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Learning Beaglebone Python Programming

You're reading from Learning Beaglebone Python Programming Unleash the potential of BeagleBone using Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784399702

Length 196 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

BeagleBone

Concepts

Embedded Systems

Author (1):

Alexander C Hiam

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Before We Begin FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started

3. Digital Outputs

4. PWM and ADC Subsystems

5. User Input

6. Program Output

7. Serial Communication

8. Interfacing with External Devices

9. Using the Network

10. A Practical Example

A. The BeagleBone Black Pinout

B. Disabling HDMI

Index

Updating your Debian image

The GNU/Linux distributions for platforms such as the BeagleBone are typically provided as ISO images, which are single file copies of the flash memory with the distribution installed. BeagleBone images are flashed onto a microSD card that the BeagleBone can then boot from. It is important to update the Debian image on your BeagleBone to ensure that it has all the most up-to-date software and drivers, which can range from important security fixes to the latest and greatest features. First, grab the latest BeagleBone Black Debian image from http://beagleboard.org/latest-images. You should now have a .img.xz file, which is an ISO image with XZ compression.

Before the image can be flashed from a Windows PC, you'll have to decompress it. Install 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/), which will let you decompress the file from the context menu by right-clicking on it.

You can install Win32 Disk Imager (http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/) to flash the decompressed...

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Authors (1)

Alexander C Hiam

Alexander C Hiam

Alexander Hiam is a freelance embedded systems designer. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science (embedded systems) from Marlboro College. He is the sole proprietor of Gray Cat Labs, where he has been doing contract software and hardware development since 2012. Alex developed and actively maintains the PyBBIO Python library for BeagleBone. He has designed BeagleBone Capes professionally for clients, and he also actively contributes to the BeagleBone community by helping provide support on the mailing list and IRC channel and mentoring for the BeagleBoard.org organization during Google Summer of Code.

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