Programming Microcontrollers with Python: Experience the Power of Embedded Python

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A. SuberoProgramming Microcontrollers with Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7058-5_2

2. Electronics Primer

Armstrong Subero¹  

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Basse Terre, Moruga, Trinidad and Tobago

 

In the last chapter, we covered the basics of microcontrollers and how to set up a development environment. To really use microcontrollers, however, we need to interface them to the outside world. This will require a basic understanding of electronics. While it would be impossible to fully cover this vast and complicated field in a single chapter, let alone an entire book, this chapter provides an introduction to the principles of electronics and an overview of some of the components ...