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Intel Edison Projects

By : Avirup Basu
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Intel Edison Projects

By: Avirup Basu

Overview of this book

Change the way you look at embedded electronics with Intel Edison. It is a small computing platform packed with a set of robust features to deliver hands-on performance, durability, and software support. This book is a perfect place to kickstart development and rapid prototyping using Intel Edison. It will start by introducing readers to the Intel Edison board and explaining how to get started with it. You will learn how to build a mini weather station, which will help you to acquire temperature and smoke level and push it to the IoT platform. Then you will see how to build a home automation device and control your appliances using an Android app. Furthermore, we will build a security system using a webcam to detect faces and perform voice recognition. Toward the end, the book will demonstrate how you can build two robots, which will be based on different line sensing sensors and can be controlled by a PC. The book will guide the readers through each and every step of execution of a project, using Intel Edison.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Summary

Throughout this chapter, we have learned some techniques of voice recognition using the Intel Edison. We also learned how image processing can be done in Python and implemented the same on the Intel Edison. Finally, we explored how a real life security-based system would look like and an open-ended question for Microsoft Cognitive Services.

Chapter 5, Autonomous Robotics with Intel Edison, will be entirely dedicated to robotics and how the Intel Edison can be used with robotics. We'll be covering both autonomous and manual robotics.