About the Author

Rodolfo Giometti is an engineer, IT specialist, GNU/Linux expert and software libre evangelist.

Author of the books BeagleBone Essentials and BeagleBone Home Automation Blueprints by Packt Publishing and maintainer of the LinuxPPS projects (the Linux's Pulse Per Second subsystem) he still actively contributes to the Linux source code with several patches and new device drivers for industrial applications devices.

During his twenty-year+ experience, he, worked with x86, ARM, MIPS, & PowerPC-based platform.

Now, Rodolfo is the Co-Chief at HCE Engineering S.r.l. and he is the Co-Founder of the Cosino Project, which involves new hardware and software systems for the quick prototyping in industry environment, control automation, and remote monitoring.

I would like to thank my wife, Valentina, and my children, Romina and Raffaele, for their patience during the writing of this book. I also give deep thanks and gratitude to the Packt's guys Vivek Anantharaman, who gave to me the opportunity to write this book, and Rashmi Suvarna and Juliana Nair, who supported me in finishing this book (specially to Juliana Nair who spent her nights in editing the book's layout). Many thanks to Luca Zulberti, and Chris Simmonds for their support and effort in reviewing this book so carefully (specially to Luca Zulberti who so carefully re-checked my English, the code, and all circuitries). Also, a big thanks to Mohd Riyan Khan for his patience in adding all my modifications to the final review of this book.

Finally, I cannot forget to thank my parents. Giving me my first computer when I was a child, allowed me to be doing what I do today.