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Learning IoT with Particle Photon and Electron

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Published in Sep 2016

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ISBN-13 9781785885297

Pages 136 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (3):

Rashid Khan

Kajari Ghoshdastidar

Ajith Vasudevan

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Learning IoT with Particle Photon and Electron

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About the Authors

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Preface

1. Introducing IoT with Particle Photon and Electron

2. Fire Up Your Kit

3. P2P and Local Server

4. Connecting the Sensors

5. Of Cars and Controllers

6. Hacking the Firmware

Putting it all together and controlling the car

Once the prerequisites are in place, you can start assembling the model car. First of all, fasten the motors to the chassis, one on each side of either the front or back side of the car, with the provided screws and clamps. The motors should appear to be driving the same axle. Next, attach a wheel to each of the two DC motor shafts; now attach the two remaining wheels to the non-motorized (imaginary) axle of the car.

Place the breadboard inside the chassis of the car, and assemble the Photon, the L293D motor driver IC, the Li-Po battery, and the 3-6V DC power supply on the breadboard. Now you should make the connections using the jumper wires as per the following connection diagram:

Figure 8: Photon to motor driver connection diagram

In this connection diagram, the ground (GND) connections are omitted for clarity. In actual practice, all GND pins need to be connected together, and this common ground point needs to be connected to the negative...

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Authors (3)

Rashid Khan

Rashid Khan is a programmer living in Bangalore. He is one of the founders of Yellow Messenger, a company that specializes in building bots for commerce. Prior to founding Yellow Messenger, he worked at EdgeVerve Systems, where he built backend systems to support IoT devices. He is an open source enthusiast and loves to experiment with new technologies. He is involved with a number of open source organizations, such as GNOME, Mono, Tomboy Notes, and Banshee and has built a Django (Python) library for Apache Spark called Django-LibSpark. His interests lie in the field of Artificial Intelligence and interfacing software with real-world objects. Apart from programming, he loves to cycle and play tennis.

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Kajari Ghoshdastidar

Kajari Ghoshdastidar got her PhD in wireless sensor networks in 2009 and has been active in IoT-related hobby project work since then. She has worked in the software industry for the last 6 years as a technology architect, software developer, and a computer scientist. She is a technology geek, takes part in hackathons, and is always exploring new technologies and electronic gadgets. She is currently part of the systems engineering team at EdgeVerve, working as a computer scientist.

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Ajith Vasudevan

Ajith Vasudevan is an electronics, computer, and IoT enthusiast who likes to apply his knowledge in these fields to make modern living easy for himself and others around him. He has a bachelor's of technology degree in electrical and electronics engineering. He was interested in automation and IoT even before the term IoT became commonplace. He designed and built an automatic overhead-tank motor operator using $1 worth of electronic parts back in 1995, which is operating at his parents home to this day. He has automated and made it simple and efficient to operate many household appliances, for example, an automatic geyser switch that turns itself off after 10 minutes, saving electricity. It can be set to switch on at any specified time or can be controlled from anywhere. Today, even his friends and neighbors use this system. Ajith has worked in the heavy electrical industry before joining his current employer, Infosys Technologies Limited, in the year 2000. He is presently a senior computer scientist at EdgeVerve Systems, a subsidiary of Infosys. At work, he enjoys programming and has done so for over a decade and a half.

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