Beagle Board and Processing

Hi,
I'm working to interactive art projects involving sensors and video
projections, i' have been using Arduino, Processing and Mac computers
for years, but I would like to get rid of laptop and use embedded
solution in order to get a more compact design and battery powered
solution for my installations...So I bought a Beagle Board XM.
After several attemps, and following the instructions on
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu , Ubuntu 11.10 is installed on the
board.
I need to have Processing running on BB, but I don't know how.
I downloaded Processing for linux at precessing.org but when I try to
run Processing i get a Syntax Error message on terminal, probably
related to java.
Has somebody sucessifully installed Processing on Beagleboard?
Thank you,
Andrea.

Hi,
I’m working to interactive art projects involving sensors and video
projections, i’ have been using Arduino, Processing and Mac computers
for years, but I would like to get rid of laptop and use embedded
solution in order to get a more compact design and battery powered
solution for my installations…So I bought a Beagle Board XM.
After several attemps, and following the instructions on
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu , Ubuntu 11.10 is installed on the
board.
I need to have Processing running on BB, but I don’t know how.
I downloaded Processing for linux at precessing.org but when I try to
run Processing i get a Syntax Error message on terminal, probably
related to java.
Has somebody sucessifully installed Processing on Beagleboard?

I’ve done it under Angstrom without any significant troubles. I documented my experience doing it on my blog.[1] Can you provide your output so we can provide suggestions?

I’ve been using Processing.JS for visualizations lately. I’ve been using node.js as the server and that puts the processing.js visualizations into the browser client for rendering. You can run a browser on the xM for this. Might not be as fast as Processing itself.

[1] http://blog.hangerhead.com/2011/04/processing-and-processing-js-on.html