Hardware
Banana Pro Blueprints. Leverage the capability of Banana Pi with exciting real-world projects
Ruediger Follmann, Tony Zhang
This book follows a tactical plan that will guide you through the implementation of Banana Pro and its configurations. You will then learn the various programming languages used with Banana Pi with the help of examples. In no time at all, you’ll be working on a wireless project that implements AirPlay servers, hotspots, and so on. Following this, you’ll develop a retro-style arcade kiosk game. Then we’ll move on to explore the multimedia features of Banana Pro by designing and building an enclosure for it. After this, you’ll learn to build a remote-controlled smart car and we’ll examine how to control a robotic arm. The book will conclude with the creation of a home sensor system that has the ability to expand or shrink to suit any home.
Charles A. Hamilton
There are many single-board controllers and computers such as Arduino, Udoo, or Raspberry Pi, which can be used to create electronic prototypes on circuit boards. However, when it comes to creating more advanced projects, BeagleBone Black provides a sophisticated alternative. Mastering the BeagleBone Black enables you to combine it with sensors and LEDs, add buttons, and marry it to a variety of add-on boards. You can transform this tiny device into the brain for an embedded application or an endless variety of electronic inventions and prototypes.With dozens of how-tos, this book kicks off with the basic steps for setting up and running the BeagleBone Black for the first time, from connecting the necessary hardware and using the command line with Linux commands to installing new software and controlling your system remotely. Following these recipes, more advanced examples take you through scripting, debugging, and working with software source files, eventually working with the Linux kernel. Subsequently, you will learn how to exploit the board's real-time functions. We will then discover exciting methods for using sound and video with the system before marching forward into an exploration of recipes for building Internet of Things projects. Finally, the book finishes with a dramatic arc upward into outer space, when you explore ways to build projects for tracking and monitoring satellites.
Jayakarthigeyan Prabakar
BeagleBone is a low cost, community-supported development platform to develop a variety of electronic projects. This book will introduce you to BeagleBone and get you building fun, cool, and innovative projects with it. Start with the specifications of BeagleBone Black and its operating systems, then get to grips with the GPIOs available in BeagleBone Black. Work through four types of exciting projects: building real-time physical computing systems, home automation, image processing for a security system, and building your own tele-controlled robot and learn the fundamentals of a variety of projects in a single book. By the end of this book, you will be able to write code for BeagleBone in order to operate hardware and impart decision-making capabilities with the help of efficient coding in Python.
Rodolfo Giometti
BeagleBone is a microboard PC that runs Linux. It can connect to the Internet and can run OSes such as Android and Ubuntu. BeagleBone is used for a variety of different purposes and projects, from simple projects such as building a thermostat to more advanced ones such as home security systems.Packed with real-world examples, this book will provide you with examples of how to connect several sensors and an actuator to the BeagleBone Black. You’ll learn how to give access to them, in order to realize simple-to-complex monitoring and controlling systems that will help you take control of the house. You will also find software examples of implementing web interfaces using the classical PHP/HTML pair with JavaScript, using complex APIs to interact with a Google Docs account, WhatsApp, or Facebook. This guide is an invaluable tutorial if you are planning to use a BeagleBone Black in a home automation project.
Richard Grimmett, Jason Kridner
BeagleBone Blue is effectively a small, light, cheap computer in a similar vein to Raspberry Pi and Arduino. It has all of the extensibility of today’s desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise. This project guide provides step-by-step instructions that enable anyone to use this new, low-cost platform in some fascinating robotics projects. By the time you are finished, your projects will be able to see, speak, listen, detect their surroundings, and move in a variety of amazing ways.The book begins with unpacking and powering up the components. This includes guidance on what to purchase and how to connect it all successfully, and a primer on programming the BeagleBone Blue. You will add additional software functionality available from the open source community, including making the system see using a webcam, hear using a microphone, and speak using a speaker.You will then learn to use the new hardware capability of the BeagleBone Blue to make your robots move, as well as discover how to add sonar sensors to avoid or find objects. Later, you will learn to remotely control your robot through iOS and Android devices. At the end of this book, you will seehow to integrate all of these functionalities to work together, before developing the most impressive robotics projects: Drone and Submarine.
