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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

Interfacing with an analog-to-digital converter

Congratulations on getting this far. I suspect you're itching to get into some code after all that reading!

We will change pace now and apply some of the knowledge we just covered to add an ADS1115 analog-to-digital converter to your Raspberry Pi. An example of a typical ADS1115 breakout module is pictured in Figure 5.3:

Figure 5.3 – ADS1115 breakout module

An ADC is a very handy addition because this alone opens you up to the world of analog components and gadgets that are otherwise not usable with the Raspberry Pi.

As part of this practical exercise, we are going to connect two potentiometers (also known as pots) to the ADS1115 and read in their values in Python. We will use these values to create a PWM signal by varying its duty cycle and frequency. We'll see the effects of varying these parameters by observing how it affects the LED and how the waveform changes in a program called PiScope, which is a part...