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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

What have we learned in this project? Firstly, we learned how to connect a temperature sensor to the STM32 Blue Pill microcontroller board. We then wrote the code to read the temperature and send it to our microcontroller. Subsequently, we learned how to connect a Wi-Fi module to our STM32 and code a sketch to connect the board to the internet.

This project has given us the skills to begin to create an IoT application, a great skill in this hyper-connected world. In the forthcoming chapters, you will be able to apply what you have learned since they consist of projects that require an internet connection. In Chapter 10, IoT Plant Pot Moisture Sensor, you will learn about measuring the moisture of a pot through a sensor and sending it to the cloud. We will visualize the sensor data on a web page.