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DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists

DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists

By : Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz, Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla
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DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists

DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists

4.5 (17)
By: Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz, Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla

Overview of this book

We live in a world surrounded by electronic devices, and microcontrollers are the brains of these devices. Microcontroller programming is an essential skill in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), and this book helps you to get up to speed with it by working through projects for designing and developing embedded apps with microcontroller boards. DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists are filled with microcontroller programming C and C++ language constructs. You'll discover how to use the Blue Pill (containing a type of STM32 microcontroller) and Curiosity Nano (containing a type of PIC microcontroller) boards for executing your projects as PIC is a beginner-level board and STM-32 is an ARM Cortex-based board. Later, you'll explore the fundamentals of digital electronics and microcontroller board programming. The book uses examples such as measuring humidity and temperature in an environment to help you gain hands-on project experience. You'll build on your knowledge as you create IoT projects by applying more complex sensors. Finally, you'll find out how to plan for a microcontroller-based project and troubleshoot it. By the end of this book, you'll have developed a firm foundation in electronics and practical PIC and STM32 microcontroller programming and interfacing, adding valuable skills to your professional portfolio.
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Introducing push buttons

A push button is an electronic device that basically acts like a mechanical switch; it can be used for either closing or opening an electrical or electronic circuit. They are also called momentary push buttons, or pushbuttons. Push buttons are made with hard materials such as plastic and have a tiny metal spring inside that makes contact with two wires or contacts, allowing electricity to flow through them if the button is pressed (in normally open push buttons) or when it is depressed (in normally closed push buttons). When the push button is off, the spring retracts, the electrical contact is interrupted, and electrical current will not flow through the contacts. Push buttons are useful for manually controlling or initializing a process in an electrical or electronic circuit, including applications that contain microcontroller boards. The following image shows a normally closed (left) and a normally open (right) push button:

Figure 3.1 – Normally closed (left) and normally open (right) push buttons

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