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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

Advanced level project: Uploading sensor data to a web cloud


The connections are similar to the previous project, the only difference in that will be writing a new Python program to upload data to a freely available cloud server using HTTP call methods.

With the same connections as the previous project, connect the temperature sensor to the BeagleBone board.

Then the first thing we need to do is setup the cloud server to which we need to upload data. We will be using a freely available cloud storage space website specially setup for IoT applications. The website is www.thingspeak.com, We chose to use this cloud solution out of the many available because ThingSpeak makes it very simple to upload data from hardware to a cloud for IoT applications. They have a lot of examples for different hardware development boards used for different applications. Looking at these wide variety of examples and easy APIs will help you experiment a lot more on your own using the BeagleBone board than what we do...