I've been using Arduinos for a long time now in my projects and recently

I’ve been using Arduinos for a long time now in my projects and recently moved up to the Raspberry Pi. A few friends that I’ve met on Google Plus and I even made an Android app (https://code.google.com/p/raspdroid/) to control the Raspberry Pi’s I/O over the Internet using WebIOPi (https://code.google.com/p/webiopi/).

Thanks to a post from @Drew_Fustini_pdp7 I’ve been selected to RoadTest a Beaglebone Black by @element14 .

I was wondering if anyone has heard of the REST Api working on the BBB or if anyone had any tips or suggestions on where to start with the BBB in general.

This is my first ever BeagleBoard and I’m not sure where to begin.

You could start with Bonescript (you’ll find instructions for using that on the 192.168.7.2 on your black itself OR the http://beagleboard.org website)
There is another project called Userspace Arduino which is making Arduino functions run on the BeagleBone Black
https://github.com/prpplague/Userspace-Arduino
It’s still in beta ( @David_Anders and others, like me, are working on it).
But we have the PWM, ADC, GPIO and LEDs working.
Instructions on how to get started with it are here:
Userspace Arduino - eLinux.org
The IRC and Mailing list are good places to look for anything that I have missed
Redirecting to Google Groups
beagle on Freenode

Awesome. Thanks. I got the Bonescript working yesterday. I was flashing LEDs like a boss haha. It’s pretty cool how it’s setup. So far I’m liking the Beaglebone. (I currently have the regular one as there was a mess up in the RoadTest group.) The BBB is on its way though.

Have you seen some of the other examples of using BoneScript at http://beagleboard.org/support/BoneScript?

Not yet. I’ve just started looking around. Thanks.