Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Summary
We addressed a topic that will be very useful for most of the media projects
that you'll want to implement. The Chipsee expansion board lets you create
an interactive object to watch videos, play some games, program in different
languages, establish network and industrial communications, and many more.
What is important to note here is that this is a good platform for creative minds.
It means that you can use these hardware capabilities for your own software, such
as house management, media, server, and so on. In addition, I hope that you have
now understood that the time you've spent to learn the command line and the Linux
system from the previous chapters have been useful here. This knowledge can be
reused for your next projects, embedded or not. This is the most important thing:
to learn once and then deploy multiple times.
From the BeagleBone market place, the Chipsee expansion board is just one item
among many capes; you should regularly visit the capes store for new boards. These
choices let you have many different combinations to be experimented with. Imagine
that we were playing with a single BeagleBone and now this configuration can be a
part of a network of multiple BeagleBones, each one equipped with a different cape
using sensors/actuators, thus allowing you to have wider projects.
We will now abandon the hardware part of this topic and continue on our journey
of creativity by taking a look at the software side of the journey in the same spirit.
In the end, you can have your own software.
