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At a Glance
Expert’s Rating
Cons
- Difficulty can be prohibitive to enjoyment at times
Our Verdict
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!—A Reckless Disregard for Gravity is a bizarre first person journey into science-fiction dystopic base jumping. Available through OnLive’s service, you play as a base jumper in a futuristic Boston where buildings free float in the sky. Each mission tasks you with jumping to a specified landing zone while avoiding obstacles, spraying graffiti, saluting (or taunting) spectators, and smashing through plates of glass worth varying amounts of points. The more buildings you “kiss” or “hug” by getting close to, the more points you get. While Aaa… may seem like a weird name for a game, but that’s also the word you’ll most often yell as you plummet by floating skyscrapers and dodge walkways, often unsuccessfully.
The game is remarkably challenging, despite its simple level design and conceit. It’s not just about surviving your jumps, it’s about doing so in style and getting the most points. You earn the most points by essentially putting yourself in the most danger and getting closest to the obstacles you need to avoid to survive. In addition to weaving in between the vast vertical cityscapes, you need to pay attention to special buildings you can graffiti, spectators you can interact with (for huge points) or plates of glass to smash (again, for huge points). You need to keep all of these factors in mind while plummeting to the ground very, very fast.
Later, you’ll be able to unlock a triple espresso that will slow down time temporarily so you can execute more difficult moves and maneuver your body out of harms way. Even with this temporary boost and the ability to pull your parachute early, you’ll still see lots of gameover screens telling you’ve broken both your legs, ten of your fingers, or snapped your pelvis “in twain.” It’s all very funny at first, but since you die so often, the ambulance-like siren and mocking of your fate can get old quickly. The fact that you only have a meter on the side and your own first person perspective to see how close you are to buildings (instead of say a third person view) means you’ll often clip buildings and die when you thought you had avoided them entirely.
The mission menu is presented as a rotating orb with numerous cubes that you can unlock by spending “teeth,” the game’s strange currency you earn from jumping. You must unlock a cube adjacent to one you’ve already unlocked, so the game doesn’t have a linear progression, but the missions do get more difficult. You can replay missions you’ve already completed to get better star ratings and earn more teeth.
Some of the cubes give you “hints” which are actually just factoids about base jumping, many of them are completely fictional but help explain the bizarre culture of the game. Other cubes warp you to “meditation” sequences that are either funny or disturbing, depending on your perspective. While viewing the menu, you’ll often hear a monotone radio host give you hilarious news updates: A building dropped 200 meters and spilt a lot of popcorn. Please stop spitting on my car. Remember to spay and neuter your whales.
The world of Aaa… is reminiscent of a cross between the dystopic society of Razor’s Edge and the impish anarchism of Jet Grind Radio with the neon-infused permanent-night feeling of Blade Runner thrown in for good measure. In this far future society, “jumpers” are rebels, attracting both fans and protesters. The government is also against your activities so while you’re (illegally) jumping off buildings, you can spray graffiti on government towers, give the thumbs up to fans and flip-off protestors.
Of the games I’ve played through OnLive, Aaa… seems to suffer the least from the resolution drop. It’s an indie game and while the world is bright and fun to play in, the graphics weren’t cutting edge enough to begin with.
Macworld’s buying advice
There’s a good reason that Aaa… got so much press at the Game Developer Conference this year. It’s a fun, unique journey through a bizarre and often hilarious world. The developers often reckless regard for chronology, storytelling, and good taste can lead to some genuinely funny moments. It’s not only fun to jump into this world, but you wish you could walk around in it for a bit too. While the difficulty can be prohibitive to enjoyment at times, when you successful execute a series of death-defying “kisses” and “hugs” and land-safely—it’s an extremely satisfying experience.
[Chris Holt is a Macworld associate editor.]
editSeeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway is a low cost, open-source, community supported development platform for developers and hobbyists. It is a joint effort by BeagleBoard.org and Seeed Studio. It is based on the classical open-source hardware design of BeagleBone® Black and developed into this differentiated version. The Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway includes two Grove connectors, making it easier to connect to the large family of Grove sensors. The on-board HDMI and Ethernet are removed to make room for these wireless features and Grove connectors.
The Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway is a combination of Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green and Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Wireless, equipped with both Ethernet and Wireless connectivity.
Boot Linux in less 10 seconds and get started on development in less than 5 minutes with just a single USB cable.
Features¶
- Fully Compatible with BeagleBone® Black and Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green
Processor: AM3358 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8
- 2×32-bit 200-MHz programmable real-time units (PRUs)
- 512MB DDR3 RAM
- 4KB EEPROM
- 4GB 8-bit eMMC on-board flash storage
- 3D graphics accelerator
- NEON floating-point accelerator
Connectivity
- Ethernet 10/100M bit
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz
- USB client for power & communications
- USB host
- SD/MMC Connector for microSD
- Bluetooth 4.1 with BLE
- 2x 46 pin headers
- 2x Grove connectors (I2C and UART)
- DC Jack for power, 12V
- Software Compatibility
- Debian
- Android
- Ubuntu
- Cloud9 IDE on Node.js w/ BoneScript library
- plus much more
Specification¶
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Processor | AM3358 1GHz ARMR Cortex-A8 |
| RAM | 512MB DDR3 |
| on-board Flash Storage | 4GB eMMC |
| CPU Supports | NEON floating-point & 3D graphics accelerator |
| Micro USB Supports | Powering & Communications |
| USB | USB 2.0 Host x2 |
| GPIO | 2 x 46 pin headers |
| Ethernet | 1 |
| Wireless Connectivity | Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz and Bluetooth 4.1 LE |
| Grove Connectors | Grove I2C x 1 and Grove UART x 1 |
| Operating Temperature | 0 ~ 70 |
| Buttons | 3 |
Application Ideas¶
- Internet of Things
- Smart House
- Industrial
- Automation & Process Control
- Human Machine Interface
- Sensor Hub
- Robot
Community Projects¶
As SeeedStudio BeagleBone® Green Gateway is the combination of SeeedStudio BeagleBone® Green and SeeedStudio BeagleBone® Green Wireless, most of their projects can be easily modifed to work with SeeedStudio BeagleBone® Green Gateway!
Here are some tutorials from the communities using the Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Wireless for their projects, feel free to get inspired and use Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway instead!
| #1 The Breath LED | #2 Storm on your table | #3 Speak Louuuuuudly |
|---|---|---|
| MAKE IT NOW! | MAKE IT NOW! | MAKE IT NOW! |
| #4 How hot is it today? | #5 Where are you? | #6 My Little alarm clock |
|---|---|---|
| MAKE IT NOW! | MAKE IT NOW! | MAKE IT NOW! |
Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Wireless Irrigation Control: Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Wireless Irrigation Control using HTML5, WebSockets, and Ecmascript 6.
Other Projects¶
| Bluetooth Device Detection | Home Control Center | SAP HCP IoT Service |
|---|---|---|
| MAKE IT NOW! | MAKE IT NOW! | MAKE IT NOW! |
Hardware Overview¶
Dimensions¶
The Dimensions for Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway is:
- 89.0mm x 54.6mm x 19.6mm
Pin Map¶
Each digital I/O pin has 8 different modes that can be selected, including GPIO.
65 Possible Digital I/Os¶
Note
In GPIO mode, each digital I/O can produce interrupts.
PWMs and Timers¶
Note
Up to 8 digital I/O pins can be configured with pulse-width modulators (PWM) to produce signals to control motors or create pseudo analog voltage levels, without taking up any extra CPU cycles.
Analog Inputs¶
Note
Make sure you don't input more than 1.8V to the analog input pins. This is a single 12-bit analog-to-digital converter with 8 channels, 7 of which are made available on the headers.
UART¶
Note
There is a dedicated header for getting to the UART0 pins and connecting a debug cable. Five additional serial ports are brought to the expansion headers, but one of them only has a single direction brought to the headers.
