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Welcome to the NTNU-Biped-Robot wiki! This wiki is the main source of documentation for developers working with or contributing to the Biped-Robot project at NTNU. On this particular page you can find detailed information regarding Beaglebone Black, its specifications and hardware. Our goal is to create a page which contains information relevant for the project. Information presented will be of great help to all participants contributing to the work on Biped-Robot, regardless of the difficulty lever one decides to embark on. This page's content is selectively chosen from thousands of pages of information regarding Beaglebone Black, in order to make most important aspects of it easily reachable and much quicker to find. 
Beaglebone Black is low cost open source development platform for hobbyists. In simple term it can be said that it is a small board integrated computer used for educational purposes around the world. Created by an engineers at Texas instruments its main purpose is to teach individuals in open source software and hardware capabilities. With its small size, computing strength and the fact that it is and open source, it can be noted that Beaglebone Black is the best platform one can use in order to try themselves out on serious programming projects and tasks.
It is perfect for utilization on advanced projects where we have to take advantage of Linux based operative system, combined with direct access I/O pinouts, allowing us to interact with low level electronic components. This platform is widely supported by a huge fan base which has insured that information about Beaglebone is broadly accessible. Anyone willing to master programming will find this fact strongly helpful, and is one of the reasons why it is so popular.
Beaglebone Black boards run Linux operating system. That in term means you can use many open-source software libraries and applications directly with them. Fact that Beagle boards are open-source systems allows us to gain access to variety of drivers. That is instrumental if we desire to utilize USB cameras, keyboards and other types of accessories.