This instructions are for setting up a BeagleBone Blue for use with the adafruit BNO055 IMU.
Grab a minimal image for AM335x from here: https://forum.beagleboard.org/t/debian-11-x-bullseye-monthly-snapshots/31280
Direct download link: https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2023-03-10/bullseye-minimal-armhf/am335x-debian-11.6-minimal-armhf-2023-03-10-2gb.img.xz
Instructions are here: https://beagleboard.org/getting-started
You can run the OS off of the SD card, but I'd recommend flashing the eMMC with the new OS
Add an entry to the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf file
It should look something like:
network={
ssid="your_network"
psk="your_password"
}
If you need any more advanced network configuration here's a resource: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wpa_supplicant#Configuration
Then reboot. Once the BeagleBone restarts and connects to your network, a green LED should light up on the board.
i2c-1, which is the bus that the I2C port is connected to, is not enabled by default.
Run the setup-i2c.sh script and reboot to enable it
A few of the necessary python libraries that we need don't work out of the box, so I forked them.
Adafruit_Blinka didn't support the beaglebone
blue out of the box, so I added minimal board support that essentially just provides i2c
access.
My pull request got merged, you can now use the upstream version.
Adafruit_BBIO couldn't compile on newer beaglebone images, but the fix mentioned in issue #362 seems to work.
You can install all the necessary components using the setup-python.sh script.