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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)
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Part 1: M5Stack Electronics Hardware Architecture
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Part 2: M5Stack Electronic Interfacing Circuit Projects
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Part 3: M5Stack IoT Projects

Summary

Congratulations, you have completed the hands-on activities and interactive quizzes in this chapter, in which you learned about the technology used in the M5Stack Core unit. You learned how to electrically connect the RGB LED, IR Remote, and angle and motion sensor units to the M5Stack Core using a four-wire jumper harness. Further, you learned about the key electrical or electronic sensing and visual component used with each unit. For the angle sensor unit, you learned how to wire a virtual device using the online Tinkercad Circuits website. You learned how the angle sensor unit’s potentiometer produces a proportional output voltage based on the percentage of the supply voltage applied to the variable resistor. With this knowledge, you learned how to measure the potentiometer’s percentage of output voltage using a Tinkercad Circuits multimeter.

Additionally, you learned how to add and set up each unit’s UI properties within the UIFlow software. You...