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Internet of Things Programming Projects

By : Colin Dow
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Internet of Things Programming Projects

By: Colin Dow

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IOT) has managed to attract the attention of researchers and tech enthusiasts, since it powerfully combines classical networks with instruments and devices. In Internet of Things Programming Projects, we unleash the power of Raspberry Pi and Python to create engaging projects. In the first part of the book, you’ll be introduced to the Raspberry Pi, learn how to set it up, and then jump right into Python programming. Then, you’ll dive into real-world computing by creating a“Hello World” app using flash LEDs. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll go back to an age when analog needle meters ruled the world of data display. You’ll learn to retrieve weather data from a web service and display it on an analog needle meter, and build a home security system using the Raspberry Pi. The next project has a modern twist, where we employ the Raspberry Pi to send a signal to a web service that will send you a text when someone is at the door. In the final project, you take what you've learned from the previous two projects and create an IoT robot car that you can use to monitor what your pets are up to when you are away. By the end of this book, you will be well versed in almost every possible way to make your IoT projects stand out.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Accessing weather data from the cloud

In Chapter 4, Subscribing to Web Services, we wrote a Python program to access weather data from Yahoo! Weather. The class, CurrentWeather, from that program returned the temperature, weather conditions, and wind speed for the city value that the class was instantiated with.

We will revisit that code and change the class name to WeatherData. We will also add a method to return a value from 0-100 to indicate the weather. We will take the temperature and wind speed into account when determining this number, with 0 being extreme winter-like conditions and 100 being very hot extreme summer conditions. We will use this number to control our servo. We will also check to see whether it is raining and update our LED to indicate whether or not we need an umbrella:

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