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Practical Python Programming for IoT

By : Gary Smart
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Practical Python Programming for IoT

By: Gary Smart

Overview of this book

The age of connected devices is here, be it fitness bands or smart homes. It's now more important than ever to understand how hardware components interact with the internet to collect and analyze user data. The Internet of Things (IoT), combined with the popular open source language Python, can be used to build powerful and intelligent IoT systems with intuitive interfaces. This book consists of three parts, with the first focusing on the "Internet" component of IoT. You'll get to grips with end-to-end IoT app development to control an LED over the internet, before learning how to build RESTful APIs, WebSocket APIs, and MQTT services in Python. The second part delves into the fundamentals behind electronics and GPIO interfacing. As you progress to the last part, you'll focus on the "Things" aspect of IoT, where you will learn how to connect and control a range of electronic sensors and actuators using Python. You'll also explore a variety of topics, such as motor control, ultrasonic sensors, and temperature measurement. Finally, you'll get up to speed with advanced IoT programming techniques in Python, integrate with IoT visualization and automation platforms, and build a comprehensive IoT project. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with IoT development and have the knowledge you need to build sophisticated IoT systems using Python.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Programming with Python and the Raspberry Pi
6
Section 2: Practical Electronics for Interacting with the Physical World
9
Section 3: IoT Playground - Practical Examples to Interact with the Physical World

OLED code walkthrough

Commencing with the imports, in line (1), we import classes from the PIL (Pillow) module, which we use to create the image we want to render on the OLED display. We also import several other classes from the Luma module related to our SSD1306 OLED and its I2C interface (SPI is also imported for reference).

We see how to create an I2C instance in line (2) representing the interface that our OLED is connected to. Commented out is an SPI alternative. In line (3), we create an instance of ssd1306 that represents our OLED display and assign it to the device variable. If you are using a different OLED display than the SSD1306, you will need to identify and adjust the ssd1306 import line, and the device instance created in line (3):

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont         # (1)
from luma.core.interface.serial import i2c, spi
from luma.core.render import canvas
from luma.oled.device import ssd1306
#...truncated...

# OLED display is using I2C at address 0x3C...