How to Connect BeagleBone Black Development Board to PC Using USB-to-TTL Serial Cable

Introduction

BeagleBone Black is an excellent board for starting your practice in embedded development. This will likely extend as an invitation into a long, but rewarding adventure.

BeagleBone Black is simple to configure, easy to use and gives you lots of possibilities for trying out. Along the way, it provides you with the much needed sense of progress.

Problem with starting over as a newbie in embedded world, there is an ocean filled with pieces of information available out there on the world wide web, but each and every piece of information is cryptic . I got myself in this position, as I am switching from C# and .NET.

Masters of embedded trade tend to forget that themselves were beginners at some moment, and they keep on pouring the jargon within most of the tutorials, as if you were knowing half of the question you already asked.

This is where my posts will try to help you. At some point we all are beginners in something, and we should not forget that knowledge builds up with patience and linearity.

I will help you figure out the much needed linearity to build knowledge in areas, where I had the same problems as a beginner.