Suppose you are developing an application on beaglebone black, and after the debugging process is finished, now if you want it as a stand alone product then it is not possible directly. Because every time to run your program (in whatever language: C, C++, Python), you were triggering it to run the program by logging in via ‘ssh’ or direct GUI. But this way is not feasible for the actual product. The actual device should start operating itself as per required application, when it boots. We cannot use Laptop/PC that time. So here there is a way by which you can enable your Beaglebone to run your actual program when it boots. So it directly starts your application.

For example, you are creating a barcode reader device, then your beaglebone should be able to start accepting and processing data from barcode device directly right from the boot time. Continue reading