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Published inDec 2013
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ISBN-139781783559329
Edition1st Edition
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Richard Grimmett
Richard Grimmett
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Richard Grimmett

Richard Grimmett has more fun that should be allowed working on robotics projects while teaching Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University Idaho. He has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Leadership Studies. He also has 26 years of experience in the Radar and Telecommunications industries, and even has one of the original brick phones. He has written books on the basics of using the BeagleBone Black for robotics projects, and another for the Raspberry PI and yet another for the Arduino.
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Creating and running Python programs on the BeagleBone Black

Now that you can get around, and even edit programs, you can begin to use the BeagleBone Black to create programs so you can control your robotic projects.

Prepare for lift off

Now that you are ready to begin programming, you'll need to choose a language. There are many available, C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, and a great deal of other possibilities. I'm going to introduce you to Python for two reasons. First, it is a straightforward language that is intuitive and very easy to use. Second, much of the open source functionality in the robotics world is available in Python. We'll also cover a bit of C in this chapter as well, as some functionality is only available in C. But it makes most sense to start in Python. To work the examples in this section, you'll need a version of Python installed to complete this section. Fortunately the basic Ubuntu system has a version already installed, so you are ready to begin.

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Richard Grimmett

Richard Grimmett has more fun that should be allowed working on robotics projects while teaching Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University Idaho. He has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Leadership Studies. He also has 26 years of experience in the Radar and Telecommunications industries, and even has one of the original brick phones. He has written books on the basics of using the BeagleBone Black for robotics projects, and another for the Raspberry PI and yet another for the Arduino.
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