BeagleBone By Example - Softcover

Jayakarthigeyan Prabakar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178528505X ISBN 13: 9781785285059

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Key Features

• Get to grips with the fundamentals of BeagleBone
• Leverage Python scripts to program BeagleBone for your requirements
• Build four exciting projects, from home automation to a tele-controlled robot

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Program on BeagleBone Black using Python
• Interface sensors and actuators to BeagleBone Black
• Build your own real-time physical computing systems
• Connect physical computing systems to cloud servers
• Build your own home automation and home security system
• Build your own tele-controlled robot with real-time video streaming

About this title

About the Author

Jayakarthigeyan Prabakar is an Electrical and Electronics Engineer with 3 years of experience in the development of real-time embedded systems. He loves building cloud-connected physical computing systems using Arduino, MSP430, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, Intel Edison, and more.

Jayakarthigeyan got his hands on electronics and started understanding how computing devices and operating systems work when he started repairing his personal computer on his own when he was in middle school.

Since his 3rd year in a undergraduate degree program, he started building prototypes for various start-ups around the world as a freelancer. Currently, Jayakarthigeyan is a full-time Tech Lead of the R & D division in a Robotics start-up and works as a consultant to many other companies as well, building prototypes to bring their ideas to reality.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178528505X
• ISBN 13: 9781785285059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268