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Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466952
Pages 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
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Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Building Smart Homes with Raspberry Pi Zero
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Configuring Your Raspberry Pi Zero Board 2. Measure Data Using Your Raspberry Pi Zero Board 3. Building a Smart Home Thermostat 4. Controlling Appliances fromthe Raspberry Pi Zero 5. Making a Smart Plug with the Raspberry Pi Zero 6. Sending Notifications using Raspberry Pi Zero 7. Use the Raspberry Pi Zero to Build a Security System 8. Monitor Your Home from the Cloud 9. Control Appliances from Anywhere 10. Building a Home Automation System with Raspberry Pi Zero Boards Index

Controlling the speed of a DC motor

In any smart home, chances are you will find a DC motor somewhere that you will need to automate. It could, for example, be on electric window blinds, or on an automated garage door. In this section, we are going to see how to control the speed of a simple DC motor and you will then be able to apply this to any motors you already have in your home.

Let's first see how to connect the DC motor to your Raspberry Pi Zero board. We actually won't connect the motor directly to the Raspberry Pi, as this would require a lot of external components, such as transistors, diodes, and so on. Instead, we'll use the L293D chip, which is a dedicated IC to control DC motors.

First, place the L293D on the board. The following diagram shows the pinout of the L293D:

You basically need to connect the components to the L293D as follows:

  • GPIO14 of the Raspberry Pi to pin 1A

  • GPIO15 of the Raspberry Pi to pin 2A

  • GPIO18 of the Raspberry Pi to pin 1,2EN

  • DC motor to pin 1Y and 2Y

  • 5V of the...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Marco Schwartz
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Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
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