Getting Started with Beagle Bone

I am relatively new to the Angstrom distribution on the Beaglebone Black. Compared to the Arduino and Raspberry Pi, the Beaglebone has a tremendous lack of tutorials and documentation. This makes learning on the platform much more difficult. I have linux Mint 14 on my laptop and my desktop so I am familiar with commands and navigating linux. The whole GPIO is a bit intimidating on the new boards so I decided to pick up a copy of Getting Started with the Beaglebone by Matt Richardson. It is only a $10 book and Matt has had the Beaglebone for some time prior to its release. It is currently in its raw version and does not have all the chapters released but I got the electronic copy so as the chapters are published I get notified and just download the document again. I think it will be a great help

In addition to my scanner I have done some astrophotography. I was working on a barn door tracker which rotates with the earth to give longer exposures. The Beaglebone would be great to control my DSLR or even better capture and process the images for my 3D scanner. Here is a picture of the Orian Nebula I captured awhile back.