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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

Posting updates on Facebook


In this recipe, we are going to learn how to use Temboo again, this time to post an update on your Facebook feed.

Getting ready

  1. The first step is to create a Facebook application. To do so, go to https://developers.facebook.com/.

  2. You will then be able to name your app:

  3. Then you need to add the following line inside the settings of your app, replacing account_name with the name of your Temboo account:

  4. Now we need to authorize the use of this application by the Temboo servers. To do so, visit https://temboo.com/library/Library/Facebook/OAuth/InitializeOAuth/.

  5. Here you will need to insert the application ID, which can be found on the Facebook app page:

  6. Once that's done, you will need to visit a URL to authorize the app:

  7. Finally, after following all the steps from the Temboo website, you will be given your access token that will be used by the Arduino board to post on Facebook:

How to do it...

For the rest of this recipe, we'll use the Choreo at https://temboo.com/library/Library...