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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 the code


It's a cold, dark, and dreary December night. Not much is known about our adversaries, but we do know that they like to dance. T.A.R.A.S has been assigned to a local dance club located deep into enemy territory. All of the persons of interest are there on this night. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a program to have T.A.R.A.S take secret photos at the club. However, it must not look like T.A.R.A.S is taking photos. T.A.R.A.S has to dance! If our adversaries found out that T.A.R.A.S was taking photos, that would be bad. Really bad! Think C3PO in the Empire Strikes Back bad.

Stitching our code together

So, we have the ability to make T.A.R.A.S move its head and body, make sounds, light up, and take pictures. Let's put all of this together so that we may complete the mission:

  1. Open up Thonny from Application Menu | Programming | Thonny Python IDE
  2. Click on the New icon to create a new file
  3. Type the following into the file:
from RobotWheels import RobotWheels...