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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

Chapter 10. Building Your Own Robot

In this chapter we will see how to build our own robot using BeagleBone Black with Motors and Motor Driver IC interfaced with it. First we will learn about DC motors, followed by the L293D motor driver IC that will help us drive the DC motors. Then we will see how we can stream live video on a web page from the camera connected to the BeagleBone board. At the end we will build our own telecontrolled robot that you can control from a web page with a live video feed streaming from the camera connected to the BeagleBone Black.

The contents of this chapter are divided into:

  • Prerequisites

  • DC motors and the L293D motor driver IC

  • Live video streaming on the BeagleBone board

  • Advanced Project: A tele-controlled robot with live video streaming