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MicroPython Cookbook

By : Marwan Alsabbagh
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MicroPython Cookbook

By: Marwan Alsabbagh

Overview of this book

MicroPython is an open source implementation of Python 3 that runs in embedded environments. With MicroPython, you can write clean and simple Python code to control hardware instead of using complex low-level languages such as C and C++. This book guides you through all the major applications of the MicroPython platform to build and program projects that use microcontrollers. This MicroPython book covers recipes that will help you experiment with the programming environment and hardware programmed in MicroPython. You'll find tips and techniques for building a variety of objects and prototypes that can sense and respond to touch, sound, position, heat, and light. This book will take you through the uses of MicroPython with a variety of popular input devices and sensors. You'll learn techniques to handle time delays and sensor readings, and apply advanced coding techniques to create complex projects. As you advance, you'll deal with Internet of Things (IoT) devices and integration with other online web services. In addition to this, you'll use MicroPython to make music with bananas and create portable multiplayer video games that incorporate sound and light animations into the gameplay. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered the tips and tricks to troubleshoot your development problems and take your MicroPython project to the next level.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Creating a web handler module

This recipe will show you how we can take a lot of the code and logic involved in handling sockets, parsing HTTP request headers, and generating HTML, and bundle it all into a single Python module. Once we have it in one module, we can import this module and pass it our web handler, which will do all the heavy lifting for us.

You will find this recipe useful when you are creating projects that create a web-based application on your microcontroller and you want to get productive fast, without getting bogged down in all the low-level details of sockets and parsing HTTP headers.

Getting ready

You will need access to the REPL on the ESP8266 to run the code presented in this recipe.

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