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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 9: IoT Temperature-Logging System

In recent years, the use of the internet has increased. This same increase has allowed the internet to evolve. Now we speak of things connected to this network; devices for everyday use that were not originally designed to have connectivity. This evolution has created the concept of the Internet of Things (IoT), which is defined by Morgan in Forbes (2014) as the "interconnection to the internet of commonly used devices that can complete tasks in an automated way."

The IoT is present in practically all fields of daily life, from health to education, known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and the Internet of Educational Things (IoET), respectively.

In this chapter, you will be introduced to the world of creating IoT applications with a temperature logging application for an STM32 Blue Pill board using an ESP8266 Wi-Fi module. With this knowledge, you will be able to build projects that can connect to the internet and present...