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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

It’s a SNAP! Snap Circuits and the M5Stack Core

In the previous chapter, you learned about the various hardware circuits that extend the operational functions of the M5Stack Core. You learned about the various hardware circuits that allow motion, light, and sound to appeal to the user of an M5Stack Core. You learned how to access the UiFlow Blockly code palette to program the M5Stack Core to utilize a vibration motor, a speaker, and the RGB LED. Furthermore, you learned how to wire a littleBits vibration motor to the M5Stack Core and program it to operate as a haptic device. With the knowledge of creating a block diagram and electronic circuit schematic diagram obtained in Chapter 3, you will be able to wire the M5Stack Core to operate various Snap Circuits devices. In this chapter, you will explore the M5Stack Core as a mini, programmable controller that operates various electronic circuits. You will be introduced to Snap Circuits, followed by an explanation of a version of...