Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases now! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Arduino Home Automation Projects

You're reading from   Arduino Home Automation Projects Automate your home using the powerful Arduino platform.

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783986064
Length 132 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
Author Profile Icon Marco Schwartz
Marco Schwartz
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building Wireless XBee Motion Detectors 2. Control Lights from Your Phone or Tablet FREE CHAPTER 3. Measuring the Temperature Using Bluetooth 4. Weather Station in the Cloud with Xively 5. Monitor Your Energy Consumption in the Cloud 6. Hack a Commercial Home Automation Device 7. Build Your Own Home Automation System Index

Testing the Arduino system


It's time now to test the Arduino system. Let's do it in the following way:

  • First, take off the chip and place it on the Arduino Uno board, which has to be connected to your computer. To remove the chip from the breadboard or the Arduino Uno board, you can simply use your fingernails or the edge of a knife. Of course, make sure that there is no power flowing through the chip whenever you remove it from a board.

  • Load the Blink sketch that comes with the Arduino IDE and upload the code to the board. You should see that the onboard LED is going on and off continuously.

  • Now, disconnect the board from your computer and remove the microcontroller. Put it back on the breadboard and connect the power with the battery pack. You should see that the LED inserted on the breadboard is going on and off.

If that doesn't work, there are several things you can check. First, make sure that you correctly wired the different parts of the project according to the schematics. Then, make...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime