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Internet of Things Projects with ESP32

You're reading from   Internet of Things Projects with ESP32 Build exciting and powerful IoT projects using the all-new Espressif ESP32

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789956870
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with ESP32 2. Making Visual Data and Animation on an LCD FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Simple Game with an Embedded ESP32 Board 4. Building a Sensor Monitoring Logger 5. Controlling IoT Devices over the Internet 6. Building an IoT Weather Station 7. Making Your Own Wi-Fi Wardriving 8. Building Your Own Wi-Fi Cam 9. Making IoT Devices Interact with Mobile Applications 10. Building IoT Monitoring with Cloud Technology 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Demo – accessing microSD cards from the ESP32

In this section, we develop a simple program to access a microSD card from the ESP32. For the demo, I use the ESP-WROVER-KIT v4 board. Fortunately, the ESP-WROVER-KIT v4 board has a built-in microSD card breakout that is connected to SDMMC pins.

Your ESP32 board should be connected to the microSD card breakout to perform this demo. You also need a microSD storage card with a small size, such as 1 GB, 2 GB or 4 GB. Your microSD card storage should be formatted as FAT.

Our demo scenario is aimed at creating a file named test.txt on a microSD card. Then, we read the content of the test.txt file and print this to the serial Terminal.

Now, you can create an ESP32 project called sdcard. Our main project file is sdcard.c and is located in the main folder. Firstly, we declare all required header files, including sdmmc and sdspi:

#include...
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