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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

The structure of home automation systems


This section will give you a basic idea about home automation systems that are connected to the Internet. In the following picture you can see that the mobile phone and the IoT devices are connected to Internet via the LAN Routers:

We will also be doing something similar in this chapter using the BeagleBone board, connected to Internet via our home router, to control an AC bulb using the relay circuit which is interfaced with the BeagleBone board. To do this, we will have setup a webserver on our BeagleBone board. We will see how to do this in the next topic of this chapter.