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MicroPython Projects

By : Jacob Beningo
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MicroPython Projects

By: Jacob Beningo

Overview of this book

With the increasing complexity of embedded systems seen over the past few years, developers are looking for ways to manage them easily by solving problems without spending a lot of time on finding supported peripherals. MicroPython is an efficient and lean implementation of the Python 3 programming language, which is optimized to run on microcontrollers. MicroPython Projects will guide you in building and managing your embedded systems with ease. This book is a comprehensive project-based guide that will help you build a wide range of projects and give you the confidence to design complex projects spanning new areas of technology such as electronic applications, automation devices, and IoT applications. While building seven engaging projects, you'll learn how to enable devices to communicate with each other, access and control devices over a TCP/IP socket, and store and retrieve data. The complexity will increase progressively as you work on different projects, covering areas such as driver design, sensor interfacing, and MicroPython kernel customization. By the end of this MicroPython book, you'll be able to develop industry-standard embedded systems and keep up with the evolution of the Internet of Things.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Downloading and Running MicroPython Code

Selecting the right development platform

There are quite a few options available to developers who are interested in working with MicroPython. To date, MicroPython has been ported to approximately a dozen different microcontroller architectures. Each architecture then supports a range of development boards, putting the options for developers at nearly 50 different development boards. With so many different options, it can be a bit challenging to decide which one makes the most sense for your project.

While there are many different ways to go about selecting a development platform, we are going to walk through a simple process that includes this:

  1. Surveying the available architectures
  2. Identifying boards of interests within those architectures
  3. Creating a Kepner-Tregoe (KT) matrix to objectively evaluate the best board for the application

This simple process will ensure that you...