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Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By : Marco Schwartz
Book Image

Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

Arduino is a powerful and very versatile platform used by millions of people around the world to create DIY electronics projects. It can be connected to a wide variety of sensors and other components, making it the ideal platform to build amazing Internet of Things (IoT) projects on—the next wave in the era of computing. This book takes a recipe-based approach, giving you precise examples on how to build IoT projects of all types using the Arduino platform. You will come across projects from several fields, including the popular robotics and home automation domains. Along with being introduced to several forms of interactions within IoT, including projects that directly interact with well-known web services such as Twitter, Facebook, and Dropbox we will also focus on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interactions, where Arduino projects interact without any human intervention. You will learn to build a few quick and easy-to-make fun projects that will really expand your horizons in the world of IoT and Arduino. Each chapter ends with a troubleshooting recipe that will help you overcome any problems faced while building these projects. By the end of this book, you will not only know how to build these projects, but also have the skills necessary to build your own IoT projects in the future.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Automated sprinkler controller


For the last recipe of the chapter, we are going to see how to make a cool project to automate your garden: an automated sprinkler controller that also works via the cloud. We'll have two Arduino boards communicating with each other: a first board to measure the soil moisture, and a second one to control a pump to water the plants or anything else in your garden.

Getting ready

The project will be composed of two parts again. The first part will simply be an Arduino MKR1000 board, along with a moisture sensor based on the SHT10 sensor. The second part of the project will be a simple Arduino board as well, connected to a relay. The relay can then be used to control a little pump or sprinkler that you already have.

This is the list of components that are required for this recipe:

Let's now assemble the project...