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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 the basics of the DHT11 humidity and temperature sensor and the LM35 temperature sensor, including their operating ranges and how these sensors send data to a microcontroller board. These are practical and low-cost sensors that the Blue Pill and the Curiosity Nano can easily handle. This chapter showed two ways of showing humidity and temperature results. The Blue Pill showed the humidity and temperature values directly on the computer monitor and on an LCD, while the Curiosity Nano showed temperature and humidity ranges with LEDs. This chapter was beneficial because you learned how to get environmental data from sensors using microcontroller boards and how to display it effectively, using the microcontroller boards' input and output ports. This chapter also highlighted the use of an LCD to show the temperature and humidity data.

Chapter 6, Morse Code SOS Visual Alarm with a Bright LED, will review how to create a practical visual alarm....