Chapter 6
Introducing Digital Electronics with the BeagleBone
In This Chapter
Finding out about the tools of the trade for electronic projects
Discovering several electrical components for your circuits
Getting acquainted with the GPIO pins
Controlling the BeagleBone’s Output and Input pins by writing into and reading from files
Figuring out what PWM is and how you can employ it using the BeagleBone
Augmenting the BeagleBone’s capabilities with capes
This chapter is where working with the BeagleBone starts to get cool. If you’ve worked through the chapters consecutively, you understand how to use Linux and play around with the command-line prompt, and you have a grasp of the basics of electronics. For the remainder of this book, you use this combined knowledge to unlock the BeagleBone’s full potential.
Besides the outstanding computational power that the BeagleBone offers, it also ...
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