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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

Creating a breadboard prototype circuit

Throughout this book, we will be building many electrical circuits, and we will do this using an electronic breadboard. In the initial chapters, I will present many of the circuits with both a breadboard layout similar to that illustrated toward the end of this section in Figure 2.7 and with a schematic diagram as shown in Figure 2.8.

As we progress through this book and you gain more experience building breadboard circuits, I will cease with the breadboard layouts for the simpler circuits; however, I will still present them for the more complex circuits so you have something to compare your builds against.

Please note that the proceeding circuit examples and discussions are only brief. At this stage of this book, we intend to build a simple electronic circuit that will be the basis for our Python examples in this chapter and Chapter 3, Networking with RESTful APIs and Web Sockets Using Flask, and Chapter...