Book description
To build electronic projects that can sense the physical world, you need to build circuits based around sensors: electronic components that react to physical phenomena by sending an electrical signal. Even with only basic electronic components, you can build useful and educational sensor projects.
But if you incorporate Arduino or Raspberry Pi into your project, you can build much more sophisticated projects that can react in interesting ways and even connect to the Internet. This book starts by teaching you the basic electronic circuits to read and react to a sensor. It then goes on to show how to use Arduino to develop sensor systems, and wraps up by teaching you how to build sensor projects with the Linux-powered Raspberry Pi.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Sensors
- 2. Basic Sensors
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3. Sensors and Arduino
- Project 6: Momentary Push-Button and Pull-Up Resistors
- Project 7: Infrared Proximity to Detect Objects
- Project 8: Rotation (Pot)
- Project 9: Photoresistor to Measure Light
- Project 10: FlexiForce to Measure Pressure
- Project 11: Measuring Temperature (LM35)
- Project 12: Ultrasonic Distance Measuring (HC-SR04)
- Conclusion
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4. Sensors and the Raspberry Pi
- Project 13: Momentary Push Button
- Hello, Python World
- Project 14: Blink an LED with Python
- Project 15: Adjustable Infrared Switch
- Analog Resistance Sensors
- Project 16: Potentiometer to Measure Rotation
- Project 17: Photoresistor
- Project 18: FlexiForce
- Project 19: Temperature Measurements (LM35)
- Project 20: Ultrasonic Distance
- A. Troubleshooting Tactics
- B. Arduino IDE Setup
- C. Setting Up Raspberry Pi
- D. Bill of Materials
- Index
Product information
- Title: Getting Started with Sensors
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2014
- Publisher(s): Make: Community
- ISBN: 9781449367046
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