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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

Summary

As we saw in this chapter, developers are able to go into the MicroPython kernel and customize it for their applications. These customizations can be as simple as adjusting the names of the pins on the development board or adjusting the startup states of the GPIO pins, or as complex as communicating with an external device. We also saw that we can save space and increase the execution efficiency of our applications by converting modules into frozen modules, which are then built into the MicroPython kernel. If we need to update those modules, we can also cross-compile them using mpy-cross and deploy a precompiled bytecode version of the module onto our filesystem.

Now that we have a solid foundation on how to develop MicroPython applications and how we can customize the kernel, in the next chapter, we will examine how we can create our own custom debugging tools, which...