My daughter and I created our first robot using the BeagleBone Black as the controller. My blog posts below document how we built it:
I just got my Beaglebone Black, now what?
My first working robot, it's alive 1
My first working robot, it's alive 2
My first working robot, it's alive 3
This is an ongoing project, our next step is to build a different base and add some sensors so we can make the robot move around on it's own.
I started experimenting with programming the BeagleBone Black with Javascript/Bonescript:
We are starting to make the robot autonomous:
Prototyping an autonomous robot with Javascript
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/my-first-working-robot