I2C¶
Note
The first I2C bus is utilized for reading EEPROMS on cape add-on boards and can't be used for other digital I/O operations without interfering with that function, but you can still use it to add other I2C devices at available addresses. The second I2C bus is available for you to configure and use.
SPI¶
Note
For shifting out data fast, you might consider using one of the SPI ports.
Getting Started¶
STEP1. Plug in your Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green via USB
Use the provided micro USB cable to plug your Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green into your computer. This will both power the board and provide a development interface. Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green will boot Linux from the on-board 2GB or 4GB eMMC.
Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green will operate as a flash drive providing you with a local copy of the documentation and drivers. Note that this interface may not be used to re-configure the microSD card with a new image, but may be used to update the boot parameters using the uEnv.txt file.
You'll see the PWR LED lit steadily. Within 10 seconds, you should see the other LEDs blinking in their default configurations.
- D2 is configured at boot to blink in a heartbeat pattern
- D3 is configured at boot to light during microSD card accesses
- D4 is configured at boot to light during CPU activity
- D5 is configured at boot to light during eMMC accesses
STEP2. Install Drivers
Install the drivers for your operating system to give you network-over-USB access to your Beagle. Additional drivers give you serial access to your board.
| Operating System | USB Drivers | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Windows (64-bit) | 64-bit installer | |
| Windows (32-bit) | 32-bit installer | |
| Mac OS X | Install both sets of drivers. | |
| Linux | mkudevrule.sh | Driver installation isn't required, but you might find a few udev rules helpful. |
Note
For window system, please note that:
- Windows Driver Certification warning may pop up two or three times. Click 'Ignore', 'Install' or 'Run'
- To check if you're running 32 or 64-bit Windows see this.
- On systems without the latest service release, you may get an error (0xc000007b). In that case, please install and retry:
- You may need to reboot Windows.
- These drivers have been tested to work up to Windows 10
STEP3. Browse to your Beagle
Using either Chrome or Firefox (Internet Explorer will NOT work), browse to the web server running on your board. It will load a presentation showing you the capabilities of the board. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate the presentation.
Click http://192.168.7.2 to launch to your Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green.
Older software images require you to EJECT the BeagleBone® drive to start the network. With the latest software image, that step is no longer required.
STEP4. Cloud9 IDE
To begin editing programs that live on your board, you can use the Cloud9 IDE by clicking:
STEP5. Connecting to Wi-Fi
You can use connmanctl to connect to nearby Wi-Fi:
STEP6. Connecting to Bluetooth
To connect to the nearby bluetooth, you will need to install BlueZ:
And run the following commands to connect to nearby Bluetooth:
Once within the bluetoothctl interface, run scan on to list all nearby Bluetooth:
Copy the device MAC address, then connect to the device with the following command:
Now your Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway is connected to your bluetooth device. Type quit back to the terminal. Play music on Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway, then you will hear music on your bluetooth speaker device.
Update to the Latest Software¶
You need to update the board to latest software to keep a better performance, here we will show you how to make it step by step.
STEP1. Download the latest software image
First of all, you have to download the suitable image here.
Note
Neon Jumper (akeemkaleeb) Mac Os Catalina
Due to sizing necessities, this download may take about 30 minutes or more.
The file you download will have an .img.xz extension. This is a compressed sector-by-sector image of the SD card.
STEP2. Install the Image Burner
Download the Open Source Flash burner balenaEtcher. Download the version according to your operating system(Windows/macOS/Linux).
STEP3. Writing the OS Image into SD Card
Select the downloaded image, select the MicroSD card and Flash!
STEP4. Boot your board off of the SD card
Insert SD card into your (powered-down first) board. Then the board will boot from the SD card.
Note
If you don't need to write the image to your on-board eMMC, you don't need to read the last of this chapter. Otherwise please go ahead.
If you desire to write the image to your on-board eMMC, you need to launch to the board, and modify a file.
In /boot/uEnv.txt:
Change to:
Then you will find the user leds light as below
Note
If you don't find the upper tracing light, please press the RESET button to reset the board.
