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Practical Python Programming for IoT

By : Gary Smart
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Practical Python Programming for IoT

By: Gary Smart

Overview of this book

The age of connected devices is here, be it fitness bands or smart homes. It's now more important than ever to understand how hardware components interact with the internet to collect and analyze user data. The Internet of Things (IoT), combined with the popular open source language Python, can be used to build powerful and intelligent IoT systems with intuitive interfaces. This book consists of three parts, with the first focusing on the "Internet" component of IoT. You'll get to grips with end-to-end IoT app development to control an LED over the internet, before learning how to build RESTful APIs, WebSocket APIs, and MQTT services in Python. The second part delves into the fundamentals behind electronics and GPIO interfacing. As you progress to the last part, you'll focus on the "Things" aspect of IoT, where you will learn how to connect and control a range of electronic sensors and actuators using Python. You'll also explore a variety of topics, such as motor control, ultrasonic sensors, and temperature measurement. Finally, you'll get up to speed with advanced IoT programming techniques in Python, integrate with IoT visualization and automation platforms, and build a comprehensive IoT project. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with IoT development and have the knowledge you need to build sophisticated IoT systems using Python.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Programming with Python and the Raspberry Pi
6
Section 2: Practical Electronics for Interacting with the Physical World
9
Section 3: IoT Playground - Practical Examples to Interact with the Physical World

Running the example H-Bridge code to control a motor

Now that you have created your H-Bridge driver circuit and connected your motors, let's run the code that will make the motors spin.

There are two files for this section, and they can be found in chapter10/motor_class.py and chapter10/motor.py. Run the code found in chapter10/motor.py and your motors will turn on, change speeds, and change direction.

Place a piece of tape on the shaft of your motors to make it easier to see when they rotate and in what direction.

When you have confirmed that your circuit works with the example code, we will next proceed and discuss the code. Since the L293D can drive two motors, the common code has been abstracted out into motor_class.py, which is imported and used by motor.py to drive our two individual motors.

We'll start by looking at motor.py.