Exploring BeagleBone: Tools and Techniques for Building with Embedded Linux

Book Description

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

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.

Table of Contents

Part I BeagleBone Basics
Chapter 1 The BeagleBone Hardware
Chapter 2 The BeagleBone Black Software
Chapter 3 Exploring Embedded Linux Systems
Chapter 4 Interfacing Electronics
Chapter 5 Practical BeagleBone Programming

Part II Interfacing, Controlling, and Communicating
Chapter 6 Interfacing to the BeagleBone Input/Outputs
Chapter 7 Cross-Compilation and the Eclipse IDE
Chapter 8 Interfacing to the BeagleBone Buses
Chapter 9 Interacting with the Physical Environment

Part III Advanced BeagleBone Systems
Chapter 10 The Internet of Things
Chapter 11 BeagleBone with a Rich User Interface
Chapter 12 Images, Video, and Audio
Chapter 13 Real-Time BeagleBone Interfacing

中文：

书名：Exploring BeagleBone: Tools and Techniques for Building with Embedded Linux

使用Beaglebone嵌入式Linux平台构建的深入说明和实用技术

探索Beaglebone是一个实践指南，介绍如何使用流行的Beaglebone嵌入式Linux平台使小工具、小工具和机器人栩栩如生。全面的内容和深入的细节提供的不仅仅是一本Beaglebone说明手册，您还将学习基本的工程技术，使您能够创建自己的项目。这本书从基本技能的基础入门开始，然后逐渐进入使用C/C++的通信、控制和高级应用程序，允许您按照自己的进度学习。此外，这本书的配套网站还提供教学视频、源代码、论坛等，以确保您拥有所需的一切。

Beaglebone的小尺寸、高性能、低成本和极端的适应性使其成为最受欢迎的开发平台，而Linux软件基础允许复杂而灵活的功能。Beaglebone在智能建筑、机器人控制、环境传感等领域有应用；此外，扩展板和外围设备极大地增加了可能性。探索Beaglebone为这款设备提供了一个方便读者的指南，包括计算机工程的速成课程。在循序渐进的过程中，您可以：

• 了解嵌入式Linux、电子学和编程的最新情况
• 主控接口电子电路、母线和模块，并附有实例
• 通过显示器探索联网的Beaglebone和Beaglebone
• 将Beaglebone应用于传感应用，包括视频和声音
• 探索Beaglebone的可编程实时控制器

实践学习有助于确保您掌握新技能，使您能够使用电子产品、模块或外围设备进行设计，甚至超越Beaglebone。有洞察力的指导和在线同行支持帮助您从初学者过渡到专家，因为您掌握了《探索Beaglebone》中介绍的技术，这本实用手册适用于流行的计算平台。

Table of Contents

Part I BeagleBone Basics
Chapter 1 The BeagleBone Hardware
Chapter 2 The BeagleBone Black Software
Chapter 3 Exploring Embedded Linux Systems
Chapter 4 Interfacing Electronics
Chapter 5 Practical BeagleBone Programming

第二部分对接、控制和沟通
Chapter 6 Interfacing to the BeagleBone Input/Outputs
第7章交叉编译和Eclipse IDE
第八章与Beaglebone巴士的接口
第9章与物理环境的互动

Part III Advanced BeagleBone Systems
Chapter 10 The Internet of Things
第11章Beaglebone提供丰富的用户界面
Chapter 12 Images, Video, and Audio
Chapter 13 Real-Time BeagleBone Interfacing