Richard Grimmett
Thanks to new, inexpensive microcontrollers, robotics has become far more accessible than it was in the past. These microcontrollers provide a whole new set of capabilities to allow even the most inexperienced users to make amazingly complicated projects. Beaglebone is effectively a small, light, cheap computer in a similar vein to Raspberry Pi and Arduino. It has all of the extensibility of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise. This project guide provides step-by-step instructions to allow anyone to use this new, low cost platform in some fascinating robotics projects. By the time you are finished, your projects will be able to see, speak, listen, detect their surroundings, and move in a variety of amazing ways. The book begins with unpacking and powering up the components.This will include guidance on what to purchase and how to connect it all successfully–and a primer on programming the BeagleBone Black. Chapter by chapter, we will add additional software functionality available from the open source community, including how to make the system see using a webcam, how to hear using a microphone, and how to speak using a speaker. We then add hardware to make your robots move–including wheeled and legged examples–as well as covering how to add sonar sensors to avoid or find objects, plus wireless control to make your robot truly autonomous. Adding GPS allows the robot to find itself. Finally the book covers how to integrate all of this functionality so that it can all work together, before developing the most impressive robotics projects: those that can sail, fly, and explore underwater.
Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami L. Anami
Site reliability engineering is all about continuous improvement, finding the balance between business and product demands while working within technological limitations to drive higher revenue. But quantifying and understanding reliability, handling resources, and meeting developer requirements can sometimes be overwhelming. With a focus on reliability from an infrastructure and coding perspective, Becoming a Rockstar SRE brings forth the site reliability engineer (SRE) persona using real-world examples.This book will acquaint you the role of an SRE, followed by the why and how of site reliability engineering. It walks you through the jobs of an SRE, from the automation of CI/CD pipelines and reducing toil to reliability best practices. You’ll learn what creates bad code and how to circumvent it with reliable design and patterns. The book also guides you through interacting and negotiating with businesses and vendors on various technical matters and exploring observability, outages, and why and how to craft an excellent runbook. Finally, you’ll learn how to elevate your site reliability engineering career, including certifications and interview tips and questions.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to identify and measure reliability, reduce downtime, troubleshoot outages, and enhance productivity to become a true rockstar SRE!
Andrzej Pyrchla
Pamiętaj, BIOS nie gryzie! 800 opcji BIOS-u, czyli jak poprawić ustawienia płyty głównej własnego komputera Aktualizacja wersji BIOS-u, czyli co nowego można dziś znaleźć na płytach głównych Awaria BIOS-u, czyli kiedy warto podejmować się naprawy w warunkach domowych BIOS - niezwykle ważny system, bez którego nie może obyć się żaden komputer- bardzo rzadko pojawia się w obszarze zainteresowań przeciętnego użytkownika, nawet jeśli hasło "ustawienia płyty głównej" nie jest dla niego zupełną abstrakcją. A przecież opcje BIOS-u wyznaczają sposób działania komputera, wydatnie przyczyniając się do tego, czy jesteśmy zadowoleni z jego używania. Optymalne ustawienie tych opcji nie jest oczywiście zadaniem prostym, ale potrafi znacznie ułatwić codzienną pracę. Jeśli chcesz się o tym przekonać, otwórz tę książkę. Znajdziesz w niej opis około ośmiuset opcji dostępnych na różnych (w tym najnowszych) płytach głównych. "BIOS. Leksykon. Wydanie IV " to pozycja, która przyda się nie tylko profesjonalistom. Opisano w niej najważniejsze i najczęściej spotykane opcje BIOS-u wraz z zalecanymi ustawieniami, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem płyt głównych tych producentów, którzy są obecni na polskim rynku komputerowym. Ponadto autor zajął się zagadnieniem aktualizacji BIOS-u oraz samodzielnego rozwiązywania problemów ze starszymi wersjami płyt. Znajdziesz tu także adresy stron internetowych związanych z BIOS-em oraz indeks, który ułatwi Ci poruszanie się po leksykonie. Przestań tolerować irytujące zachowania swojego komputera- po prostu dobrze go ustaw! BIOS - zarys ogólny Wejście do menu BIOS-u - podstawy Układ menu głównego Alfabetyczny wykaz opcji BIOS-u Aktualizacja wersji BIOS-u Awaria BIOS-u Przydatne łącza do stron poświęconych zagadnieniom związanym z BIOS-em Przez BIOS do serca - pokochaj swój komputer.