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Intel Edison Projects

By : Avirup Basu
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Intel Edison Projects

By: Avirup Basu

Overview of this book

Change the way you look at embedded electronics with Intel Edison. It is a small computing platform packed with a set of robust features to deliver hands-on performance, durability, and software support. This book is a perfect place to kickstart development and rapid prototyping using Intel Edison. It will start by introducing readers to the Intel Edison board and explaining how to get started with it. You will learn how to build a mini weather station, which will help you to acquire temperature and smoke level and push it to the IoT platform. Then you will see how to build a home automation device and control your appliances using an Android app. Furthermore, we will build a security system using a webcam to detect faces and perform voice recognition. Toward the end, the book will demonstrate how you can build two robots, which will be based on different line sensing sensors and can be controlled by a PC. The book will guide the readers through each and every step of execution of a project, using Intel Edison.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Summary

We have come to the end of the chapter as well as to the end of the book. In this chapter, we had a chance to have a look at some in-depth concepts of manual robotics and UGVs. We developed our own software for robot controlling. We also learned how to make our robots wireless and the ways to access multiple serial ports. Finally, we controlled our robot using our own controller. In Chapter 3, Intel Edison and IoT (Home Automation), we have learned how to control the Edison using an Android app with the MQTT protocol. That technique can also be used to control a robot by using the mraa library.

The entire book has covered multiple topics related to Intel Edison. Now it's your job to use the concepts discussed to come up with new projects and explore even further. The last two chapters purely concentrated on robotics based on Intel Edison, but these concepts may be applied to other devices, such as an...