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Arduino for Secret Agents

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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
Profile icon Marco Schwartz

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

Saving pictures to Dropbox


Finally, we are going to make our first application using the hardware that we built. There will be two parts here: an Arduino sketch and a Python script. The Arduino sketch will be in charge of taking a picture in case motion is detected and call the Python script. The Python script will actually upload the pictures to Temboo every time it is called by the Arduino sketch.

This is the complete Arduino sketch:

// Sketch to upload pictures to Dropbox when motion is detected
#include <Bridge.h>
#include <Process.h>

// Picture process
Process picture;

// Filename
String filename;

// Pin
int pir_pin = 8;

// Path
String path = "/mnt/sda1/";

void setup() {
 
  // Bridge
  Bridge.begin();
 
  // Set pin mode
  pinMode(pir_pin,INPUT);
}

void loop(void)
{
 
  if (digitalRead(pir_pin) == true) {
   
    // Generate filename with timestamp
    filename = "";
    picture.runShellCommand("date +%s");
    while(picture.running());

    while (picture.available...
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