The BeagleY-AI Handbook
A Practical Guide to AI, Python, and Hardware Projects
Dogan Ibrahim und Ahmet Ibrahim
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Dogan Ibrahim, Ahmet Ibrahim, The BeagleY-AI Handbook (2025), Elektor, Aachen, ISBN: 9783895766572
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Beschreibung / Abstract
Welcome to your BeagleY-AI journey! This compact, powerful, and affordable single-board computer is perfect for developers and hobbyists. With its dedicated 4 TOPS AI co-processor and a 1.4 GHz Quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU, the BeagleY-AI is equipped to handle both AI applications and real-time I/O tasks. Powered by the Texas Instruments AM67A processor, it offers DSPs, a 3D graphics unit, and video accelerators.
Inside this handbook, you‘ll find over 50 hands-on projects that cover a wide range of topics—from basic circuits with LEDs and sensors to an AI-driven project. Each project is written in Python 3 and includes detailed explanations and full program listings to guide you. Whether you‘re a beginner or more advanced, you can follow these projects as they are or modify them to fit your own creative ideas.
Here’s a glimpse of some exciting projects included in this handbook:
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Morse Code Exerciser with LED or Buzzer
Type a message and watch it come to life as an LED or buzzer translates your text into Morse code. -
Ultrasonic Distance Measurement
Use an ultrasonic sensor to measure distances and display the result in real time. -
Environmental Data Display & Visualization
Collect temperature, pressure, and humidity readings from the BME280 sensor, and display or plot them on a graphical interface. -
SPI – Voltmeter with ADC
Learn how to measure voltage using an external ADC and display the results on your BeagleY-AI. -
GPS Coordinates Display
Track your location with a GPS module and view geographic coordinates on your screen. -
BeagleY-AI and Raspberry Pi 4 Communication
Discover how to make your BeagleY-AI and Raspberry Pi communicate over a serial link and exchange data. -
AI-Driven Object Detection with TensorFlow Lite
Set up and run an object detection model using TensorFlow Lite on the BeagleY-AI platform, with complete hardware and software details provided.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- The BeagleY-AI Handbook
- All rights reserved
- Contents
- 1 • Introduction
- 1.1 The BeagleY-AI Single Board Computer (SBC)
- 1.2 BeagleY-AI Features
- 1.3 BeagleY-AI Board Component Layout
- 1.4 Comparison with the Raspberry Pi 5
- 1.5 Pros and Cons
- 2 • Installing the Operating System
- 2.1 Overview
- 2.2 The Installation of the Operating System
- 2.3 Connection to a Wi-Fi
- 2.4 Accessing Your BeagleY-AI Console from Your PC – The PuTTY Program
- 2.5 BeagleY-AI CPU Temperature
- 3 • Using the Console Commands
- 3.1 Overview
- 3.2 The Command Prompt
- 3.3 Useful Console Commands
- 4 • GUI Desktop Applications
- 4.1 Overview
- 4.2 The GUI Desktop
- 5 • Using a Text Editor in Console Mode
- 5.1 Overview
- 5.2 The nano Text Editor
- 5.3 The vi Text Editor
- 5.4 Using Thonny
- 5.5 The gedit Text Editor
- 6 • Creating and Running a Python Program
- 6.1 Overview
- 6.2 Method 1 – Interactively from Command Prompt in Console Mode
- 6.3 Method 2 – Create a Python File in Console Mode
- 6.4 Method 3 – Create a Python File in GUI Desktop Mode
- 6.5 Which Method?
