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Learning BeagleBone

You're reading from Learning BeagleBone Learn how to love and care for your BeagleBone and teach it tricks

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783982905

Length 206 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Hunyue Yau

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing the Beagle Boards

2. Software in the BeagleBone FREE CHAPTER

3. Building an LED Flasher

4. Refining the LED Flasher

5. Connecting the BeagleBone to Mobile Devices

6. Recovering from the Mistakes

7. Interfacing with the BeagleBone

8. Advanced Software Topics

9. Expansion Boards and Options

A. The Boot Process

B. Terms and Definitions

Index

Distributions on the BeagleBone

The BeagleBone can run many different distributions similar to those available for desktops and laptops. However, the BeagleBone is shipped with two specific distributions, namely, Angström and Debian. Both the flavors are available in an easy-to-load format specifically for the BeagleBone.

The Angström Linux distribution

Angström has supported every Beagle board available since the beginning. The BeagleBone White is shipped with a microSD card that contains Angström. Early revisions of the BeagleBone Black were shipped pre-installed with the Angström. A quick overview of Angström (http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/) is as follows:

Angström is built with OpenEmbedded and provides a lot of configuration flexibility
Angström is more commonly used with embedded devices and is a little bit different from what people might be used to on the desktop/laptop
The entire image can be locally built to give you an image with all...

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Authors (1)

Hunyue Yau

Hunyue Yau

Hunyue Yau is an electrical engineer who graduated from the California Institute of Technology. He has worked with Linux since the early '90s, starting with the Soft Landing System. He created one of the first embedded Linux devices in 1996 with a custom-made distribution. He has worked on various products such as embedded Linux appliances, embedded BSD-based devices, and embedded Linux mobile devices. As an active member of the BeagleBoard community, he has volunteered at numerous community events, from Maker Faire to Google Summer of Code mentoring. Today, Hunyue synergizes his electrical engineering skills with embedded Linux software skills to provide turnkey embedded Linux consulting services through HY Research LLC (http://www.hy-research.com/), a company founded by him.

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