Building Arduino Projects for the Internet of Things: Experiments with Real-World Applications

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1. Arduino Basics

Adeel Javed¹ 

(1)Lake Zurich, Illinois, USA

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Arduino is an open-source platform that’s composed of very simple and easy-to-use hardware and software. In a nutshell your Arduino can read sensor data and control components such as lights, motors, thermostats, and garage doors. It has mainly been developed for prototyping purposes, so it is a great fit for this IoT beginner’s book.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to: ...