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Practical Python Programming for IoT

You're reading from   Practical Python Programming for IoT Build advanced IoT projects using a Raspberry Pi 4, MQTT, RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and Python 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838982461
Length 516 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Programming with Python and the Raspberry Pi
2. Setting Up your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with Python and IoT 4. Networking with RESTful APIs and Web Sockets Using Flask 5. Networking with MQTT, Python, and the Mosquitto MQTT Broker 6. Section 2: Practical Electronics for Interacting with the Physical World
7. Connecting Your Raspberry Pi to the Physical World 8. Electronics 101 for the Software Engineer 9. Section 3: IoT Playground - Practical Examples to Interact with the Physical World
10. Turning Things On and Off 11. Lights, Indicators, and Displaying Information 12. Measuring Temperature, Humidity, and Light Levels 13. Movement with Servos, Motors, and Steppers 14. Measuring Distance and Detecting Movement 15. Advanced IoT Programming Concepts - Threads, AsyncIO, and Event Loops 16. IoT Visualization and Automation Platforms 17. Tying It All Together - An IoT Christmas Tree 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running and exploring the stepper motor code

The code we are about to run can be found in the chapter10/stepper.py file. I recommend reviewing the source code before proceeding so that you have an overall idea of what the file contains.

When you run the code found in the chapter10/stepper.py file, your stepper motor should rotate a complete 360 degrees in one direction, and then back again.

Place a piece of tape on the shaft of your stepper motor to make it easier to see when it rotates and in what direction.

Starting at the top of the source file, we define all our GPIO variables, including our enable pins at line 1, plus variables starting at line 2 relating to our stepper motor coil wires. These wires must be identified and ordered correctly, as coil wire order matters!

CHANNEL_1_ENABLE_GPIO = 18                                # (1)
CHANNEL_2_ENABLE_GPIO = 16

INPUT_1A_GPIO = 23 # Blue Coil 1 Connected to 1Y # (2)
INPUT_2A_GPIO = 24 # Pink Coil 2 Connected...
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