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DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists

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

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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Coding the SOS Morse code signal

This section describes the code necessary for turning the LED for showing the SOS Morse signal, which runs on the Blue Pill board, on and off. The following code shows the main functions used for defining the SOS Morse code message and for sending it to the board's output port. The next code segment defines the necessary dot, dash, and space values, as well as the port label:

int led=PB12;
int dot_duration=150; 
int dash_duration=dot_duration*3; 
int shortspace_duration=dot_duration; 
int space_duration=dot_duration*7;

The next function sets up the output port (B12) for turning the LED on and off:

void setup() {
       pinMode (led,OUTPUT);
} 

These functions define the letter S and O to be used in the SOS message:

void S() {
          dot();
          dot();
      &...