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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

Kirchhoff's circuit laws

Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws are two laws that circuits abide by. They are two laws essential to electrical engineering, and are stated as follows:

  • The algebraic sum of all voltages in a loop must equal zero.
  • The algebraic sum of all currents entering and exiting a node must equal zero.

That's about as deep as we're going to go on these laws. I have mentioned these laws here because the voltage law is the one we will see in action in the next section, when we calculate why we've been using a 200 Ohm resistor in earlier chapters for our LED circuits.

With that, we have covered briefly three important electrical principles or laws – Ohm's Law, power, and Kirchhoff's circuit laws. It's now time to put these principles into practice. We will do this with an exercise to work out why we have been using a 200Ω series resistor in our LED circuits.