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Arduino for Secret Agents

You're reading from  Arduino for Secret Agents

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783986088
Pages 170 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Arduino for Secret Agents
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
A Simple Alarm System with Arduino Creating a Spy Microphone Building an EMF Bug Detector Access Control with a Fingerprint Sensor Opening a Lock with an SMS Building a Cloud Spy Camera Monitoring Secret Data from Anywhere Creating a GPS Tracker with Arduino Building an Arduino Spy Robot Index

Hardware configuration


Now let's configure the hardware for this project. It will be really simple and we'll also set up the Wi-Fi connectivity of Yun.

This is a schematic to help you out (excluding the USB camera):

You just need to connect the PIR motion sensor to Yun. Connect VCC to the Arduino 5V pin, GND to GND, and the output of the sensor to pin number 8 of the Arduino Yun.

Finally, insert the USB camera into the USB port and the microSD card into the Arduino Yun.

The following is how it should look in the end:

Now, we are going to set up Yun so that it connects to your Wi-Fi network. For that, the best way is to follow the latest instructions from Arduino that are available at https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/ArduinoYun.

Then, you should be able to connect to your Yun via your favorite web browser and access it with the password that you set earlier:

After that, you'll be able to see that your Yun is working:

Now, we'll access it from a terminal in order to install some modules. If you are...

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