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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

In this chapter, we learned what sensors are and their applications in electronic projects. This is important because we will continue applying sensors in other chapters from this book. We also defined photoresistors, and how they are classified. We also learned how to connect a photoresistor sensor module to the Blue Pill and Curiosity Nano boards' input ports, and how to analyze and use analog data from a photoresistor.

In this chapter, you learned important pieces of information. We have defined what a sensor and a photosensor is. You can now read data from them using microcontroller boards. The chapter also described how to connect a photosensor module to a microcontroller board.

Chapter 5, Humidity and Temperature Measurement, will explain what a humidity and temperature sensor is and how can we acquire and use its analog data with both the Blue Pill and Curiosity Nano microcontroller boards. This can have a number of applications, such as measuring the temperature...