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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

Summary


In this chapter, we used our knowledge from the previous chapter about OpenCV with what we learned in this chapter about PIR sensor interfacing using the BeagleBone board and sending e-mail using Python from the BeagleBone board to build a motion-detection camera surveillance security e-mail alert system. Instead of stopping this project here, I recommend you to try out other methods of motion detection and build the same system without a PIR sensor. There are lots of resources online on motion detection using OpenCV in real time using Python. Try setting up a system where without the PIR sensor, motion detection is performed using just the camera and an e-mail alert is sent.