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Intel Edison Projects

By : Avirup Basu
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Intel Edison Projects

By: Avirup Basu

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.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

int a = analogRead(tempPin ); float R = 1023.0/((float)a)-1.0;
R = 100000.0*R;

float temperature=1.0/(log(R/100000.0)/B+1/298.15)-273.15; Serial.print("temperature = "); Serial.println(temperature);
delay(500);

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

string res = textBox.Text; if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(res))
{
MessageBox.Show("No text entered. Please enter again");
}
else
{
textBlock.Text = res;

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

npm install mqtt

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "After you click on OK, the tool will automatically unzip the file."

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.