Progress Report Week 3: 29 April - 3 May

What was done: 1. Local Data Logging with Micro SD Card in BeagleBone 2. Update Beaglebone Image to Latest(Angstrom 2012-2013) & Familiarising with the Updated Version. 3. Local Data Logging with Updated Beaglebone To do's: 1. Getting Beaglebone to serial transmit via UART_RT and UART_RX 2. Programming of LCD to interface with Beaglebone 3. Draw telemetry diagram 4. Obtain sensors and circuitry + simulate telemetry system

1. Local Data Logging with Micro SD Card in Beaglebone

Figure 1.0 Program for Local Data Logging written in Cloud9 IDE Node.js The program allows the storing of all values read in from the analog pins in the Beaglebone. The readings will be written to a text file stored within Cloud9 IDE, and it's called array2.txt for this program.

2. Update Beaglebone Image to Latest(2012-2013) & Familiarising with the Updated Version
We were required to update the Beaglebone to a later version(2012-2013). There are many changes in the programming, but it's still somewhat similar to the previous version. Previously, the Beaglebone has to be ejected to connect via Ethernet. However, with the updated version, the Beaglebone need not be ejected to connect via Ethernet.

Figure 2.0 Tutorial and Guides for the Updated Beaglebone. The silver lining in updating to the later version is that there are guided tutorials to getting around with the updated Beaglebone. Figure 2.0 shows the page with the tutorials and guides. The page can be accessed by typing in the IP Address of your beaglebone.

3. Local Data Logging with Updated Beaglebone

Changes had to be made to the previous Local Data Logging program now that the Beaglebone has been updated.

Figure 3.0 New Program for Data Logging with Updated Version of Beaglebone

Figure 3.1 Results Written to Importable.txt The results in the text file can be copy and pasted to another text file, before saving as a .csv file.

Figure 3.0 Importing as a .csv File