Beaglebone with Accelerometer and Gyro

Beaglebone and I2C sensor.

The micro controller board below is called a Beaglebone. It has a very powerful arm chip running at 700Mhz. It is similar to the Raspberry Pi. The Stellaris launchpad is just 16Mhz (I think). Anyway in this small project a $6 i2c gyro and accelerometer was hooked up. The full blown SYS/BIOS was used. Linux could have been used, but the main issue there was the code size. The code size is important as it takes forever (~5 minutes) to download something the size of Linux with the slow built in jtag debugger.

SYS/BIOS is not officially supported on the Beaglebone. However, it was made to work using TI's own industrial SDK.

The output of the sensor makes its way through the Beaglebone, through a (usb) comm port to my PC to be displayed in a simple app written in C# in real time. Louka had a lot of fun hitting the table and making the graph bounce.