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Creative DIY Microcontroller Projects with TinyGo and WebAssembly

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Product type Book
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560208
Pages 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Tobias Theel Tobias Theel
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with TinyGo 2. Chapter 2: Building a Traffic Lights Control System 3. Chapter 3: Building a Safety Lock Using a Keypad 4. Chapter 4: Building a Plant Watering System 5. Chapter 5: Building a Touchless Handwash Timer 6. Chapter 6: Building Displays for Communication using I2C and SPI Interfaces 7. Chapter 7: Displaying Weather Alerts on the TinyGo Wasm Dashboard 8. Chapter 8: Automating and Monitoring Your Home through the TinyGo Wasm Dashboard 9. Assessments 10. Afterword 11. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix – "Go"ing Ahead

Watering your plants

We are now going to utilize every component we created in the past sections. Putting everything together, we will be building a completely automated plant watering system.

To start off, we need to create a new folder named plant-watering-system inside the Chapter04 folder. Inside the new folder, create a new main.go file with an empty main() function inside. The final project structure should now look like the following:

Figure 4.17 – Project structure for plant watering system

Now, inside the main function, follow these steps:

  1. Initialize the ADC interface:
    machine.InitADC()
  2. Initialize a new soilSensor:
    soilSensor := soil.NewSoilSensor(18000, 34800, machine.
                  ADC5, machine.D2)
    soilSensor.Configure()
  3. Initialize a new waterLevelSensor:
    waterLevelSensor := waterlevel.NewWaterLevel(7000,
            ...
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