Rodolfo Giometti & Richard Grimmett 
BeagleBone: Creative Projects for Hobbyists 

Learn to build amazing robotic projects using the powerful Beagle Bone Black.About This Book Push your creativity to the limit through complex, diverse, and fascinating projects Develop applications with the Beagle Bone 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 Beagle Bone 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 Beagle Bone 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 Java Script 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 Beagle Bone 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 Beagle Bone. 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 Beagle Bone Black. We’ll also create robots for land, sea, and water. Yes, really!The books used in this Learning Path are:Beagle Bone Black Cookbook Beagle Bone Home Automation Blueprints Mastering Beagle Bone 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 Beagle Bone Black.