Ladies and Gents I am totally new to BeagleBone and the other controllers but have experience with PLCs, ladder logic and instrumentation from 25 years as Industrial Electrical Fitter.
Am learn by doing and prefer to dive into to learning through a desire to complete a practical project. Hence I am , intitially after some pre-concept assistance on my first project. I want to build a eight to ten channel MOSFET switching module to control lighting and other accessories in a four wheel drive. The module would be located in the rear tub/canopy area of a ute/pick-up. I want to control the switching via a Touch screen mounted on the dashboard within reach of the driver. I would also like the switching module to have connection for two-to-four analog input channels in the future. I want the touchscreen physically "wired" to the switching module; HDMI? And when as my skills grow I would like to get a BlueTooth App to control the switching via a smarts phone. After some research a BeagleBone looks, to me to be the best option as it has low power consumption. Am I heading in the right direction and which BeagleBone should I use? Would I be taking the best approach by sourcing the BB and the Touchscreen and then building the graphics and getting the programming right to carry out the output switching and recieveing the inputs (all via breadboard and simple LED etc) before moving to connection to the MOSFET output and analog input boards? What programming language should I be looking at using? Thanks in advance. And I'm sure this will be the first of many questions? Dave -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/cb3837d5-3e84-468b-8b8c-5e217eeb53a1o%40googlegroups.com.
