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Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz
Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz
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Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Algoma University, Canada. He has taught microcontroller programming and interfacing, human-computer interaction, and interaction design courses. Miguel has a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Sussex University, England. He has published articles on tinkering with technology applying microcontroller boards. Miguel has conducted research projects funded by Canada's Northern Ontario Heritage Fund (NOHFC), Algoma University, and the Mexican Ministry of Education.
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Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla
Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla
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Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla

Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla is a research professor at the School of Telematics at the University of Colima in Mexico. His research interests focus on human-computer interaction, ICT for elderly people, Internet of Things, and machine learning. He is currently serving as president of the Mexican Association on Human-Computer Interaction (AMexIHC). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and ACM and serves as Chair of the Mexican ACM SIGCHI Chapter (CHI-Mexico). Pedro is a member of the Mexican Academy of Computing (AMexComp) and the Mexican Society of Computer Science (SMCC).
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Writing a program to read the gas concentration over the sensor board

In this section, we will learn how to code a program to read data from our gas sensor and show it on the serial monitor if gas is present in the environment.

As in the previous section, we'll first learn how to read data digitally and also in analog form.

Coding for digital reading

Let's start writing the code:

  1. Define which pin of the STM32 Blue Pill microcontroller will be used as input for reading the data from the sensor. Here's the code that shows how to do that:
    const int sensorPin = PB12;
    boolean sensorValue = true;

    The selected pin was PB12 (labeled B12 on the Blue Pill board). A Boolean variable was declared and initialized to true. This variable will be used for storing the sensor data.

  2. Next, in the setup() part, we need to start the serial data transmission and assign the speed of the transfer (9600 bps as a standard value):
    void setup() {
      Serial.begin(9600)...
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Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz

Miguel Angel Garcia-Ruiz is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Algoma University, Canada. He has taught microcontroller programming and interfacing, human-computer interaction, and interaction design courses. Miguel has a PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Sussex University, England. He has published articles on tinkering with technology applying microcontroller boards. Miguel has conducted research projects funded by Canada's Northern Ontario Heritage Fund (NOHFC), Algoma University, and the Mexican Ministry of Education.
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Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla

Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla is a research professor at the School of Telematics at the University of Colima in Mexico. His research interests focus on human-computer interaction, ICT for elderly people, Internet of Things, and machine learning. He is currently serving as president of the Mexican Association on Human-Computer Interaction (AMexIHC). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and ACM and serves as Chair of the Mexican ACM SIGCHI Chapter (CHI-Mexico). Pedro is a member of the Mexican Academy of Computing (AMexComp) and the Mexican Society of Computer Science (SMCC).
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