Bad to the Bone: Crafting Electronics Systems with BeagleBone

BeagleBone is a low cost, open hardware computer first introduced in November 2011 by BeagleBoard.org, a community of developers sponsored by Texas Instruments. Various BeagleBone variants hosts a powerful 32-bit, super-scalar ARM Cortex A8 processor operating from 720 MHz to 1 GHz. Yet, the BeagleBone is small enough to fit in an Altoids mint tin box. The "Bone" may be used in a wide variety of projects from middle school science fair projects to senior design projects to first prototypes of…