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M5Stack Electronic Blueprints

By : Don Wilcher
Book Image

M5Stack Electronic Blueprints

By: Don Wilcher

Overview of this book

As an embedded systems developer or an IoT developer, you can often face challenges in maintaining focus on prototyping a product concept while using a specific high-level programming language for implementation. To overcome these challenges, the M5Stack Core platform uses an ESP32 microcontroller and block code that allows you to focus on product creation and application instead of the high-level programming language. M5Stack Electronics Blueprints presents various design and prototyping approaches as well as UI layout and electronics interfacing techniques that will help you to become skilled in developing useful products effectively. This book takes you through a hands-on journey for a better understanding of the ESP32 microcontroller and the M5Stack Core's architecture. You’ll delve into M5Stack Core topics such as electronic units, light, sound, motion devices, interfacing circuits, SNAP circuit kits, Arduino applications, and building Bluetooth and Wi-Fi IoT devices. Further, you’ll explore various M5Stack core applications using a project-based learning method, including the fascinating 32-bit microcontroller device technology. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and build interactive, portable electronic controllers, IoT, and wearable devices using the M5Stack Core.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1: M5Stack Electronics Hardware Architecture
5
Part 2: M5Stack Electronic Interfacing Circuit Projects
9
Part 3: M5Stack IoT Projects

UiFlow BLE coding blocks pallet overview

The BLE coding blocks within the UiFlow software align with the universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART) operation domain. A UART is a microelectronics device capable of providing asynchronous serial communication with a configurable data format and transmission speeds. The method of formatting the communication data is through a parallel-serial conversion process provided by the UART. The UART transmits the communication data serially to a receiving UART. Upon the receiving UART obtaining the communication data, it sends the digital information back to the transmitting UART in a parallel format. To accomplish this parallel-serial conversion process among receiving and transmitting UARTs, transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) pins are used. Figure 7.3 illustrates the physical wiring of the Tx and Rx pins of UART-based communication devices:

Figure 7.3: UART communications method

Figure 7.3: UART communications method

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