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You're reading from BeagleBone Robotic Projects Developer or hobbyist, you'll love the way this book helps you turn the BeagleBone Black into a working robot. From listening and speaking to seeing and moving, we'll show you how ‚Äì step by step.

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783559329

Length 244 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

BeagleBone

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Richard Grimmett

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

BeagleBone Robotic Projects

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Getting Started with the BeagleBone Black FREE CHAPTER

2. Programming the BeagleBone Black

3. Providing Speech Input and Output

4. Allowing the BeagleBone Black to See

5. Making the Unit Mobile – Controlling Wheeled Movement

6. Making the Unit Very Mobile – Controlling Legged Movement

7. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors

8. Going Truly Mobile – Remote Control of Your Robot

9. Using a GPS Receiver to Locate Your Robot

10. System Dynamics

11. By Land, Sea, and Air

Index

Hooking up the HW to make and input sound

For this task, you are going to hook up your HW so that you can record and play sound.

Prepare for lift off

Reassemble your BeagleBone Black. Plug in the LAN cable. Connect the powered USB hub and plug in the microphone/speaker USB device. Also plug in your speakers and the microphone.

Plug in the power. You can execute all of the following instructions in one of the several ways.

If you are still connected to the display, keyboard, and mouse, log in to the board, use startx to start Xfce (your windowing system), and then open a terminal window.

If you are only connected via LAN, you can do all of this using an SSH terminal window, so as soon as your board flashes that it has power (look for the heartbeat LED), open up an SSH terminal window using PuTTY or some similar terminal emulator. Once the terminal window comes up, log in with your username and password. Now type in cat /proc/asound/cards. You should see the following response: