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3D printing Beaglebone Housing

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Post category:Mechatronics Class Project

I'm nearing completion of a 3D printed solution for both a battery pack for Beaglebone and a housing that also contains header and sensor packs. I have a PWM and…

3D printing with Polycarbonate

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I'm going to accumulate my experiences with printing with polycarbonate here. I have a Flashforge Inventor dual nozzle printer. I'm using Simplify3D as my slicer. I have recently purchased Gizmodorks…

Moving over to Freecad

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Post category:Computer Aided Design Exploration

I have used a number of CAD programs over the years. I started with a T-square and drafting table. I located some of my professional drawings a while ago. At…

Wifi can be droppy

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Post category:Robotics

Create a file, wifi_reconnect.sh and make it executable “chmod a+x wifi_reconnect.sh”. This file should contain the following code: d=$(date +%H%M%S) if [ $(connmanctl state | grep -c "online") = 0…

Remote root access

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Post category:Robotics

Connect the beaglebone to a monitor and keyboard. Boot up. In the earlier versions of the kernel, the system booted into X (the gui), and you were logged in as…

Updating to the latest debian

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Post category:Robotics

Steps to install debian: a. Download the latest image onto the host computer (https://beagleboard.org/latest-images). b. Unpack the file. On osx, you will need to get “The Unarchiver” from the app store. c.…