<div><p>With the recipes in this cookbook, BeagleBoard software guru Jason Kridner and engineering educator Mark A. Yoder get you started developing in minutes. Using the proven problem/solution/discussion format, the book’s modular solutions work together to help you extend the power of Linux with this revolutionary open hardware computer in useful and creative ways.</p><p>Ideal for programmers, hobbyists, and professionals with some programming and BeagleBone Black experience, <i>BeagleBone Cookbook</i> shows you how to add and program sensors, motors, displays, and other hardware to this remarkable computer that’s about the size of a credit-card.</p><p>You’ll learn how to:</p><ul><li>Read a switch and blink an LED using the BoneScript extensions to JavaScript</li><li>Control a string of RGB LEDs</li><li>Respond to a tweet</li><li>Use the two programmable real-time units (PRUs) for time-critical computing</li><li>Recompile the kernel and install a new module</li></ul></div>