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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)

Chapter 5: Humidity and Temperature Measurement

This chapter describes how to practically measure humidity and temperature in an environment, as well as how to connect specialized sensors to a microcontroller board. You will find out how to use the commonly used sensors DHT11 and LM35. In this chapter, you will gain valuable information regarding gaining data acquisition from a temperature and humidity sensor and a sensor module and how to display it to a user.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Introducing the DHT11 humidity and temperature sensor module
  • Connecting the DHT11 and LM35 sensors to the microcontroller boards
  • Coding to get data from the sensor module
  • Showing the humidity and temperature data results on the serial port monitor

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to properly connect a DHT11 humidity and temperature sensor and an LM35 temperature sensor to the Curiosity Nano and Blue Pill microcontroller...