Follmann R. - Banana Pro Blueprints

[ 1 ] Banana Pro Blueprints Leverage the capabilities of Banana Pro with exciting real-world projects Ruediger FollmannTony Zhang BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Banana Pro Blueprints Copyright 2015 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the authors, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals.

However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: December 2015 Production reference: 1211215 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK. ISBN 978-1-78355-238-2 www.packtpub.com Credits AuthorsProject Coordinator Ruediger Follmann Izzat Contractor Tony Zhang ProofreaderReviewers Safis Editing Lalith Gallage Nikolaos Margaris Indexer Paul Mundt Hemangini Bari Rob Seder Graphics Disha Haria Commissioning Editor Edward Bowkett Production Coordinator Conidon Miranda Acquisition Editor Meeta Rajani Cover Work Conidon Miranda Content Development Editor Anish Sukumaran Technical Editor Chinmay S. Puranik Copy Editor Sonia Michelle Cheema About the Authors Ruediger Follmann was born in 1968 in Germany. He studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen, Germany, and received his PhD from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

He has worked for IMST GmbH, Germany, for more than 20 years, where he heads the RF circuits and system integration department. IMST is a design and development company with more than 170 employees. He uses embedded boards in many different projects, for example, in order to control MMICs or hybrid electronics. Follmann is the author of many technical articles as well as DasRaspberry Pi Kompendium, Springer. Tony Zhang was born in 1990 in China. He studied control science and engineering at HIT, China, and received his master's degree in 2015.

Since 2014, Tony has been working with LeMaker community, where he is the cofounder and is heading the R&D department. About the Reviewers Lalith Gallage is a charted IT professional with more than 12 years of experience in information communication technology, including embedded control designing, industrial automation, and CMS (SharePoint Server, Joomla, sensenet, Umbraco, and Odoo) customization. He has published several articles on the CodeProject website (http://www.codeproject.com/) and enjoys writing in his free time. He is currently working at Sri Lanka Telecom and is a guest lecturer at many leading institutes in Sri Lanka in the fields of microcontroller and C# programming. In his free time, he likes to relax in his aquaponic garden. He has expertise in several known languages, such as C++, C#, Python, PLSQL, PHP, and ASP.NET.

He is also proficient in certain hardware platforms such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Banana Pi, Rabbit, and PIC. His professional qualifications include a masters degree in IT from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, BIT from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, national diploma in engineering sciences (electronics and telecommunication) from Sri Lanka, and CITP from the UK. Nikolaos Margaris currently works as a senior frontend developer on a collaboration and communication software that uses AngularJS and NodeJS. He enjoys clean and performant JavaScript code and tests it too. In his spare time, he likes reading about new technologies and wandering through the IoT world. Good music and some retro PC/console games have always added flavor to his life.

Reviewing this book was an enjoyable experience for him, and he hopes to come across more opportunities like this one. You can find out more about him at http://www.nikolaosmargaris.gr/. All thanks to my soul mate, Vaya. Her love and patience gives meaning to my life. Paul Mundt is the founder and managing director of Adaptant Solutions AG, a software and solutions company focused on providing adaptable technologies and solutions needed to enable cross-sectorial data utilization and exploration in an evolving data regulation and compliance landscape. Previously, Paul was the CTO of OS & Virtualization, and director of the system software department at Huawei's European Research Center, leading an R&D department responsible for the future OS and virtualization strategy and architecture, focusing on the areas of heterogeneous systems, convergence of Cloud and HPC, and the future data center architectures.

Earlier, at Renesas, he was responsible for establishing both the initial open source strategy and vision, while leading the organization to consistently become one among the top 10 contributors to the Linux kernel, resulting in wide-reaching system software and IP consolidation across a diverse MPU/MCU product portfolio. He has more than 15 years of experience in both Linux kernel development and technology management across a diverse range of domains (HPC, embedded, enterprise, and carrier grade). He has also previously worked for Nokia, TimeSys, and MontaVista in various technical and leadership positions. Rob Seder has been involved in information technology for over 20 years. He has been a technophile and geek from an early age. His day job primarily involves working on Microsoft .NET technologies, but he also invests heavily in Linux, Mac, IoT, automation, 3D printing, and other interesting infrastructures or development technologies.

Rob has mostly worked in financial and insurance industries over the years, and he enjoys keeping himself up to date with the most current technologies that are available. You can find Rob's blog at http://blog.robseder.com or contact him at @RobSeder on Twitter. www.PacktPub.com Support files, eBooks, discount offers,and more For support files and downloads related to your book, please visit www.PacktPub.com. Did you know that Packt offers eBook versions of every book published, with PDF and ePub files available? You can upgrade to the eBook version at www.PacktPub.com and as a print book customer, you are entitled to a discount on the eBook copy. Get in touch with us at service@packtpub.com for more details. At www.PacktPub.com, you can also read a collection of free technical articles, sign up for a range of free newsletters and receive exclusive discounts and offers on Packt books and eBooks.

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