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DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists

By : Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz, Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla
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DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists

By: Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz, Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla

Overview of this book

We live in a world surrounded by electronic devices, and microcontrollers are the brains of these devices. Microcontroller programming is an essential skill in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), and this book helps you to get up to speed with it by working through projects for designing and developing embedded apps with microcontroller boards. DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists are filled with microcontroller programming C and C++ language constructs. You'll discover how to use the Blue Pill (containing a type of STM32 microcontroller) and Curiosity Nano (containing a type of PIC microcontroller) boards for executing your projects as PIC is a beginner-level board and STM-32 is an ARM Cortex-based board. Later, you'll explore the fundamentals of digital electronics and microcontroller board programming. The book uses examples such as measuring humidity and temperature in an environment to help you gain hands-on project experience. You'll build on your knowledge as you create IoT projects by applying more complex sensors. Finally, you'll find out how to plan for a microcontroller-based project and troubleshoot it. By the end of this book, you'll have developed a firm foundation in electronics and practical PIC and STM32 microcontroller programming and interfacing, adding valuable skills to your professional portfolio.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary

At the beginning of the project, you saw how to interface a soil moisture sensor to your STM32 board. Then, we created a simple sketch to collect the sensor readings and tested it to ensure it worked properly.

We also learned how to connect a NodeMCU card to the internet and read the sensor data from the STM32. Finally, in the last part of the project, we built a web app to control the IoT device from any web browser, either mobile or desktop.

The IoT area is growing quickly, so talented people with the right skills in this technology can easily access jobs in this exciting area. With this in mind, after completing this chapter, we now have a stronger foundation for creating IoT devices and applications.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to connect our electronic devices to the internet and make them available outside our local Wi-Fi network.