In this chapter, we will be focusing on connecting the BeagleBone board to the Internet to connect the physical computing systems that we build to the Internet. First we will look into giving Internet access to the BeagleBone board via Ethernet, then we will learn how to add Wi-Fi capability to the BeagleBone board so that the system we build can be placed anywhere where we have Wi-Fi access, and so that we are not restricted to setting up the system only where the Ethernet is available. Once we are done with this, we will go ahead and build two projects; in the first one we will send an e-mail alert whenever the temperature sensor reading goes above a set level in the Python program running on the BeagleBone board. The next one will be a basic beginner project on Internet of Things for you to get started where the BeagleBone board will be uploading the temperature sensor data to a cloud server on the Internet. So basically...