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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

Introduction to robotics


Many people remember only the famous actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and relate the humanoid terminator robot from the Terminator movies when they hear the word "robot". Even though it is true that the word robot relates to similar types of robots, people forget that the exact meaning of robots is not just that. Actually, that is just one type of robot: the humanoid type robots or—as people call them these days—androids are robots that resemble humans. We are still at the beginning stages of android robot development—there is a long way to go in that field of research if we are to reach results similar to science fiction movie robots.

Sci-Fi humanoid robot versus the most advanced actual robot currently available

What is called a robot has many different definitions. The definitions depend on which technology is being used in the robotic system and what application the robotic system performs. Relating to the known definition of the physical computing system, we can define...