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Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By : Marco Schwartz
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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

Controlling your coffee machine from the cloud


In this first recipe of this chapter, we are going to learn how to control a coffee machine from anywhere in the world. Of course, it could be any other appliance, such as a lamp or an oven. We are going to see how to connect the coffee machine to the Arduino MKR1000 board, and then how to connect the board to a cloud dashboard so it can easily be controlled remotely.

Getting ready

Let's first see how to connect the Arduino board to the coffee machine, or to any home appliance.

To do that, we are going to use a component called the PowerSwitch Tail, which can be used to control any appliance with Arduino. You can get this component from http://www.powerswitchtail.com/Pages/default.aspx.

You could, of course, also use a simple relay, but using the PowerSwitch Tail is much safer to connect electrical devices.

To connect the PowerSwitch Tail to Arduino, simply start by connecting the Vin+ pin of the PowerSwitch to Arduino pin 6, and then the two remaining...