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Mastering IOT

By : Colin Dow, Perry Lea
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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

Building the robot car


The following are the steps to build T.A.R.A.S, our robot car. Your version of T.A.R.A.S may be built close to the one used in this book or you may make modifications as desired. For one thing, I am using a Raspberry Pi camera module with a longer lens (night-vision models have longer lenses). I am also using the Adafruit 16-Channel PWM/Servo HAT to drive the servos for the camera mount. You may choose to use another board or forgo the servos altogether and mount the camera in a fixed position.

Note

One of my favorite robot backronyms is Vincent from the 1980s Disney movie The Black Hole. Vincent, or more accurately, V.I.N.CENT, stands for Vital Information Necessary Centralized. If you know the movie, you will know that V.I.N.CENT is quite clever and very polite. V.I.N.CENT is also a bit of a know-it-all and can be a little irritating at times. 

I have included two different ways to mount the wheel motors: using a 3D printed wheel mount or using a laser cut wheel mount...