The BeagleBone Black Primer

The BeagleBone Black Primer

Master BeagleBone Black:

Today€s most powerful low-cost embedded development platform!

You can do amazing things with BeagleBone Black. Get started in just five minutes: all you need is a USB cable and this easy, hands-on primer!

Brian McLaughlin teaches you enough to be seriously dangerous. Start with the simplest embedded programming concepts. Explore BeagleBone Black€s capabilities, and learn all the essentials, from controlling I/O to establishing network connections.

Then, step by step, master increasingly advanced techniques with the Cloud9 IDE and BoneScript€¦Integrate external hardware€¦Install Linux or Android€¦Use Cape expansion boards to do even more.

Don€t just learn it: do it. This guide is packed with projects, from weather stations, to car computers, to a €œcapstone€ project using Software Defined Radio to capture signals from local airspace and orbiting satellites!

You won€t just put BeagleBone Black to work: you€ll start imagining great projects of your own. And then you€ll build them.

Discover how BeagleBone Black works, and what it can do

• Get your BeagleBone Black€"and get it working, fast
• Link your BeagleBone Black to the world, and link yourself to the global BeagleBone community
• Learn to read schematics and use them to connect hardware
• Prototype your projects with breadboards
• Extend BeagleBone Black with Capes
• Add sensors to capture and use data from the environment
• Use actuators to make things happen in the real world
• Make your BeagleBone Black recognize your face
• Learn from mistakes, and go beyond what you€ve already learned

 

Brian McLaughlin is an engineer by profession and by hobby. Building on a solid foundation in software, he was first exposed to advanced hardware topics while working on the Hubble Space Telescope. After working for Lockheed Martin, he joined NASA, where he€s supported many of NASA€s most exciting missions. He holds a B.S. in computer science (North Carolina State University) and an M.S. in systems engineering (University of Maryland). He€s also written for GeekDad and is a member of the growing Maker community.