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Creative DIY Microcontroller Projects with TinyGo and WebAssembly

By : Tobias Theel
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Creative DIY Microcontroller Projects with TinyGo and WebAssembly

By: Tobias Theel

Overview of this book

While often considered a fast and compact programming language, Go usually creates large executables that are difficult to run on low-memory or low-powered devices such as microcontrollers or IoT. TinyGo is a new compiler that allows developers to compile their programs for such low-powered devices. As TinyGo supports all the standard features of the Go programming language, you won't have to tweak the code to fit on the microcontroller. This book is a hands-on guide packed full of interesting DIY projects that will show you how to build embedded applications. You will learn how to program sensors and work with microcontrollers such as Arduino UNO and Arduino Nano IoT 33. The chapters that follow will show you how to develop multiple real-world embedded projects using a variety of popular devices such as LEDs, 7-segment displays, and timers. Next, you will progress to build interactive prototypes such as a traffic lights system, touchless hand wash timer, and more. As you advance, you'll create an IoT prototype of a weather alert system and display those alerts on the TinyGo WASM dashboard. Finally, you will build a home automation project that displays stats on the TinyGo WASM dashboard. By the end of this microcontroller book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to build real-world embedded projects using the power of TinyGo.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Afterword

Afterword

Writing this book was great fun. I really enjoyed digging deeper than ever before into TinyGo. I found some problems along the way, created issues, contributed some drivers, and learned a lot. As a consequence of writing this book two new libraries have been created, TinyDom and TinySocket, which can be found on GitHub.

I want to use this opportunity to thank all the people that helped me write this book. First of all there is Alok Dhuri, who found me in the wilds of the internet and gave me the opportunity to write this book. He also provided lots of genius ideas, which have been implemented in some of the projects.

Also, I want to thank Nitee Shetty and Tiksha Abhimanyu Lad for helping me find a good flow in the book by providing tons of feedback on the style, and they also asked tons of good questions in order to get the best out of me.

Also, thanks to everyone else on the Packt team for helping me to get this book done!

And, of course, I want to take the...