Learning IoT with Particle Photon and Electron电子书

Learning IoT with Particle Photon and Electron

Learning IoT with Particle Photon and Electron

Credits

About the Authors

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introducing IoT with Particle Photon and Electron

Evolution of the IoT

Why the IoT has become a household word now

Hardware and software in the IoT ecosystem

Essential terminology

Network protocols

Market survey of IoT development boards and cloud services

IoT development boards

Cloud services (PaaS, BaaS, M2M)

What is Particle?

The journey of Particle

Why Particle?

What does Particle offer?

Photon, Electron, and Core

Spark Core

Particle Photon

Particle Electron

Comparison

Summary

2. Fire Up Your Kit

Essentials of FreeRTOS and hardware resources

Flow diagram for the Twitter project

Getting the Photon online

Setting up the Photon or Core

Software and hardware requirements

Software setup

Connecting Particle Photon or Core

The Web IDE

Twitter and e-mail interaction project

Setting up a Twitter developer account

Sending web requests using Particle webhooks

Creating a webhook

Listing and deleting webhooks

Putting it all together

Setting up the Twitter and e-mail webhook

How to sense motion?

Sensing button presses - programming the buttons

Tweets and e-mail

Troubleshooting

Summary

3. P2P and Local Server

Client-server versus P2P networks

Traditional client-server architecture

Peer-to-peer network architecture

Client-server versus P2P

Advantages and disadvantages of P2P networking

Setting up a P2P network for Particle devices

Flash the VoodooSpark firmware

Connect the Particle board with VoodooSpark

Controlling your Particle board using the keyboard

Local server setup

Advantages and disadvantages of Particle local server

Installing Particle server on a local machine

Configuring the local server

Alternate protocols for IoT

MQTT

CoAP

Summary

4. Connecting the Sensors

Overview of the project

Hardware components and setup

RFID reader module RC522-RFID and RFID tags

PIR motion sensor

Data flow diagrams

Communication between the Photons

Sample code

Photon with the RFID reader

Photon with the motion sensor

Data storage on the cloud

Cloud data analysis and SMS notification

Troubleshooting

Summary

5. Of Cars and Controllers

Building the model car - hardware components

Wheels

L293D motor driver

65 RPM DC Right Angled motor

Chassis

Power supply and Li-Po battery

Breadboard and jumper wires

Building the model car - prerequisites

Putting it all together and controlling the car

The code

Running the program and controlling the car

Moving the car with gestures

How it works

The code

Programming the car with the Electron

Putting it all together (again)

The code

Troubleshooting

Summary

6. Hacking the Firmware

What is firmware?

A bit of history

Obtaining and flashing firmware

Obtaining firmware

Obtaining firmware by direct download

Obtaining firmware by building from source

ARM GCC

Make

Git

Getting the firmware source code

Compiling the code

Burning firmware onto the device

Burning firmware using the OTA method

Burning firmware using Particle-CLI

Burning firmware using the DFU-Util method

Installing DFU-Util

Flashing firmware

Custom firmware

Summary