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BeagleBone: Perl alternatives to Bonescript

So in a previous post I stated that I’m starting to lean towards the use of perl rather than bonescript for the development platform on the beaglebone. Don’t get me wrong bonescript is still a good thing – that I’m

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Beaglebone: Setting a static IP address.

[updated 2-8-2012]   In this guide I’m going to show a really simple way of setting a static IP address for the eth0 interface. I’ll be using the default Connman daemon that comes standard on the BeagleBone as well as

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Beaglebone: Install perl

Perl if a very solid programming language that’s been around for a long time. Highly flexible, very easy to find documentation and examples and it’s free! Beaglebone ships with a version that just doesn’t quite cut it out of the

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Project Preview: BMS Controller Programming Interface

So in the last preview I explained mostly about what the controller is going to be, this is an example of how the software is going to work. Please bare in mind this is a crude preliminary preview only. Check

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Project Preview: BMS Controller.

So this is a preview of one of our projects, a open source control platform aimed at Air Conditioning Controls for large commercial applications. These controllers will be able to communicate to each other to form a complete building management

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Beagle Bone: Bonescript Vs Perl Vs Python.

In a previous post I claimed that perl was much faster than python and bonescript at the classic led hello world blink test. I made this claim based on how fast the LED looked like it was blinking, but I

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Impulse Github

Nothing to see here yet but here it is anyway: ImpulseAir PLC project on Github

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Ninja Blocks !

Wow, I just found a similar project to the one I’m working on now. They call it ninja blocks, using a beaglebone and an Arduino to create a simple “if then” approach to a ‘internet of things’ control. Programming via

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Beagle Bone – Perl GPIO!

Hey Everyone. I’ve been working on using Perl to blink some LED’s. Ive seen alot on python scripting, bonescript, etc. but not alot of perl. So why perl? Well basically i’ve found that perl has less time lag, especially when

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BeagleBone Update and Save!

Once again I’ve been shown empirically why its always a good idea to backup all of your work. So here is a very recommended, short guide to updating your Ångström dist. This time round we’re going to use opkg to update package sources,

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