Your platform can move around, but if you are going to do some automated movement, you're going to want some of the additional information that the BeagleBone Blue can provide. This will come in the form of a compass direction that the built-in IMU can measure and return programmatically.
In order to access this information, you'll first need to run two different calibration programs. The first is rc_calibrate_mag and the second is rc_calibrate_gyro. When you run rc_calibrate_mag, it will direct you to move your platform around in as many ways as possible for 15 seconds. It will then use this date to calibrate the magnetic fields so that it can give a valid compass reading. The rc_calibrate_gyro program will also calibrate the gyros.
Then, you can try the test program for the compass by running the rc_test_imu program. This...
