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ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288102
Pages 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
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 (15) Chapters

ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Configuring the ESP8266 2. Your First ESP8266 Projects 3. More ESP8266 Functions 4. Using MicroPython on the ESP8266 5. Cloud Data Monitoring 6. Interacting with Web Services 7. Machine to Machine Interactions Index

Introduction

In this chapter, we will learn how to configure and control an ESP8266 board using MicroPython. MicroPython is one of the many programming languages that we can use to program the ESP8266 module. It is a lean and fast version of the Python 3 programming language and has several advantages over traditional programming languages such as C and C++.

The first advantage is that Python is a very well-known programming language. Therefore, there are numerous resources and libraries available online. This comes in handy when working on your open source projects.

Writing and debugging code using MicroPython is faster than when using other programming languages. In fact, it is about five times faster than C++. It is also easier to program using MicroPython because it is expressive and versatile, which makes it great for beginners.

MicroPython is great for low power applications, as the chip consumes less power when booting with MicroPython. This makes devices very energy efficient and ideal...

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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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