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Internet of Things with ESP8266

You're reading from   Internet of Things with ESP8266 Build amazing Internet of Things projects using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468024
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with the ESP8266 2. First Projects with the ESP8266 FREE CHAPTER 3. Cloud Data Logging with the ESP8266 4. Control Devices from Anywhere 5. Interacting With Web Services 6. Machine-to-Machine Communications 7. Sending Notifications from the ESP8266 8. Controlling a Door Lock from the Cloud 9. Building a Physical Bitcoin Ticker 10. Wireless Gardening with the ESP8266 11. Cloud-Based Home Automation System 12. Cloud-Controlled ESP8266 Robot 13. Building Your Own Cloud Platform to Control ESP8266 Devices Index

Adding alert LEDs to the ticker


We did the hardest project so far: we built a physical Bitcoin ticker that indicates the price of Bitcoin in real time.

We're now ready to add little improvements to the project to make it even better. For example, we are going to add two LEDs, one red and one green, to indicate whether the Bitcoin price is going up or down.

We are going to flash the red LED when the price is going down, and the green one when it's going up.

But first, we need to add the hardware to the project. Simply place the LEDs in series with the 330 Ohm resistors on the breadboard, and then connect them as we saw in earlier chapters. Make sure to connect the red LED to pin 5, and the green LED to pin 4, of the ESP8266 board.

This is the final result for this part:

Let's now see how to configure this project. I will only detail here what changed compared to the previous project:

  1. We first need to define the pins to which the LEDs are connected:

    #define LED_PIN_UP 4
    #define LED_PIN_DOWN 5
  2. Then...

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