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BeagleBone By Example

BeagleBone By Example

By : Prabakar
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BeagleBone By Example

BeagleBone By Example

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By: Prabakar

Overview of this book

BeagleBone is a low cost, community-supported development platform to develop a variety of electronic projects. This book will introduce you to BeagleBone and get you building fun, cool, and innovative projects with it. Start with the specifications of BeagleBone Black and its operating systems, then get to grips with the GPIOs available in BeagleBone Black. Work through four types of exciting projects: building real-time physical computing systems, home automation, image processing for a security system, and building your own tele-controlled robot and learn the fundamentals of a variety of projects in a single book. By the end of this book, you will be able to write code for BeagleBone in order to operate hardware and impart decision-making capabilities with the help of efficient coding in Python.
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Live video streaming on the BeagleBone board

To stream live video from Logitech HD webcam C270 USB camera, connected via local server to the BeagleBone board you need to have a software package that can do the job. But you also need to install some essential software before you download and compile the live video streaming software. Let's get started with the installation of the software packages by executing the following commands :

  • sudo apt-get install imagemagick
    Live video streaming on the BeagleBone board

    When you are prompted to continue the operation, type Y, as shown at the end of the preceding screenshot, and hit Enter to continue and finish the installation:

  • sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev
    Live video streaming on the BeagleBone board
  • sudo apt-get install subversion
    Live video streaming on the BeagleBone board

Now that we have installed all the prerequite softwares, let's download and compile the video streaming software.

First create a separate directory in the home directory, and put the contents of the streaming software inside it:

  • mkdir mjpg
    Live video streaming on the BeagleBone board

Now let us change our working directory to the directory we created...

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