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Internet of Things with the Arduino Yún

By : Marco Schwartz
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Internet of Things with the Arduino Yún

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

<p>Internet of Things (IoT) is currently a growing trend in the technology space, and the Arduino Yún is the perfect board to get started with building IoT projects. This book covers many of the powerful features of the Arduino Yún via four exciting projects. The first project is all about sending weather measurements data to a Google Docs spreadsheet for easy online visualization. The second one is about building an energy consumption meter and controlling devices remotely. The third focuses on the field of security, by helping you to build a camera that is triggered by motion and that uploads pictures automatically to Dropbox. Finally, the last project is in relation with the field of robotics, and focuses on building a robot that is controlled via Wi-Fi. <br /><br />The main focus of this book is to teach everything you need to know to build complex projects using the Arduino Yún, organized around the fields of home automation, security, and robotics.</p>
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Robot assembly


It's now time to assemble the robot. We will show you the steps you need to follow on the robot kit we used for this project, but they can be applied to any other equivalent robot kit. The first step is to put the battery at the base of the robot, as shown in the following image:

Note that some metal spacers were also used at the base of the robot to maintain the battery in place and to provide support for the rest of the components. These spacers can also be found on the DFRobot website. Then, you can screw on two more spacers and the Arduino Yún board to the top of the chassis, as shown in the following image:

Then, we added the Arduino Uno compatible board on top of the two metallic spacers. At this point, you can screw on the Arduino Uno board; all the other components will just be plugged into these boards, as shown in the following image:

Then, you can simply plug the motor shield on top of the Arduino Uno board. At this point, you can also connect the cables that come...