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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

Storing data on Google Drive


In this last recipe of this chapter, we are going to see how to use our Arduino board and IFTTT to log measured data right on a Google Drive spreadsheet, so it can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

Getting ready

Before building this recipe, we need to connect the Google Drive channel to your account:

  1. You will simply need to log in to your Google account from IFTTT, authorize the app, and then you'll be able to see the Google Drive channel inside your IFTTT account:

  2. Now, create a new recipe, use the Maker channel as the trigger, and name the event google_data:

  3. As the action channel, choose Google Drive, and then select the Add row to spreadsheet action:

  4. Next, leave it as it is for the row to be appended to the spreadsheet, as it already contains all the data that we want to log:

  5. Finally, create the recipe, and check that it is activated.

How to do it...

We are now going to configure our Arduino board for this project. Again, as it is really similar to the last recipe...