BeagleBone Cookbook: Software and Hardware Problems and Solutions - Softcover

Yoder, Mark A.; Kridner, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491905395 ISBN 13: 9781491905395

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2015

Synopsis

BeagleBone is an inexpensive web server, Linux desktop, and electronics hub that includes all the tools you need to create your own projects—whether it’s robotics, gaming, drones, or software-defined radio. If you’re new to BeagleBone Black, or want to explore more of its capabilities, this cookbook provides scores of recipes for connecting and talking to the physical world with this credit-card-sized computer.

All you need is minimal familiarity with computer programming and electronics. Each recipe includes clear and simple wiring diagrams and example code to get you started. If you don’t know what BeagleBone Black is, you might decide to get one after scanning these recipes.

• Learn how to use BeagleBone to interact with the physical world
• Connect force, light, and distance sensors
• Spin servo motors, stepper motors, and DC motors
• Flash single LEDs, strings of LEDs, and matrices of LEDs
• Manage real-time input/output (I/O)
• Work at the Linux I/O level with shell commands, Python, and C
• Compile and install Linux kernels
• Work at a high level with JavaScript and the BoneScript library
• Expand BeagleBone’s functionality by adding capes
• Explore the Internet of Things

About this title

About the Author

Mark A. Yoder is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.  In January 2102, he was named the first Lawrence J. Giacoletto Chair in ECE.  He received the school’s Board of Trustees Outstanding Scholar Award in 2003. Dr. Yoder likes teaching Embedded Linux and Digital Signal Processing (DSP). He is coauthor of two award-winning texts, Signal Processing First  and DSP First: A Multimedia Approach, both with Jim McClellan and Ron Schafer.  Mark and his wife Sarah have three boys and seven girls, ranging in age from 12 to 31 years old.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491905395
• ISBN 13: 9781491905395
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346