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Web Page on the SBC

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Revision as of 17:46, 19 March 2012 by Cora (talk | contribs) (→‎Phidgets)

The project described here creates a website hosted on the Phidget Single Board Computer (SBC). The website can both serve static pages, as well as pages that can send simple requests back and forth to the Phidgets attached to the SBC.

With this kind of system, you only need to develop cross-browser compatible web pages, as the code to control the Phidget runs on the SBC.

Practical concepts covered are (click on links to see other projects on that topic):  


As with any of our described projects, Phidgets takes care of the electrical component design. This is a middle-ground solution to controlling Phidgets over a network using the SBC.

  • If you just want data to go back and forth between Phidgets and your computer - via the SBC - over the network, you probably want the simple example in the Use Phidgets Wirelessly with the SBC guide.
  • If you want something more powerful and flexible than the CGI in this guide to control Phidgets over a network, you may be interested in the full Web Server on the SBC guide.

Time: A few hours

Special Needed Tools: A Phidget SBC, Ethernet and power cords (or Wireless), an LED, and your computer.

You should also have:


Introduction

The SBC already runs a web server, with the pages to be served located in the /var/www directory. We take advantage of this by creating a web page using a cgi-bin Python script. Since the script is in Python, it can also control any attached Phidgets, including the Interface Kit on the SBC.

The flow of the system we will build looks like this:

Phidgets

For this, you will need:

  • A 1072 0 - PhidgetSBC2, set up as per the 1072 - Getting Started guide
    • This is the SBC that this guide used; others will probably work fine as well
  • An LED, such as one of the ones from Phidgets (many part numbers starting at 3600), attached to digital output port 0 (long wire) and ground (short wire)

Code

Putting it All Together

Extra Credit