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Internet of Things Programming Projects

By : Colin Dow
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Internet of Things Programming Projects

By: Colin Dow

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IOT) has managed to attract the attention of researchers and tech enthusiasts, since it powerfully combines classical networks with instruments and devices. In Internet of Things Programming Projects, we unleash the power of Raspberry Pi and Python to create engaging projects. In the first part of the book, you’ll be introduced to the Raspberry Pi, learn how to set it up, and then jump right into Python programming. Then, you’ll dive into real-world computing by creating a“Hello World” app using flash LEDs. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll go back to an age when analog needle meters ruled the world of data display. You’ll learn to retrieve weather data from a web service and display it on an analog needle meter, and build a home security system using the Raspberry Pi. The next project has a modern twist, where we employ the Raspberry Pi to send a signal to a web service that will send you a text when someone is at the door. In the final project, you take what you've learned from the previous two projects and create an IoT robot car that you can use to monitor what your pets are up to when you are away. By the end of this book, you will be well versed in almost every possible way to make your IoT projects stand out.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Questions

  1. What is the name of the service we used to send text messages from our Raspberry Pi?
  2. True or false? We use a PIR sensor to read temperature and humidity values.
  3. How do you create a dashboard in ThingsBoard?
  4. True or false? We built our enhanced security dashboard by using a sensory dashboard.
  5. What is the name of the library we use to read temperature and humidity sensory data?
  6. True or false? The library that we require to send text messages comes pre-installed with Raspbian.
  7. When naming classes in our code, what do we try to do?
  8. True or false? In order to change our environment from test to live, do we have to rewrite the entire code in our enhanced home security dashboard.
  9. True or false? The account_sid number for our Twilio account is the same for the live environment as it is for the test environment.
  10. Where do we create a SecurityDashboardDist object in our SecurityDashboardDist...