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Python Programming for Arduino

You're reading from   Python Programming for Arduino Develop practical Internet of Things prototypes and applications with Arduino and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783285938
Length 400 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pratik Desai Pratik Desai
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Python and Arduino FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with the Firmata Protocol and the pySerial Library 3. The First Project – Motion-triggered LEDs 4. Diving into Python-Arduino Prototyping 5. Working with the Python GUI 6. Storing and Plotting Arduino Data 7. The Midterm Project – a Portable DIY Thermostat 8. Introduction to Arduino Networking 9. Arduino and the Internet of Things 10. The Final Project – a Remote Home Monitoring System 11. Tweet-a-PowerStrip Index

The Checkbutton() widget – selecting LEDs


While developing complex projects, you will encounter scenarios where you have to depend on the user to select single or multiple options from a given set of values. For example, when you have multiple numbers of LEDs interfaced with the Arduino board and you want the user to select an LED or LEDs that need to be turned on. This level of customization makes your interface more interactive and useful. The Tkinter library provides an interface for a standard widget called Checkbutton() that enables the manual selection process from the given options.

In this exercise, we are going to work with both the LEDs, green and red, that you connected to the Arduino board at the beginning. The entire Python program for this exercise is located in the code folder with the name exampleCheckbutton.py. Open the file with the same editor that you have been using all along. This program implements the Checkbutton() widget for users to select the red and/or green LED...

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