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Arduino Home Automation Projects

You're reading from  Arduino Home Automation Projects

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783986064
Pages 132 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
Profile icon Marco Schwartz

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Arduino Home Automation Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Building Wireless XBee Motion Detectors 2. Control Lights from Your Phone or Tablet 3. Measuring the Temperature Using Bluetooth 4. Weather Station in the Cloud with Xively 5. Monitor Your Energy Consumption in the Cloud 6. Hack a Commercial Home Automation Device 7. Build Your Own Home Automation System Index

Testing the Arduino system


It's time now to test the Arduino system. Let's do it in the following way:

  • First, take off the chip and place it on the Arduino Uno board, which has to be connected to your computer. To remove the chip from the breadboard or the Arduino Uno board, you can simply use your fingernails or the edge of a knife. Of course, make sure that there is no power flowing through the chip whenever you remove it from a board.

  • Load the Blink sketch that comes with the Arduino IDE and upload the code to the board. You should see that the onboard LED is going on and off continuously.

  • Now, disconnect the board from your computer and remove the microcontroller. Put it back on the breadboard and connect the power with the battery pack. You should see that the LED inserted on the breadboard is going on and off.

If that doesn't work, there are several things you can check. First, make sure that you correctly wired the different parts of the project according to the schematics. Then, make...

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