- 7 • Python Programming and Simple Programs
- 7.1 Overview
- 7.2 Variable Names
- 7.3 Reserved Words
- 7.4 Comments
- 7.5 Line Continuation
- 7.6 Blank Lines
- 7.7 More Than One statement on a Line
- 7.8 Indentation
- 7.9 Python Data Types
- 7.10 Numbers
- 7.11 Strings
- 7.12 Print Statement
- 7.13 List Variables
- 7.14 Tuple Variables
- 7.15 Dictionary Variables
- 7.16 Keyboard Input
- 7.17 Comparison Operators
- 7.18 Logical Operators
- 7.19 Assignment Operators
- 7.20 Control of Flow
- 7.21 Example 1 – 4 Band Resistor Color Code Identifier
- 7.22 Example 2 – Series or Parallel Resistors
- 7.23 Example 3 - Resistive Potential Divider
- 7.24 Trigonometric Functions
- 7.25 User Defined Functions
- 7.26 Examples
- 7.27 Recursive Functions
- 7.28 Exceptions
- 7.29 try/final Exceptions
- 7.30 Date and Time
- 7.31 Creating Your Own Modules
- 8 • BeagleY-AI LED Projects
- 8.1 Overview
- 8.2 BeagleY-AI GPIO pin Definitions
- 8.3 Project 1 – Flashing an LED
- 8.4 Project 2 – Alternately Flashing LEDs
- 8.5 Project 3 – Binary Counting with 8 LEDs
- 8.6 Project 4 – Christmas Lights (Random Flashing 8 LEDs)
- 8.7 Project 5 – Chasing LEDs
- 8.8 Project 6 – Rotating LEDs with Pushbutton Switch
- 8.9 Project 7 – Morse Code Exerciser with LED or Buzzer
- 8.10 Project 8 – Electronic Dice
- 8.11 Project 9 – Varying the LED Flashing Rate
- 9 • Using an I2C LCD
- 9.1 Overview
- 9.2 The I2C Bus
- 9.3 I2C Pins of BeagleY-AI
- 9.4 Project 1 – Using an I2C LCD – Seconds Counter
- 9.5 Project 2 – Using an I2C LCD – Display Time
- 9.6 Project 3 – Using an I2C LCD – Display the IP address of BeagleY-AI
- 9.7 Project 4 – Reaction Timer – Output to Screen
- 9.8 Project 5 – Reaction Timer – Output to LCD
- 9.9 Project 6 – Automatic Dusk Lights
- 9.10 Project 7 – Ultrasonic Distance Measurement
- 9.11 Project 8 – Car Parking Sensors
- 10 • Plotting Graphs With Python and BeagleY-AI
- 10.1 Overview
- 10.2 The Matplotlib Graph Plotting Library
- 10.3 Project 1 – RC Transient Circuit Analysis - Charging
- 10.4 Project 2 – RC Transient Circuit Analysis - Discharging
- 10.5 Transient RL Circuits
- 10.6 Project 3 – RCL Transient Circuit Analysis
- 10.7 Project 4 – Temperature, Pressure, and Humidity Measurement – Display on the Screen
- 10.8 Project 5 – Temperature, Pressure, and Humidity Measurement – Plotting the Data
- 11 • Using a 4 x 4 Keypad
- 11.1 Overview
- 11.2 Project 1 – Using a 4x4 Keypad
- 11.3 Project 2 – Security Lock with Keypad and LCD
- 12 • I2C, SPI Bus, and PWM Projects
- 12.1 Overview
- 12.2 Project 1 - I2C Port Expander
- 12.3 Project 2 - SPI ADC - Voltmeter
- 12.4 Project 3 – Voltmeter – Output to LCD
- 12.5 Project 4 – Analog Temperature Sensor Thermometer – Output to the Screen
- 12.6 Project 5 – Analog Temperature Sensor Thermometer – Output on LCD
- 12.7 Using a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC)
- 12.8 Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
- 13 • Communication Over the Wi-Fi
- 13.1 Overview
- 13.2 UDP and TCP
- 13.3 Project 1 – Sending a Text Message to a Smartphone Using TCP
- 13.4 Project 2 – Two-way Communication with the Smartphone Using TCP
- 13.5 Project 3 – Communicating with a PC Using TCP
- 13.6 Project 4 – Controlling an LED Connected to BeagleY-AI from a Smartphone Using TCP
- 13.7 Project 5 – Sending a Text Message to a Smartphone Using UDP
- 13.8 Project 6 – Controlling an LED Connected to BeagleY-AI from a Smartphone Using UDP
- 13.9 Communicating with the Raspberry Pi Pico W over Wi-Fi
- 13.10 Project 8 - Storing Ambient Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure Data on the Cloud
- 13.11 Using Flask to Create a Web Server to Control BeagleY-AI GPIO Ports from the Internet
- 13.12 Project 9 – Web Server - Controlling an LED Connected to BeagleY-AI Using the Flask
- 14 • Using Serial Communication
- 14.1 Overview
- 14.2 USB – TTL Serial Conversion Modules
- 14.3 BeagleY-AI and PC Communication Over Serial Port – Testing the Hardware and Software Configurations
- 14.4 Project 1 – BeagleY-AI – PC Two-Way Communication Over Serial Port – Using Python
- 14.5 Reading Geographical Coordinates – Using a GPS
- 15 • Real Time Clock (RTC)
- 15.1 Overview
- 15.2 The Hardware
- 15.3 Setting the RTC Time
- 16 • Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the BeagleY-AI
- 16.1 Overview
- 16.2 BeagleY-AI Detailed Hardware Specifications
- 16.3 Project 1 - BeagleY-AI TensorFlow Lite Object Detection
- 16.4 BeagleY-AI ChatGPT
- 16.5 BeagleY-AI Smart Assistant
- 16.6 BeagleY-AI Robotics
- 16.7 BeagleY-AI Machine Learning
- 17 • Useful Websites
- Index