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Published inDec 2014
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Hunyue Yau
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Hunyue Yau

Hunyue Yau is an electrical engineer who graduated from the California Institute of Technology. He has worked with Linux since the early '90s, starting with the Soft Landing System. He created one of the first embedded Linux devices in 1996 with a custom-made distribution. He has worked on various products such as embedded Linux appliances, embedded BSD-based devices, and embedded Linux mobile devices. As an active member of the BeagleBoard community, he has volunteered at numerous community events, from Maker Faire to Google Summer of Code mentoring. Today, Hunyue synergizes his electrical engineering skills with embedded Linux software skills to provide turnkey embedded Linux consulting services through HY Research LLC (http://www.hy-research.com/), a company founded by him.
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User interfaces


Until this point, the LED flasher has hardcoded parameters. It would be very nice to control the flashing with a user interface. The BeagleBone is naturally connected to the network. So far, all our accesses have been via a network over the USB interface. The BeagleBone also has an Ethernet interface that we have not used yet. Our next few exercises are to add an interface to change the behavior of the LED flasher.

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Up to this point, all our exercises were done using shell scripting. The BeagleBone ships with another language, BoneScript, which allows the BeagleBone to be programmed using a language similar to JavaScript. Shell script was chosen for exercises over BoneScript to provide an easier path for programmers who are not web oriented to transition to the BeagleBone environment.

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Our user interface will be accessed through a web browser. The web pages will be served using the same web server shipped with the BeagleBone that BoneScript uses. Communications between...

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Hunyue Yau

Hunyue Yau is an electrical engineer who graduated from the California Institute of Technology. He has worked with Linux since the early '90s, starting with the Soft Landing System. He created one of the first embedded Linux devices in 1996 with a custom-made distribution. He has worked on various products such as embedded Linux appliances, embedded BSD-based devices, and embedded Linux mobile devices. As an active member of the BeagleBoard community, he has volunteered at numerous community events, from Maker Faire to Google Summer of Code mentoring. Today, Hunyue synergizes his electrical engineering skills with embedded Linux software skills to provide turnkey embedded Linux consulting services through HY Research LLC (http://www.hy-research.com/), a company founded by him.
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