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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

Solderless Breadboarding with the M5Stack

In the previous chapter, you learned about the various Snap Circuits blocks that extend the M5Stack Core operational functions. You learned about blocks that allow motion, lights, and sound to enhance the appeal to the user of an M5Stack Core. You learned how to program the LED MC using a basic procedure. The PICAXE microcontroller used in the LED MC was presented to you using an electronic circuit schematic diagram. Furthermore, you learned about the ALARM IC module and the ASIC used to produce various sound effects. With the alarm IC, you learned how to wire the Snap Circuits unit to produce sounds such as a machine gun, a siren, a fire engine, and a European siren. You learned about the snap pins for the LED MC and the alarm IC modules in the previous chapter. Lastly, an interface circuit technique for wiring the M5Stack Core to a Snap Circuits LED MC and alarm IC using a transistor relay driver circuit was presented in the previous chapter...