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Internet of Things with Python

By : Gaston C. Hillar
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Internet of Things with Python

By: Gaston C. Hillar

Overview of this book

Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing the way devices/things interact with each other. And when you have IoT with Python on your side, you'll be able to build interactive objects and design them. This book lets you stay at the forefront of cutting-edge research on IoT. We'll open up the possibilities using tools that enable you to interact with the world, such as Intel Galileo Gen 2, sensors, and other hardware. You will learn how to read, write, and convert digital values to generate analog output by programming Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) in Python. You will get familiar with the complex communication system included in the board, so you can interact with any shield, actuator, or sensor. Later on, you will not only see how to work with data received from the sensors, but also perform actions by sending them to a specific shield. You'll be able to connect your IoT device to the entire world, by integrating WiFi, Bluetooth, and Internet settings. With everything ready, you will see how to work in real time on your IoT device using the MQTT protocol in python. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop IoT prototypes with Python, libraries, and tools.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Internet of Things with Python
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about different displays the we could connect to our board through the I2C bus. We worked with an LCD display, an RGB backlight, and then replaced it with an OLED dot matrix.

We wrote the code that took advantage of the modules and classes included in the upm library that made it easier for us to work with LCD and OLED display and show text on them. In addition, we wrote the code that interacted with an analog servo. Instead of writing our own code to set the output duty cycle based on the desired position for the shaft, we took advantage of a specific module and a class in the upm library. We could control the shaft to allow us to create a gauge chart to display the temperature value retrieved with a sensor. Our Python code could make things move.

Now that we are able to show data next to the board and work with servos, we will connect our IoT device to the entire world and work with cloud services, which is the topic of the next chapter.