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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

So, what have we learned in this project? Firstly, we learned how to connect the microphone module, LED, and resistor to the STM32 Blue Pill microcontroller board, which would be controlled by the STM32 microcontroller. We then wrote a piece of code to read an analog value and analyze it in our microcontroller. Subsequently, we sent a digital signal to turn the LED on or off depending on the embedded rules in our STM32. Lastly, we physically tested the device to understand the real-life operation.

This project gives us the skills to begin to create a remote control to automate home appliances and use them according to our needs. For example, you can add a relay module and connect it to a lamp so you can turn it on and off from the comfort of where you are without the need to reach the lamp switch.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to use the serial monitor feature to analyze the outputs that our sketch generates while it is running. We will do so by building a gas...