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Beaglebone Media Center

By : David Lewin
Book Image

Beaglebone Media Center

By: David Lewin

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
BeagleBone Media Center
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Ideas to Improve Your Server
Index

Chapter 6. Illuminate Your Imagination with Your Own Projects

The previous chapter showed that the BeagleBone Black board is designed to accept hardware add-ons called capes and how they ease the setup of projects. We can apply the same philosophy to the software part, thanks to the different tools that help developers. Now, in this chapter, we will go further with our hands-on approach by creating our applications.

You'll then have an overall view of how you can realize your own ideas without many difficulties. Thus the main purpose of this chapter could be resumed as:

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

I hope that you'll be more eager to develop projects by yourself afterwards.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Presenting the "matrix revolution"

  • Diving into the software parts

  • Example 1 – our first client server application

  • Example 2 – improving the first example by adding functionalities

  • Example 3 – creating animated...