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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 Entry() widget – providing manual user inputs


In the previous exercise, you used a button to blink the LED on the Arduino board for a fixed amount of time. Let's say that you want to change this fixed time delay and specify a value according to your application's requirement. To perform this operation, you will need a widget that accepts custom values that can then be converted into the delay. Just like any other GUI framework, Tkinter provides the interface for a similar widget called Entry() and we will utilize this in the next exercise.

Keep the same Arduino and LED configurations that you used for the previous exercise and open the exampleEntry.py file. In the beginning of the code, you will find the same configuration for the Arduino board and the LED pin that we used in the previous exercise. Moving on to the next stage, you will be able to see the following code snippet that defines the root widget. In this code snippet, we have changed the title of the main window to reflect the...

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