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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

Summary


In this chapter we learnt about giving Internet access to the BeagleBone board through Wi-Fi, and sending an e-mail alert whenever temperature measured, using a temperature sensor connected to BeagleBone board, goes high or low, depending on the threshold value set in the program. We also saw how we can upload data to the cloud web server using HTTP requests made to the server from the BeagleBone board using Python. So, we have learnt how to set up basic level Internet of Things projects in this chapter. You can go ahead and explore the options of using the requests module in Python to use HTTP Put, Post, and Get requests on various freely available open source cloud servers built for IoT which are just like https://thingspeak.com/, which we used in this chapter. There are options where, instead of uploading data using an HTTP post request, you can get data from a cloud server; that is you can read data from the cloud server and print it on the Python program. You can read data from...