Required equipment

In this and the upcoming chapters, we'll be using the Grove Starter Kit Plus—Intel IoT edition sensors. It is a set of sensors that are officially compatible with both Intel Galileo and Intel Edison. For Galileo, there are two kits available. One for Gen 1 (http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/Grove-starter-kit-plus-Intel-IoT-Edition-for-Intel-Galileo-Gen-1-p-1977.html) and another for Gen 2 (http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/Grove-starter-kit-plus-Intel-IoT-Edition-for-Intel-Galileo-Gen-2-p-1978.html). Pick the right one for the board you are using.

For this chapter, we'll need:

• Base Shield V2: It is an expansion header containing multiple Grove connectors. It allows us to connect multiple Grove sensors to it, allowing us to keep using the expansion header:

  

• Light sensor: Just like the photoresistor we used in the previous chapter, it also detects the intensity of the incident light by decreasing its resistance value when the incident amount of light increases. With the increase...