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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 what parts you need in this chapter. These can be purchased from your favorite electrical hobby store or can simply be ordered online. We will need the following materials:

  • 1 x BeagleBone Black

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

  • 1 x 5V DC, 2A power supply

  • 1 x Ethernet cable

  • 1 x Breadboard

  • 1 x push button switch

  • 1 x LED

  • 1 x 470-ohm resistor

  • 1 x 4.7 Kilo ohm resistor