Cloud 9 IDE on Edison

One of the things I like about the BeagleBone(Black) is that it comes with Cloud 9 IDE off the shelf which means that you do not need to install any kind of software (other than a browser) on your host system to start developing something on the board.

In this post we are going to talk about bringing the cloud 9 IDE experience onto the Edison.

Cloud 9 IDE on Edison

One of the things I like about the BeagleBone(Black) is that it comes with Cloud 9 IDE off the shelf which means that you do not need to install any kind of software (other than a browser) on your host system to start developing something on the board.
In this post we are going to talk about bringing the cloud 9 IDE experience onto the Edison.

TwitterPlotBot on Galileo/Edison

As you might have guessed from the title of this post, we are going to build yet another Twitter bot on Galileo. So what does it do differently then? It tweets the picture of the plot of the temperature(or any other parameter that you wish to see) right to your Twitter feed.

TwitterPlotBot on Galileo/Edison

As you might have guessed from the title of this post, we are going to build yet another Twitter bot on Galileo. So what does it do differently then? It tweets the picture of the plot of the temperature(or any other parameter that you wish to see) right to your Twitter feed.

SpeakingAssistant on Edison

So here it is, the Instructable for speaking assistant on Edison. It is similar to the version on Galileo except for 2 things:

1. I could not find Python setuptools in the repo and had to boot strap the setup tools.
2. You can specify the sound card that you want to use in the config file.

 I've done away with the buzzer because it was very noisy in the demo. 

SpeakingAssistant on Edison

So here it is, the Instructable for speaking assistant on Edison. It is similar to the version on Galileo except for 2 things:

1. I could not find Python setuptools in the repo and had to boot strap the setup tools.
2. You can specify the sound card that you want to use in the config file.

 I've done away with the buzzer because it was very noise in the demo. 

Python on Intel Galileo/Edison - Part 5:Temperature sensor with mraa and upm

The temperature sensor that we are gong to use for this post is from Grove. This sensor outputs the voltage that represents the temperature hence we will need the ADC module on the Intel Galileo/Edison to interface with this peripheral.

Python on Intel Galileo/Edison - Part 5:Temperature sensor with mraa and upm

The temperature sensor that we are gong to use for this post is from Grove. This sensor outputs the voltage that represents the temperature hence we will need the ADC module on the Intel Galileo/Edison to interface with this peripheral.

Python on Intel Galileo/Edison - Part 4: ADC

ADC is a peripheral that lets you input an analog signal and gives the digital representation of that analog signal.
The world in which we live in is surrounded by the analog signals. The temperature, sound that hear, the light that we see are all analog signals. If you want to interact or measure these signal in a digital system like Galileo/Edison, you'll have to use ADC a.k.a Analog to Digital Converter.

Python on Intel Galileo/Edison - Part 4: ADC

ADC is a peripheral that lets you input an analog signal and gives the digital representation of that analog signal.
The world in which we live in is surrounded by the analog signals. The temperature, sound that hear, the light that we see are all analog signals. If you want to interact or measure these signal in a digital system like Galileo/Edison, you'll have to use ADC a.k.a Analog to Digital Converter.

Python on Intel Galileo/Edison - Part 3: PWM

In this blog post, we are going to look into the process of using mraa methods for controlling the PWM module available on the Galileo/Edison.

What is PWM?
 PWM stands for pulse width modulation. As the name suggests, there is a "pulse" and with "width", we mess("modulation"). The idea here is to change the width of the pulse, resulting in another pulse that meets our needs.

Python on Intel Galileo/Edison - Part 3: PWM

In this blog post, we are going to look into the process of using mraa methods for controlling the PWM module available on the Galileo/Edison.

What is PWM?
 PWM stands for pulse width modulation. As the name suggests, there is a "pulse" and with "width", we mess("modulation"). The idea here is to change the width of the pulse, resulting in another pulse that meets our needs.

Python on Intel Galileo/Edison - Part 2: Buttons

In this post, we will be writing a Python script to read button inputs.
As in previous post, mraa library is used for handling the GPIO. For this example, the button will be used to turn on and off an LED connected to the Galileo. This example is going to be very similar to the previous one. The only difference being that the state of the LED is controlled by a button instead of the program running on Galileo itself.

Python on Intel Galileo/Edison - Part 2: Buttons

In this post, we will be writing a Python script to read button inputs.
As in previous post, mraa library is used for handling the GPIO. For this example, the button will be used to turn on and off an LED connected to the Galileo. This example is going to be very similar to the previous one. The only difference being that the state of the LED is controlled by a button instead of the program running on Galileo itself.

Python on Intel Galileo/Edison - Part 1

In this series of blog posts, I'll be posting on writing Python code on Intel Galileo platform. I'll be using the Grove kit. You can also use a bread board instead of Grove kit.

There are two libraries available on the Intel Galileo for developing applications written in python that need to use sensors, actuators, LEDs etc...

1. MRAA: Provides API for interfacing with the GPIOs, ADCs, PWM, SPI, etc... It is basically for interfacing the low level peripherals. It is kind of bare bones, you can use the functions provided by MRAA to drive more complicated peripherals like sensors or you can use...


2. UPM: Provides higher levels of abstractions via objects for controlling things like LCDs, temperature sensors etc... It is a level above the MRAA and most of the functions that you might need while interfacing a sensor or LCD are already implemented in UPM.

Python on Intel Galileo/Edison - Part 1

In this series of blog posts, I'll be posting on writing Python code on Intel Galileo platform. I'll be using the Grove kit. You can also use a bread board instead of Grove kit.

There are two libraries available on the Intel Galileo for developing applications written in python that need to use sensors, actuators, LEDs etc...

1. MRAA: Provides API for interfacing with the GPIOs, ADCs, PWM, SPI, etc... It is basically for interfacing the low level peripherals. It is kind of bare bones, you can use the functions provided by MRAA to drive more complicated peripherals like sensors or you can use...
2. UPM: Provides higher levels of abstractions via objects for controlling things like LCDs, temperature sensors etc... It is a level above the MRAA and most of the functions that you might need while interfacing a sensor or LCD are already implemented in UPM. 

Controller update:Quick controller and support for the FRDM-K64F

While the controller lets you control all the GPIOs, DACs and ADCs available on your platform, you might not be interested in controlling all of them at the same time. To over come this, you can now use an option called "QuickCtl". By using this option, you will be able to use condensed version of the controller app. Using this option allows you to pick the pins that you want to control.

Controller update:Quick controller and support for the FRDM-K64F

While the controller lets you control all the GPIOs, DACs and ADCs available on your platform, you might not be interested in controlling all of them at the same time. To over come this, you can now use an option called "QuickCtl". By using this option, you will be able to use condensed version of the controller app. Using this option allows you to pick the pins that you want to control.

Controller

This one is still related to the my previous posts. This time around, I have added features that I had promised in my earlier posts. The usage of the software remains mainly unchanged. What has changed is the way in which the firmware is written. The firmware now uses polymorphism to make it easier to adapt the communication frame work to different hardware platforms (The selected hardware platform should support C++ as a programming language to use this approach). The current implementation makes use of polymorphism at two different places
(a) For the implementation of the communication channel (UART/serial protocol in our case)
(b) For  implementing the functions required for accessing the digital and analog peripherals

Arduino controller - 2

 This blog post is continuation of the previous post. I have made some changes to the software on the host side. Most important among them is that now you can a have a configuration file that describes what ports on the board are available. One more change is that, as opposed to earlier, now you can select the serial port directly from the GUI rather than specifying it within a configuration file.
Here is a sample configuration file (for Arduino Duemilanove):