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Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By : Marco Schwartz
Book Image

Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

Arduino is a powerful and very versatile platform used by millions of people around the world to create DIY electronics projects. It can be connected to a wide variety of sensors and other components, making it the ideal platform to build amazing Internet of Things (IoT) projects on—the next wave in the era of computing. This book takes a recipe-based approach, giving you precise examples on how to build IoT projects of all types using the Arduino platform. You will come across projects from several fields, including the popular robotics and home automation domains. Along with being introduced to several forms of interactions within IoT, including projects that directly interact with well-known web services such as Twitter, Facebook, and Dropbox we will also focus on Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interactions, where Arduino projects interact without any human intervention. You will learn to build a few quick and easy-to-make fun projects that will really expand your horizons in the world of IoT and Arduino. Each chapter ends with a troubleshooting recipe that will help you overcome any problems faced while building these projects. By the end of this book, you will not only know how to build these projects, but also have the skills necessary to build your own IoT projects in the future.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building a Bitcoin ticker with Arduino


Bitcoin is currently the most used cryptocurrency in the world. There are a lot of Bitcoin tickers (plugins or websites that indicate the current price of Bitcoin) out there, but wouldn't it be cool if you could have your own little Bitcoin ticker on your desk? This is exactly what we are going to do in this recipe.

Getting ready

For the hardware, you can refer to the very first recipe of this chapter, as it uses exactly the same hardware that we use in this project: an OLED screen connected to the Arduino MKR1000 board.

Let's now see how to configure the project. As the sketch is quite long, I will only highlight the most important parts here. First, we define the Wi-Fi credentials, and we also define the API that we'll use to grab the current price of Bitcoin:

// WiFi settings
const char* ssid     = "Jarex_5A';
const char* password = "connect1337';

// API server
const char* host = "api.coindesk.com';

Then, in the loop() function of the sketch, we create...