Connecting ROHM’s Sensor Platform Kit to the BeagleBone Black Platform
ROHM-SENSEKIT1-EVK-101-ND
12 January, 2015 – Revision A
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i.
“dmesg | grep FTDI”
c.
The message should return with the information in the picture below
i.
5.
Since this FTDI chip is essentially a COM port, we can easily view the data stream through the
console using “screen” application by typing the following command
a.
“screen /dev/ttyUSB0”
i.
*Note, please use whichever USB device returned from the above “dmesg |
grep FTDI” command instead of ttyUSB0
b.
If done correctly, a new console window will open showing the streaming data from the
device. See below for a picture
c.
