You can access your board now. You've learned some simple programming. Now you will add the capability to move the entire project. Perhaps the easiest way to make our projects mobile is to add a wheeled base. You'll do that in this chapter, where you will be introduced to some of the basics of controlling DC motors and using the BeagleBone Blue to control the speed and direction of your wheeled platform.
Even though you can access your board, you need to make it mobile to really call it a robot. In this chapter, you'll learn how to attach your board, both mechanically and electrically, to a board so that your projects can be mobile. Mobility; what could be more amazing than that?
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Connecting the BeagleBone Blue directly to your wheeled platform
- Controlling...