Exploring BeagleBone
Tools and Techniques for Building with Embedded Linux
Derek Molloy
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Exploring BeagleBone
Tools and Techniques for Building with Embedded Linux
Derek Molloy
Über dieses Buch
In-depth instruction and practical techniques for building with the BeagleBone embedded Linux platform
Exploring BeagleBone is a hands-on guide to bringing gadgets, gizmos, and robots to life using the popular BeagleBone embedded Linux platform. Comprehensive content and deep detail provide more than just a BeagleBone instruction manual-you'll also learn the underlying engineering techniques that will allow you to create your own projects. The book begins with a foundational primer on essential skills, and then gradually moves into communication, control, and advanced applications using C/C++, allowing you to learn at your own pace. In addition, the book's companion website features instructional videos, source code, discussion forums, and more, to ensure that you have everything you need.
The BeagleBone's small size, high performance, low cost, and extreme adaptability have made it a favorite development platform, and the Linux software base allows for complex yet flexible functionality. The BeagleBone has applications in smart buildings, robot control, environmental sensing, to name a few; and, expansion boards and peripherals dramatically increase the possibilities. Exploring BeagleBone provides a reader-friendly guide to the device, including a crash course in computer engineering. While following step by step, you can:
- Get up to speed on embedded Linux, electronics, and programming
- Master interfacing electronic circuits, buses and modules, with practical examples
- Explore the Internet-connected BeagleBone and the BeagleBone with a display
- Apply the BeagleBone to sensing applications, including video and sound
- Explore the BeagleBone's Programmable Real-Time Controllers
- Updated to cover the latest Beagle boards, Linux kernel versions, and Linux software releases.
- Includes new content on Linux kernel development, the Linux Remote Processor Framework, CAN bus, IoT frameworks, and much more!
Hands-on learning helps ensure that your new skills stay with you, allowing you to design with electronics, modules, or peripherals even beyond the BeagleBone. Insightful guidance and online peer support help you transition from beginner to expert as you master the techniques presented in Exploring BeagleBone, the practical handbook for the popular computing platform.
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Part I
Beagle Board Basics
In This Part
- Chapter 1: The Beagle Hardware Platform
- Chapter 2: Beagle Software
- Chapter 3: Exploring Embedded Linux Systems
- Chapter 4: Interfacing Electronics
- Chapter 5: Practical Beagle Board Programming
CHAPTER 1
The Beagle Hardware Platform
Introduction to the Boards
- They are powerful, containing a processor that can perform up to 2 billion instructions per second.
- They are widely available at relatively low-cost, as little as $25–$90 depending on the board chosen.
- They support many standard interfaces for electronics devices.
- They use little power, running at between 1 W (idle) and 2.3 W (peak).
- They are expandable through the use of daughter boards and USB devices.
- They are strongly supported by a huge community of innovators and enthusiasts.
- They are open-hardware and support open-software tools and applications for commercial and noncommercial applications.
NOTE
BeagleBoard.org
Foundation is a U.S. nonprofit corporation that aims to provide embedded systems education in open-source hardware and software. Over the last ten years, the Foundation has developed high-quality boards that are renowned in the open-source community for their detailed documentation, for their extensive support, and for providing a strong bridge between idea prototyping and commercial product design.