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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

Technical requirements

To engage with the chapter’s learning content, you will need the M5GO IoT Starter kit to explore Wi-Fi IoT technologies. You will be introduced to the M5Burner to download and install firmware onto the ESP32 microcontroller-based controller. Further, the Arduino integrated development environment (IDE) software with the M5Stack library will be required to build and run the M5Stack Core Wi-Fi applications.

You will require the following:

  • The M5GO IoT Starter kit
  • The M5Burner software
  • The Arduino IDE software
  • The M5Stack library
  • The M5Stack Arduino API
  • A Snap Circuits Bicolor LED
  • Snap Circuits electrical jumper wires
  • A standard four-connector-based jumper wire harness
  • A smartphone

Here is the GitHub repository for the software resources: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/M5Stack-Electronic-Blueprints/tree/main/Chapter08