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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

Prerequisites


This topic will cover the parts you will need to get started with building the robot. These materials can be purchased from your local electrical hobby store or by ordering online from websites like Adafruit, Sparkfun, Seed Studio and so on.

Materials Needed

  • 1x BeagleBone Black

  • 1x microSD card with latest version of Debian flashed on it to boot the BeagleBone board from a microSD card

  • 1x 5V DC, 2A power supply/mobile power bank with USB output of 5V 2A or more

  • 1x USB WiFi dongle

  • 1x BreadBoard

  • 2x DC motors 50 to 100 RPM range operating at 12V

  • 1x L293D motor driver IC

  • 1x USB camera

  • 1x USB hub

  • 1x 12V or 9V battery

  • 1x USB cable

  • 1x DC barrel jack

  • Connecting wires