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Intel Edison Projects

By : Basu

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Intel Edison Projects

By: Basu

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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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Setting up Intel Edison

Initial hardware setup

Arduino IDE

Intel XDK for IoT (Node.js)

Summary

Weather Station (IoT)

Overview of IoT and its usage

Open-ended task for the reader

Summary

Intel Edison and IoT (Home Automation)

Controlling devices using the Internet - concepts

REST services

Instructions or alerts (present on most IoT platforms)

Architecture

Using Intel Edison to push data by using the MQTT protocol

Getting data to Edison by using MQTT

Home automation using Intel Edison, MQTT, Android, and WPF

Android application for controlling Intel Edison using MQTT

Windows Presentation Foundation application for controlling using MQTT

Open-ended task for the reader

Summary

Intel Edison and Security System

Speech/voice processing using Edison

Door lock/unlock based on voice commands

Image processing using the Intel Edison

Real-time video display using OpenCV

Face detection theory

Intel Edison code

Open-ended task for the reader

Summary

Autonomous Robotics with Intel Edison

Architecture of a typical robotic system

Intel Edison as a controller

Connecting sensors to the Intel Edison

Actuators - DC motors and servos

More advanced motor drivers

Line follower robot (patching everything together)

Proportional integral derivative - based control

Open-ended question for the reader

Summary

Manual Robotics with Intel Edison

Manual robotic system

Chassis in robotics: 2WD and 4WD

Making the system wireless

WPF application for LED on and off

High performance motor driver sample with code

4WD UGV (black-e-track)

Universal robot controller for UGV

Open-ended question for the reader

Summary

Intel Edison and IoT (Home Automation)

In Chapter 2, Weather Station (IoT), we dealt with transferring data from Edison to the cloud platform. Here, in this chapter, we'll be doing just the opposite. We'll be controlling devices using the Internet. When we talk about IoT, the first thing that usually comes to mind is home automation. Home automation is basically controlling and monitoring home electrical appliances using an interface, which may be a mobile application, a web interface, a wall touch unit, or more simply, your own voice. So, here in this chapter, we'll be dealing with the various concepts of home automation using the MQTT protocol; then, we'll be controlling an electrical load with an Android application and a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application using the MQTT protocol. Some of the topics that we will discuss are: