Machinechat: A Universal Sensor Hub

Brought to you by Digikey and Hackaday Prize: Develop a Universal Sensor Hub, with MachineChat's JEDI One and a Pocket Beagle.

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This workshop is about developing a Universal Sensor Hub, with MachineChat's JEDI One and a Pocket Beagle. Learn how to setup MachineChat and configure external WiFi sensors to communicate with the application. Participants will learn to develop an IoT application using the temp and humidity sensor on the Pocket Beagle. Learn to use MachineChat to easily connect sensor data to a cloud and visualize your data in real time. Participants will be able to send data to the cloud thru the development environment and visualize the data.

About the Instructor: Robert C Nelson (rcn-ee) is a Principal Applications Engineer with Digi-Key. He has been with Digi-Key since 2005 and assists customers with deploying ARM and Linux systems. He serves on the board of the BeagleBoard Foundation. He is responsible for maintaining the Linux on ARM section of the https://eewiki.net.

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Hardware:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/beagleboard-by-seeed-studio/110061161/12719589

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/seeed-technology-co-ltd/101020592/9697030

Software:

https://rcn-ee.net/workshops/hackaday_2021/bone-debian-11-hackaday-armhf-2021-09-30-4gb.img.xz

Image flasher: https://www.balena.io/etcher/

Windows Tera Term: https://ttssh2.osdn.jp/index.html.en

WSL for ssh access...

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Flash microSD

Using Balena Etcher: write image to microSD card:
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Insert microSD and WiFi Dongle into board

Insert microSD and WiFi Dongle into Board:
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Plug in micro USB Cable to provide power

Plug in micro USB Cable to provide power and get serial console access: