Jumpstarting the Onion Omega2

Chapter 2 Getting to Know the Console

Now that we’ve got your Omega2 set up, let’s walk through the different parts of the console application and see what each one does before we play around with programming the board itself.

Once you’ve logged into your console, you should see a screen like the one in Figure 2-1.

Figure 2-1: The Omega2 console

GPIO Tool

Starting at the upper left, you see the first item on the screen is the GPIO tool, which lets you play around with the general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins on the O2 in real time, turning ...