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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

Preface

Suppose you are interested in learning new approaches to developing portable electronic controllers to operate electromechanical loads such as a DC motor or introducing new prototyping techniques for interactive product development using littleBits or SNAP circuits as augmentation tools. In that case, the M5Stack Electronic Blueprints book is for you. This book provides coverage of the design, development, and prototyping workflow process of building interactive electronic controllers and IoT device applications. You will learn how to create a physical M5Stack Core controller device based on the ESP32 microcontroller using discrete electronic components, Arduino C/C++, and UIFlow Blockly code (no-code) programming languages.

The ESP32 subsystem is the heart of the M5Stack Core controller. Here, internal circuits, such as a 3W audio amplifier, LED bars, USB-C ports, push button switches, a thin film transistor (TFT) touch screen, and general-purpose input-output (GPIO) ports, are managed by the ESP32 subsystem. You will learn about the structure of the ESP32 subsystem architecture in this book. The ESP32 microcontroller has an internal Bluetooth chipset and Wi-Fi support circuitry. You will learn how to create IoT controllers and scanners using the M5Stack internal Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chipsets. Finally, human computing interaction (HCI)-based techniques for creating effective and aesthetically appealing user interfaces for product engagement will be presented in this book.