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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

Object detection requirements

The main purpose of this project is to build an embedded system that can detect objects. Object detection can be applied to a wide range of applications, from robotics through IoT devices such as person recognition for a smart doorbell. For this project, we are going to have two primary goals:

  • First, we want to be able to detect general objects that we could apply to a rover like a robot that is looking for objects in its path that would require it to change course.
  • Second, we want to create a second project that is able to recognize whether a person is present.

Hardware requirements

There are several different approaches that we could take for object detection that would cost anywhere from...