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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)

Showing sensor data results over the internet

In Chapter 9, IoT Temperature-Logging System, and Chapter 10, IoT Plant Pot Moisture Sensor, we learned how to program IoT applications within our local network. In this section of the chapter, we will learn how to send data to the cloud outside of our local network.

A wide variety of cloud platforms allow us to connect our IoT devices to their services. Most allow us to use essential services at no cost. If something more complete is desired, there is a charge, generally a monthly payment. This time we will use the Blynk platform, which has several free options, and they are the ones we will use.

Blynk has an app for both Android and iOS that will allow us to monitor the value of the voltage in our solar cell.

Let's look at the steps to send and view our information from the internet with a mobile app:

  1. Download the Blynk app.

    For Android, download it from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cc.blynk&hl...