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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 the chapter, you learned about the electronic circuits used to interface or connect discrete components to the M5Stack Core. You learned how to wire electronic circuits using solderless breadboards and proto modules. You learned how to build a virtual online circuit using Tinkercad Circuits to test a transistor LED driver circuit. You learned how to use a solderless breadboard to wire and test a transistor-operated DC motor. You learned how to create a physical simulator to behave like a temperature sensor using a littleBits slide control. When building a physical simulator, you learned about the NTC and its application with a thermistor.

Further, you learned how to use your coding skills and electronics knowledge to build a littleBits LED flasher. This project provided the concept diagram and the hardware and software components for building the M5Stack Core controller...