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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

Building a discrete transistor LED electronic flasher

You learned about electronic interfacing circuits in the previous section. In this section, you will apply this technical knowledge by building a discrete transistor LED electronic flasher operated by an M5Stack Core. To obtain the baseline information about the M5Stack Core-operated device, you will build a virtual transistor LED driver circuit. You will create the virtual transistor LED driver circuit using Tinkercad Circuits. Tinkercad Circuits is an online electronic circuit simulator platform that allows various discrete electrical electronic, digital, and microcontroller circuits to be constructed and tested. This online electronics laboratory was developed by Autodesk. You will use the electronic circuit schematic provided in Figure 5.4 to build the Tinkercad Circuits transistor LED driver circuit.

Figure 5.4 – The transistor LED driver circuit

Figure 5.4 – The transistor LED driver circuit

Tinkercad Circuits is a popular online electronics...