May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
262 pages
6h 48m
English
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Chapter 6
If you got anything out of this chapter, I hope it is an appreciation of just how powerful microcontrollers have become. Chapter 6 was dedicated to microcontrollers and their version of the Python 3 programming language, MicroPython. In this chapter, we learned what MicroPython is and how it compares to Arduino C.
We looked at some of the microcontrollers that MicroPython may be installed on, before trying our hand at installing the language onto an ESP32 microcontroller.
Our tutorial simulated a smart heating system for an ice rink and incorporated the Long Range (LoRa) communication protocol for sending messages between microcontrollers.