When the flashing is complete, all 4 USRx LEDs will be off. The latest Debian flasher images automatically power down the board upon completion. This can take up to 10 minutes. Power-down your board, remove the SD card and apply power again to be complete.
Grove for Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway¶
Grove is a modular, standardized connecter prototyping system. Grove takes a building block approach to assembling electronics. Compared to the jumper or solder based system, it is easier to connect, experiment and build and simplifies the learning system, but not to the point where it becomes dumbed down. Some of the other prototype systems out there takes the level down to building blocks. Good stuff to be learned that way, but the Grove system allows you to build real systems. It requires some learning and expertise to hook things up.
Below listed the Grove modules that work well with Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway.
| SKU | Name | Interface | link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101020054 | Grove - 3-Axis Digital Accelerometer(+16g) | I2C | link |
| 101020071 | Grove - 3-Axis Digital Accelerometer(+400g) | I2C | link |
| 101020034 | Grove - 3-Axis Digital Compass | I2C | link |
| 101020050 | Grove - 3-Axis Digital Gyro | Analog | link |
| 101020081 | Grove - 6-Axis Accelerometer&Compass v2.0 | I2C | link |
| 101020072 | Grove - Barometer Sensor(BMP180) | I2C | link |
| 104030010 | Grove - Blue LED | I/O | link |
| 101020003 | Grove - Button | I/O | link |
| 111020000 | Grove - Button(P) | I/O | link |
| 107020000 | Grove - Buzzer | I/O | link |
| 104030006 | Grove - Chainable RGB LED | I2C | link |
| 101020030 | Grove - Digital Light Sensor | I2C | link |
| 103020024 | Grove - Finger-clip Heart Rate Sensor | I2C | link |
| 101020082 | Grove - Finger-clip Heart Rate Sensor with shell | I2C | link |
| 113020003 | Grove - GPS | UART | link |
| 104030007 | Grove - Green LED | I/O | link |
| 103020013 | Grove - I2C ADC | I2C | link |
| 103020006 | Grove - I2C Hub | I2C | link |
| 101020079 | Grove - IMU 10DOF | I2C | link |
| 101020080 | Grove - IMU 9DOF v2.0 | I2C | link |
| 101020040 | Grove - IR Distance Interrupter | I/O | link |
| 104030011 | Grove - OLED Display 0.96' | I2C | link |
| 104030008 | Grove - OLED Display 1.12' | I2C | link |
| 104030005 | Grove - Red LED | I/O | link |
| 103020005 | Grove - Relay | I/O | link |
| 316010005 | Grove - Servo | I/O | link |
| 101020023 | Grove - Sound Sensor | Analog | link |
| 101020004 | Grove - Switch(P) | I/O | link |
| 101020015 | Grove - Temperature Sensor | Analog | link |
| 101020019 | Grove - Temperature&Humidity Sensor Pro | Analog | link |
Cape for Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway¶
You will need some expansion board when you start a project. There're many cape for Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway already, they include LCD display, motor driver as well as HDMI expansion etc. Below is some of them recommend.
| Grove Cape | Motor Bridge Cape | HDMI Cape |
|---|---|---|
| GET ONE NOW! | GET ONE NOW! | GET ONE NOW! |
| Grove Cape | 5 Inch LCD | 7 Inch LCD |
|---|---|---|
| GET ONE NOW! | GET ONE NOW! | GET ONE NOW! |
FAQ¶
- 2 x 46 Pin headers and 2x Grove connectors are the same as Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green and Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Wireless, with the same considerations, as followed:
- Maximum input voltage for AD analog interface is 1.8V.
- Please do not input more than 3.3V, otherwise it may damage the CPU.
- The external I2C RTC battery power connector can only be connected to a 3V button battery, the voltage must not exceed 5V.
References¶
There're many references to help you to get more information about the board.
Resources¶
[PDF]Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway Schematic
[ZIP]Seeed Studio BeagleBone® Green Gateway Schematic
[Zip]AM335X Datasheet
Tech Support¶
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