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Python Programming with Raspberry Pi

You're reading from   Python Programming with Raspberry Pi Build small yet powerful robots and automation systems with Raspberry Pi Zero

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467577
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sai Yamanoor Sai Yamanoor
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Sai Yamanoor
Srihari Yamanoor Srihari Yamanoor
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Python and the Raspberry Pi Zero FREE CHAPTER 2. Arithmetic Operations, Loops, and Blinky Lights 3. Conditional Statements, Functions, and Lists 4. Communication Interfaces 5. Data Types and Object-Oriented Programming in Python 6. File I/O and Python Utilities 7. Requests and Web Frameworks 8. Awesome Things You Could Develop Using Python 9. Lets Build a Robot! 10. Home Automation Using the Raspberry Pi Zero 11. Tips and Tricks

UART - serial port

Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART), a serial port, is a communication interface where the data is transmitted serially in bits from a sensor to the host computer. Using a serial port is one of the oldest forms of communication protocol. It is used in data logging where microcontrollers collect data from sensors and transmit the data via a serial port. There are also sensors that transmit data via serial communication as responses to incoming commands.

We will not go into the theory behind serial port communications (there's plenty of theory available on the Web at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_asynchronous_receiver/transmitter). We will be discussing the use of the serial port to interface different sensors with the Raspberry Pi.

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