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Internet of Things Programming Projects

You're reading from Internet of Things Programming Projects Build modern IoT solutions with the Raspberry Pi 3 and Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789134803

Length 436 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

IoT Development

Author (1):

Colin Dow

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi FREE CHAPTER

2. Writing Python Programs Using Raspberry Pi

3. Using the GPIO to Connect to the Outside World

4. Subscribing to Web Services

5. Controlling a Servo with Python

6. Working with the Servo Control Code to Control an Analog Device

7. Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Web Server

8. Reading Raspberry Pi GPIO Sensor Data Using Python

9. Building a Home Security Dashboard

10. Publishing to Web Services

11. Creating a Doorbell Button Using Bluetooth

12. Enhancing Our IoT Doorbell

13. Introducing the Raspberry Pi Robot Car

14. Controlling the Robot Car Using Python

15. Connecting Sensory Inputs from the Robot Car to the Web

16. Controlling the Robot Car with Web Service Calls

17. Building the JavaScript Client

18. Putting It All Together

19. Assessments

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Python libraries for the Raspberry Pi

We will turn our attention to the Python libraries or packages that come pre-installed with Raspbian. To view these packages from Thonny, click on Tools | Manage Packages. After a short delay, you should see many packages listed in the dialog:

Let's explore a few of these packages.

picamera

The camera port, or CSI, on the Raspberry Pi allows you to connect the specially designed Raspberry Pi camera module to your Pi. This camera can take both photos and videos, and has functionality to do time-lapse photography and slow-motion video recording. The picamera package gives us access to the camera through Python. The following is a picture of a Raspberry Pi camera module connected to...

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Authors (1)

Colin Dow

Colin Dow

Colin Dow has been involved with technology since the early home computers caught his eye. He has worked as a programmer/analyst at some of Canada's biggest companies. He is the author of the Packt books Internet of Things Programming Projects (2018), Hands-On Edge Analytics with Azure IoT, and Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD. When he's not nerding out on programming or 3D printing, he likes to compose electronic music, which can be found on Spotify under the name Project Josephine.

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