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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)
11
Downloading and Running MicroPython Code

Deploying the custom kernel to a board

There are two steps that we need to follow in order to deploy our custom kernel to our development board. First, we need to compile our new kernel. Second, we need to take the output files and program them into the flash memory on our development board. Let's start by looking at how we can compile our kernel.

The compiled output files

Compiling the kernel requires us to execute just a couple of commands that will run the make file on our MicroPython port. Before attempting to invoke the make file, let's first return to the ports/stm32/ folder in the Terminal. I recommend that you clean any previously compiled versions of the kernel by executing the following command:

make clean...