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Mastering IOT

By : Colin Dow, Perry Lea
Book Image

Mastering IOT

By: Colin Dow, Perry Lea

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. We’ll begin our journey with an introduction to Raspberry Pi and quickly jump right into Python programming. We’ll learn all concepts through multiple projects, and then reinforce our learnings by creating an IoT robot car. We’ll examine modern sensor systems and focus on what their power and functionality can bring to our system. We’ll also gain insight into cloud and fog architectures, including the OpenFog standards. The Learning Path will conclude by discussing three forms of prevalent attacks and ways to improve the security of our IoT infrastructure. By the end of this Learning Path, we will have traversed the entire spectrum of technologies needed to build a successful IoT system, and will have the confidence to build, secure, and monitor our IoT infrastructure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Internet of Things Programming Projects by Colin Dow Internet of Things for Architects by Perry Lea
Table of Contents (34 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The IoT Story
Index

Enhancing our project


With our code out of the way, it's now time to add a physical backdrop to our servo. With this backdrop, we bring the IoT to life for our weather data. Our dashboard will recommend which wardrobe item we should wear based on the weather.

Printing out the main graphic

The following is the graphic we will be using for our backdrop:

Using a color printer, print out the graphic on printable vinyl (this image file is available from our GitHub repository). Cut out the holes under the umbrella and main graphic.

To add support, cut out the back plate on hard card stock with a cutter or by hand with scissors:

Peel the backdrop off of the printable vinyl sheet and stick it to the backplate. Use the holes to align the backdrop with the back plates:

Adding the needle and LED

Insert the LED into the hole under the umbrella:

Insert the hub of the servo motor through the other hole. Use double-sided foam tape to secure the servo to the backplate if necessary:

Wire up the LED and servo to the...