1.
Welcome To The World of
Embedded Computing With
BeagleBone Black

2.
Arduino

3.
Atmel328 Specifications (Arduino)
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Flash 32 Kbytes
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RAM
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Pin Count 28
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Max. Operating Frequency 20 Mhz
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CPU 8-bit AVR
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Max I/O Pins 26
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USB Interface No
2 Kbytes

4.
Beagle Bone Black

5.
AM335x Specificaions
(BeagleBone)
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Flash 2GB
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RAM
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Pin Count 96
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Max. Operating Frequency
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CPU 32bit ARM
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Max I/O Pins 65
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USB, Ethernet
512MB
1 Ghz

6.
Very, Extremely, Outrageously
POWERFUL
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Can Run UBUNTU, FEDORA, ANDROID
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Can support multitasking, multithreading
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A small, portable full fledged computer.

7.
Check Out The Following

8.
Pin Out

9.
Linux
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GNOME desktop.
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PYTHON, makes programming very easy.
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Adafruit.com provides standard libraries.
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Library name PyBBIO
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http://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-io-python-lib
rary-on-beaglebone-black/installation

10.
BOW WooooW
Let's Get Started !!

11.
First Time Setup
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SSH into the Bone
ssh root@192.168.7.2
password: root
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Update Time use, ntpdate -b -s -u pool.ntp.org
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Download the Adafruit Library
opkg update && opkg install python-pip python-setuptools
python-smbus pip install Adafruit_BBIO

12.
Pulse Width Modulation
Remember!! PWM is NOT Analog Signal!!

13.
Servo Control
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Servo control is independent of frequency
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We use frequency of 60Hz

14.
Further Reading
For Beginners
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http://learn.adafruit.com/category/beaglebone
For Intermediates
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http://derekmolloy.ie/tag/beaglebone-black/
For Gurus
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AM335x TRM www.ti.com/lit/pdf/SPRZ360

15.
Chirag Nagpal
SE Computer Engineering
Army Institute of Technology, Pune
India
th
5 February 2014
www.chiragnagpal.com