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ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook

You're reading from   ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook Over 50 recipes to help you master ESP8266 functionality

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288102
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Configuring the ESP8266 FREE CHAPTER 2. Your First ESP8266 Projects 3. More ESP8266 Functions 4. Using MicroPython on the ESP8266 5. Cloud Data Monitoring 6. Interacting with Web Services 7. Machine to Machine Interactions Index

Introduction

In this chapter, we will learn how to configure and control an ESP8266 board using MicroPython. MicroPython is one of the many programming languages that we can use to program the ESP8266 module. It is a lean and fast version of the Python 3 programming language and has several advantages over traditional programming languages such as C and C++.

The first advantage is that Python is a very well-known programming language. Therefore, there are numerous resources and libraries available online. This comes in handy when working on your open source projects.

Writing and debugging code using MicroPython is faster than when using other programming languages. In fact, it is about five times faster than C++. It is also easier to program using MicroPython because it is expressive and versatile, which makes it great for beginners.

MicroPython is great for low power applications, as the chip consumes less power when booting with MicroPython. This makes devices very energy efficient and...

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