Tech Explorations™ Arduino: Make an IoT environment monitor

Tech Explorations™ Arduino: Make an IoT environment monitor

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A perfect start for the new maker: learn by creating a gadget that posts your environment data to a Web logging service.

This course is designed for beginner makers. I will help you get started with the basics of creating circuits with the Arduino prototyping board, and by the end of this course you will have an Internet-connected home environment monitoring gadget, build with your own hands!

The only prerequisite is a basic understanding of concepts like voltage, current and resistance, and ability to download and install software on your computer. A very basic understanding of programming is a bonus, but not absolutely necessary.

Along the way, you will learn about programming, sensors, and communications.

The course is split in three parts:

Part 1 is an introduction, which will gently help you create your first circuit and open your appetite for more.

Part 2 contains a primer on making with the Arduino, focusing on the Integrated Development Environment and the sketching language.

Part 3 is about making JING. JING (not an acronym!) is the environment monitoring system that you will put together piece by piece, and line by line.

If learning by making sounds like the way to go, then this course is for you!

Materials:

To fully take advantage of this course, you will need (all of these are easily sourced from Ebay):

1) An Arduino (I suggest a genuine Arduino Uno)
2) A photoresistor
3) A DHT22 temperature and humidity sensor
4) A BMP085 barometric sensor breakout
5) A 16×2 LCD screen based on the Hitachi HD44780 driver (or compatible, these are very common)
6) A potentiometer
7) Assorted resistors
8) A small breadboard
9) Lot’s of breadboard wires.

What you’ll learn

  • Make simple circuits based on the Arduino board
  • Acquire data from sensors and display them on an LCD screen
  • Upload sensor data to a free cloud logging service and visualise it in a dashboard
  • Understand the basics of programming for microcontrollers
Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Introduction
2 Please read this before continuing!
3 Components needed for this project
4 Where can you find the sketch source code
5 Hello World! Diodes, LEDs, and your 1st circuit
6 Hello World! Your 1st sketch
7 Use Pulse Width Modules, make the LED fade

Arduino development basics
8 Compilers, the IDE instructions and functions
9 Operators
10 Control structures
11 Frequently used functions
12 Custom functions
13 Reading and writing digital and analog values
14 Digital and analog readwrite demonstration

Constructing JING
15 Measuring light with Lux and the Axel-Benz formula
16 Upload data from a single sensor to Emoncms
17 Setting up logging and visualising data on Emoncms
18 Completing the hardware assembly
19 The Jing complete sketch walkthrough
20 Completing the Jing dashboard
21 Measuring light with a photoresistor demonstration
22 Measuring temperature and humidity
23 Measuring barometric pressure
24 Adding an LCD screen, setup the circuit
25 Adding an LCD screen, adding a library and sketch walkthrough
26 Create an echo server with the Ethernet Shield
27 Transmit sensor data with the Ethernet Shield
28 Emoncms, what is it, walkthrough

Video Responses
29 How to configure a widget (and why is a widget blank)

Conclusion
30 Wrap-it up, what did we learn, and improvements
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