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Internet of Things with Raspberry Pi 3

By : Maneesh Rao
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Internet of Things with Raspberry Pi 3

By: Maneesh Rao

Overview of this book

This book is designed to introduce you to IoT and Raspberry Pi 3. It will help you create interesting projects, such as setting up a weather station and measuring temperature and humidity using sensors; it will also show you how to send sensor data to cloud for visualization in real-time. Then we shift our focus to leveraging IoT for accomplishing complex tasks, such as facial recognition using the Raspberry Pi camera module, AWS Rekognition, and the AWS S3 service. Furthermore, you will master security aspects by building a security surveillance system to protect your premises from intruders using Raspberry Pi, a camera, motion sensors, and AWS Cloud. We'll also create a real-world project by building a Wi-Fi – controlled robot car with Raspberry Pi using a motor driver circuit, DC motor, and a web application. This book is a must-have as it provides a practical overview of IoT’s existing architectures, communication protocols, and security threats at the software and hardware levels—security being the most important aspect of IoT.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Wiring up the bot

Now let's start making the circuits required to build our Bot.

Wiring L293D with motor

First we interface both the motor of car with motor driver IC L293D as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 8.7

In the previous diagram:

  • OUT1 (pin 3) has been connected to one terminal of LRM
  • OUT2 (pin 6) has been connected to second terminal of LRM
  • OUT3 (pin 11) has been connected to one terminal of RRM
  • OUT4 (pin 14) has been connected to second terminal of RRM
  • VS is connected to positive terminal of 9V DC battery
  • GND is connected to negative terminal of 9V DC battery

The OUT pins provide DC output voltage to drive the motor. The value of voltage output of out pins is decided by the voltage applied to pin VS...