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BeagleBone Robotic Projects

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783559329
Pages 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Richard Grimmett Richard Grimmett
Profile icon Richard Grimmett

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

BeagleBone Robotic Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Getting Started with the BeagleBone Black Programming the BeagleBone Black Providing Speech Input and Output Allowing the BeagleBone Black to See Making the Unit Mobile – Controlling Wheeled Movement Making the Unit Very Mobile – Controlling Legged Movement Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors Going Truly Mobile – Remote Control of Your Robot Using a GPS Receiver to Locate Your Robot System Dynamics By Land, Sea, and Air Index

Downloading and installing OpenCV – a full-featured vision library


Now that you have your camera connected, you can begin to access some amazing capabilities that have been provided by the open source community. The most popular of these for computer vision is OpenCV.

Prepare for lift off

Now you need to install OpenCV, a complete vision library that provides tools for you to use to capture, process, and save your images. Before you do this, you need to expand the partition on your SD card so that you can download all the applications that you need. When you wrote the Linux operating system to your SD card, you copied a 2 GB image; so now your card thinks it is only a 2 GB card, no matter what size it really is. You need to reclaim this space.

To do this, you'll need to issue some fairly cryptic commands, but you can use the defaults, so it will be straightforward. First, open a terminal window. The card I am using is an 8 GB card, so if your card is of a different size, you might not see the...

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