglebone with FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #4 that
> people can use to get started. All you need to do is write it to a 4GB
> micro SD card using dd
>
> It can be downloaded from
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24276515/FreeBSD-BEAGLEBONE.img.gz (checksum is
> 3dffc4371907b6b5e74314276ff83d9c)

Very cool.  Thanks SK.

I'm speaking to CircuitCo right now, as I mentioned last night, and am 
working out some sort of deal for BeagleBone boards.

If anyone is interested in getting one, we'll figure out how to poll 
NYCBUG people and get a count sooner than later.

g