{"id":8,"date":"2013-05-31T18:51:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2013-05-31T19:14:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T19:14:26","slug":"beaglebone-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/31\/beaglebone-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaglebone Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been running an Ubuntu server in a VM at home for some time. The host system is a older XPS laptop running Windows 7. I can&#8217;t speak to quality of other XPS systems, but this one has not held up very well. Its now on it&#8217;s 4th and final motherboard. I believe most of (all?) the problems have been related to the system overheating.<\/p>\n<p>The main thing I&#8217;ve been using this system for is to run a Hamachi VPN and a Squid proxy. Its a nice setup that allows me to browse the web and not have to worry about someone snooping in. However, its only a matter of time \u00a0before it dies again and a bit overkill.<\/p>\n<p>Sooo, in my quest to find a small low power standalone Linux server I came across the Beaglebone Black. Its a bit more expensive than the Raspberry PI but the specs (see for a side by side comparison: <a href=\"http:\/\/roboteurs.com\/beaglebone-black-vs-raspberry-pi\/\">http:\/\/roboteurs.com\/beaglebone-black-vs-raspberry-pi\/<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0are slightly better suited for what I want to use it for.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who cares I ordered it from\u00a0Adafruit. I&#8217;ve had good luck with them in the past and was able to order everything with no problems. Here is my parts and price list.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 x Miniature WiFi (802.11b\/g\/n) Module: For Raspberry Pi and more[ID:814] \u00a0=\u00a0$11.95<\/li>\n<li>1 x Adafruit\u00a0Bone\u00a0Box &#8211; Enclosure for\u00a0Beagle\u00a0Bone\/Beagle\u00a0Bone\u00a0Black[ID:699]\u00a0= $19.95<\/li>\n<li>1 x Micro HDMI to HDMI Cable &#8211; 2 meter[ID:1322] = $9.95<\/li>\n<li>1 x\u00a0BeagleBone\u00a0Black[ID:1278] = $45.00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My first task will be to replace the OS with Ubuntu and then get Hamachi working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been running an Ubuntu server in a VM at home for some time. The host system is a older XPS laptop running Windows 7. I can&#8217;t speak to quality of other XPS systems, but this one has not held &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/31\/beaglebone-black\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gencarelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}