Christopher Rush - Programming the Intel Galileo: Getting Started with the Arduino -Compatible Development Board

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Christopher Rush has a degree in computer science and has spent the last 10 years working for an electronics distribution company as a product manager for single-board computing. He is the author of 30 BeagleBone Black Projects for the Evil Genius and Programming the Photon: Getting Started with the Internet of Things , both also published by McGraw-Hill Education.

This book is the perfect introduction to programming the Intel Galileo development board. The Galileo was Intels first development board aimed for the maker market and based around their own Intel Quark SoC. With built-in Internet of Things capabilities, this board unleashes the powerful hardware expanding its capabilities to Internet-connected hardware.

The Intel Galileo is fully compatible with the Arduino-style programming language while also introducing its own libraries and features for connectivity. The board itself comes with the Arduino footprint for connecting Arduino-compatible hardware such as shields. On its own the board doesnt really do much, but once you learn how to connect hardware it is fully capable of acting as the brain of your projects, controlling things and sending data to cloud services using the on-board Linux.

This book presents you examples using the popular Grove system by Seeed-Studio, which allows you to interconnect hardware without the worries and frustration of dealing with circuits and soldering. Most of the examples use the parts commonly found in the Intel Galileo Grove Starter Kit.

The purpose of this book is to get you started with creating your own hardware projects with the Intel Galileo. You do not need any previous experience with circuits or programming, but general computer skills would be highly advantageous. Programming the IntelGalileo is written to give you a wide variety of experience and a basic understanding of the capabilities of the Intel Galileo board. This book only covers the basics of how to program the board, the assumption being that you will then expand those skills to create your own exciting projects.

I would love to hear your thoughts and comments regarding this book, so I encourage you to contact me through www.rushmakes.com or on Twitter @rushmakes. You can download all the example code from the McGraw-Hill website www.mhprofessional.com/intelgalileo or through my GitHub, https://github.com/ChristopherRush/Programming-the-Intel-Galileo .

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The Intel Galileo Gen 2 is a board based on the Intel Quark System-on-Chip (SoC) X1000, a 32-bit Intel Pentium processor system, operating at speeds up to 400 MHz. This Quark system is capable of supporting the Yocto 1.4 Linux distribution that opens up further capabilities to the Intel Galileo board.

The board itself has a built-in Ethernet socket with additional support for Power over Ethernet (PoE), a Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 host port for adding USB devices, a micro-SD slot for memory expansion, a mini PCI express (mPCIe) card slot, 20 digital input/output pins (six PWM outputs with 8/12-bit resolution and six analog inputs with 12-bit resolution), a micro-USB connection for USB client programming, an ICSP header, a JTag header, and two reset tactile buttons, all of which you can see in .

Figure 1.1Intel Galileo Gen 2 hardware features .

The Intel Galileo Gen 2 board also features an integrated real-time clock (RTC), with an optional 3-V coin cell battery for operation between turn-on cycles of the board.