Charles Hamilton

Richard Grimmett

Rodolfo Giometti

Learn to build amazing robotic projects using the powerful BeagleBone Black. About This Book Push your creativity to the limit through complex, diverse, and fascinating projects Develop applications with the BeagleBone Black and open source Linux software Sharpen your expertise in making sophisticated electronic devices Who This Book Is For This Learning Path is aimed at hobbyists who want to do creative projects that make their life easier and also push the boundaries of what can be done with the BeagleBone Black. This Learning Path's projects are for the aspiring maker, casual programmer, and budding engineer or tinkerer. You'll need some programming knowledge, and experience of working with mechanical systems to get the complete experience from this Learning Path. What You Will Learn Set up and run the BeagleBone Black for the first time Get to know the basics of microcomputing and Linux using the command line and easy kernel mods Develop a simple web interface with a LAMP platform Prepare complex web interfaces in JavaScript and get to know how to stream video data from a webcam Find out how to use a GPS to determine where your sailboat is, and then get the bearing and distance to a new waypoint Use a wind sensor to sail your boat effectively both with and against the wind Build an underwater ROV to explore the underwater world See how to build an autonomous Quadcopter In Detail BeagleBone is a microboard PC that runs Linux. It can connect to the Internet and run OSes such as Android and Ubuntu. You can transform this tiny device into a brain for an embedded application or an endless variety of electronic inventions and prototypes. This Learning Path starts off by teaching you how to program the BeagleBone. You will create introductory projects to get yourselves acquainted with all the nitty gritty. Then we'll focus on a series of projects that are aimed at hobbyists like you and encompass the areas of home automation and robotics. With each project, we'll teach you how to connect several sensors and an actuator to the BeagleBone Black. We'll also create robots for land, sea, and water. Yes, really! The books used in this Learning Path are: BeagleBone Black Cookbook BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints Mastering BeagleBone Robotics Style and approach This practical guide transforms complex and confusing pieces of technology to become accessible with easy- to-succeed instructions. Through clear, concise examples, you will quickly get to grips with the core concepts needed to develop home automation applications with the BeagleBone Black.

BeagleBone: Creative Projects for Hobbyists

Automate and control your home using the power of the BeagleBone Black with practical home automation projects Key Features [*] Build, set up, and develop your circuits via step-by-step tutorial of practical examples, from initial board setup to device driver management [*] Get access to several kinds of computer peripherals to monitor and control your domestic environment using this guide [*] This book is spread across 10 chapters all focused on one practical home automation project Book DescriptionBeagleBone is a microboard PC that runs Linux. It can connect to the Internet and can run OSes such as Android and Ubuntu. BeagleBone is used for a variety of different purposes and projects, from simple projects such as building a thermostat to more advanced ones such as home security systems. Packed with real-world examples, this book will provide you with examples of how to connect several sensors and an actuator to the BeagleBone Black. You’ll learn how to give access to them, in order to realize simple-to-complex monitoring and controlling systems that will help you take control of the house. You will also find software examples of implementing web interfaces using the classical PHP/HTML pair with JavaScript, using complex APIs to interact with a Google Docs account, WhatsApp, or Facebook. This guide is an invaluable tutorial if you are planning to use a BeagleBone Black in a home automation project. What you will learn [*] Build a CO (and other gas) sensor with a buzzer/LED alarm to signal high concentrations [*] Log environment data and plot it in a fancy manner [*] Develop a simple web interface with a LAMP platform [*] Prepare complex web interfaces in JavaScript and get to know how to stream video data from a webcam [*] Use APIs to get access to a Google Docs account or a WhatsApp/Facebook account to manage a home automation system [*] Add custom device drivers to manage an LED with different blinking frequencies [*] Discover how to work with electronic components to build small circuits [*] Use an NFS, temperature sensor, relays, and other peripherals to monitor and control your surroundings Who this book is for This book is for developers who know how to use BeagleBone and are just above the “beginner” level. If you want to learn to use embedded machine learning capabilities, you should have some experience of creating simple home automation projects.

Automate and control your home using the power of the BeagleBone Black with practical home automation projects

BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints

Embedded computers have become very complex and are now called upon to solve a range of increasingly advanced problems. This added complexity means embedded systems need even more complex operating systems in order to work as required. The Yocto Project is now the effective standard for most embedded systems around the world due to its robustness and high configuration, availability of software packages and the ability to support several hardware platforms with common mechanisms so that developers can deploy their systems with ease regardless of the machine. Yocto Project Customization for Linux is not just another book talking about the Yocto Project, but shows how the Yocto Build system really works. Developers can easily and quickly move from the demo Yocto Project distributions that silicon vendors rely on for their development kits to their final product. This book is a practical guide teaching you everything you need to know about writing new recipes and customizing existing ones by explaining the Build System internals and how to manage them for your ongoing projects. You Will Learn: To understand Yocto Project internals and how Yocto Project tools work How to define a new meta layer or a new machine/distro in order to generate a custom Yocto Project image for their embedded system To generate a new Yocto Project recipe for your software, or to alter an already existing recipe in order to fit your needs How to update one or more packages on their running Yocto Project system How to optimize and effectively manage the Yocto Build System Who is it for: This is for embedded developers as well as Linux users who want to know more how to use Yocto

The Essential Guide for Embedded Developers

Yocto Project Customization for Linux

Over 30 recipes to develop custom drivers for your embedded Linux applications. Key Features Use Kernel facilities to develop powerful drivers Via a practical approach, learn core concepts of developing device drivers Program a custom character device to get access to kernel internals Book Description Linux is a unified kernel that is widely used to develop embedded systems. As Linux has turned out to be one of the most popular operating systems used, the interest in developing proprietary device drivers has also increased. Device drivers play a critical role in how the system performs and ensures that the device works in the manner intended. By offering several examples on the development of character devices and how to use other kernel internals, such as interrupts, kernel timers, and wait queue, as well as how to manage a device tree, you will be able to add proper management for custom peripherals to your embedded system. You will begin by installing the Linux kernel and then configuring it. Once you have installed the system, you will learn to use the different kernel features and the character drivers. You will also cover interrupts in-depth and how you can manage them. Later, you will get into the kernel internals required for developing applications. Next, you will implement advanced character drivers and also become an expert in writing important Linux device drivers. By the end of the book, you will be able to easily write a custom character driver and kernel code as per your requirements. What you will learn Become familiar with the latest kernel releases (4.19+/5.x) running on the ESPRESSObin devkit, an ARM 64-bit machine Download, configure, modify, and build kernel sources Add and remove a device driver or a module from the kernel Master kernel programming Understand how to implement character drivers to manage different kinds of computer peripherals Become well versed with kernel helper functions and objects that can be used to build kernel applications Acquire a knowledge of in-depth concepts to manage custom hardware with Linux from both the kernel and user space Who this book is for This book will help anyone who wants to develop their own Linux device drivers for embedded systems. Having basic hand-on with Linux operating system and embedded concepts is necessary.

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