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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

Introducing M5Stack Core hardware

The M5Stack Core is supported by several internal hardware circuits. With these internal hardware circuits, you can create visual interactive devices that engage the human senses. You can access these internal hardware circuits using Blockly code. The internal hardware circuits you will engage with in this chapter are the amplifier speaker, the RGB LED bar, and the pushbutton switches. Besides these internal hardware circuits, you will build and code a mountable vibration motor. The mountable vibration motor provides a sneak preview of Chapter 5. In this hardware introduction, you will be introduced to electrical circuit interfacing by building the mountable vibration motor. To introduce the mountable vibration motor, here is a block diagram representation of the external hardware device:

Figure 3.1 – Mountable vibration motor block diagram

Figure 3.1 – Mountable vibration motor block diagram

As shown in Figure 3.1, each electronic component is represented by a block...