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Internet of Things with Intel Galileo

By : Miguel de Sousa, Ricardo Miguel F de Sousa
Book Image

Internet of Things with Intel Galileo

By: Miguel de Sousa, Ricardo Miguel F de Sousa

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Internet of Things with Intel Galileo
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Required component


For this project, besides the Intel Galileo board, power supply unit, and the Grove base shield, you'll need the following components:

  • Grove LCD RGB Backlight: It is a part of the Grove Starter Kit Plus, and is a 16 x 2 LCD screen. It brings more functionalities than most typical LCD screens. Besides allowing us to print two rows of 16 characters at most, the backlight can also be RGB customizable.

    Grove LCD RGB Backlight

    It also supports user-defined characters and communicates using the I2C protocol (https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/i2c) through only two IOs.

    Note

    You can find more details about this component at http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/Grove-LCD-RGB-Backlight-p-1643.html.

  • Grove Buzzer: This is the same buzzer we used in the previous chapter. It is also a part of the Grove Starter Kit Plus.

    Grove Buzzer

    It can be connected to a digital output to simply emit sound, or it can be connected to a PWM output and play different tones.

    Note

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