Summary

So here we are at the end of this chapter. In this chapter, you have learned how to boot your BeagleBone board from a different operating system on microSD card and then log in to it and start coding in Python to run a routine and make decisions. Using this knowledge, we will see how to make an LED blink which is connected to any GPIO pin on the GPIO headers of the BeagleBone board and how to read the switch button status using python code in the next few chapters. But before that, we will look at fundamentals of Basic Electronics in the next chapter.

On an extra note, you can take this chapter to another level by trying out a little more by connecting your BeagleBone board to an HDMI monitor using a microHDMI cable and connecting a USB Keyboard and Mouse to the USB Host of the BeagleBone board and power the monitor and BeagleBone board using external power supply and boot it from microSD Card and you should be able to see some GUI and you will be able to use the BeagleBone board like a normal Linux computer. You will be able access the files, manage them, and use Shell Terminal on the GUI also. If you own BeagleBone Black or BeagleBone Green, you can try out to flash the onboard eMMC using the latest Debian operating system and try out the same thing that we did using the operating system booted from microSD card.