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BeagleBone By Example

By : Pei JIA, Jayakarthigeyan Prabakar, Alexander Hiam
Book Image

BeagleBone By Example

By: Pei JIA, Jayakarthigeyan Prabakar, Alexander Hiam

Overview of this book

BeagleBone is a low cost, community-supported development platform to develop a variety of electronic projects. This book will introduce you to BeagleBone and get you building fun, cool, and innovative projects with it. Start with the specifications of BeagleBone Black and its operating systems, then get to grips with the GPIOs available in BeagleBone Black. Work through four types of exciting projects: building real-time physical computing systems, home automation, image processing for a security system, and building your own tele-controlled robot and learn the fundamentals of a variety of projects in a single book. By the end of this book, you will be able to write code for BeagleBone in order to operate hardware and impart decision-making capabilities with the help of efficient coding in Python.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BeagleBone By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Usage of breadboards


In this section, you will learn about what breadboards are, why they are called so, and how to use them. Once you are done with it, you should have a basic understanding of how breadboards work and be able to start using it to build basic circuits on a breadboard.

A breadboard is composed of electrical connections in rows and columns. Each column is electrically connected to each point on the row, you can see the black column line, that has connectivity. You can use wires to connect any column with another. There are larger rows on the top and bottom which are usually used for power supply positive and negative, in other words, VCC (power) and GND (ground) signals. You can use these to easily connect any column to VCC or GND or use it for any other purpose as per your wish as there is no restriction, it's just like any other row:

You can learn how to use a Breadboard by connecting the circuit given in the previous section to test it by setting up the same circuit on breadboard...