With this cookbook's collection of recipes, BeagleBoard software guru Jason Kridner and engineering educator Mark A. Yoder get you developing with BeagleBone in minutes. BeagleBone Cookbook shows you how to add and program sensors, motors, displays, and other hardware to this revolutionary, credit-card-sized Linux computer.

Using the proven problem/solution/discussion format, the book’s modular solutions work together to help you extend Linux's power with this open hardware computer in useful and creative ways. It's ideal for programmers, hobbyists, and professionals with some programming and BeagleBone Black experience.

You’ll learn how to:

• Read a switch and blink an LED using the BoneScript extensions to JavaScript
• Control a string of RGB LEDs
• Respond to a tweet
• Use the two programmable real-time units (PRUs) for time-critical computing
• Recompile the kernel and install a new module