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Intel Edison Projects

By : Basu

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Intel Edison Projects

By: Basu

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Overview of this book

Change the way you look at embedded electronics with Intel Edison. It is a small computing platform packed with a set of robust features to deliver hands-on performance, durability, and software support. This book is a perfect place to kickstart development and rapid prototyping using Intel Edison. It will start by introducing readers to the Intel Edison board and explaining how to get started with it. You will learn how to build a mini weather station, which will help you to acquire temperature and smoke level and push it to the IoT platform. Then you will see how to build a home automation device and control your appliances using an Android app. Furthermore, we will build a security system using a webcam to detect faces and perform voice recognition. Toward the end, the book will demonstrate how you can build two robots, which will be based on different line sensing sensors and can be controlled by a PC. The book will guide the readers through each and every step of execution of a project, using Intel Edison.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Setting up Intel Edison

Initial hardware setup

Arduino IDE

Intel XDK for IoT (Node.js)

Summary

Weather Station (IoT)

Overview of IoT and its usage

Open-ended task for the reader

Summary

Intel Edison and IoT (Home Automation)

Controlling devices using the Internet - concepts

REST services

Instructions or alerts (present on most IoT platforms)

Architecture

Using Intel Edison to push data by using the MQTT protocol

Getting data to Edison by using MQTT

Home automation using Intel Edison, MQTT, Android, and WPF

Android application for controlling Intel Edison using MQTT

Windows Presentation Foundation application for controlling using MQTT

Open-ended task for the reader

Summary

Intel Edison and Security System

Speech/voice processing using Edison

Door lock/unlock based on voice commands

Image processing using the Intel Edison

Real-time video display using OpenCV

Face detection theory

Intel Edison code

Open-ended task for the reader

Summary

Autonomous Robotics with Intel Edison

Architecture of a typical robotic system

Intel Edison as a controller

Connecting sensors to the Intel Edison

Actuators - DC motors and servos

More advanced motor drivers

Line follower robot (patching everything together)

Proportional integral derivative - based control

Open-ended question for the reader

Summary

Manual Robotics with Intel Edison

Manual robotic system

Chassis in robotics: 2WD and 4WD

Making the system wireless

WPF application for LED on and off

High performance motor driver sample with code

4WD UGV (black-e-track)

Universal robot controller for UGV

Open-ended question for the reader

Summary

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Intel Edison and Security System

In previous chapters, we learned how we can use the Intel Edison to develop applications related to IoT where we displayed live sensor data and also controlled the Edison itself. We also learned the development of an Android and a WPF app that was used to control the Intel Edison. Well, this chapter is more on the local front of the Intel Edison where we are going to use the built-in features of the device. This chapter is concentrated mainly on two key points:

Speech and voice processing with the Intel Edison
Image processing with the Intel Edison

All the codes are to be written in Python, so some parts of the chapter will concentrate on Python programming as well. In this chapter, we'll operate the Intel Edison using voice commands and then ultimately detect faces using the Intel Edison and a webcam. This chapter will thus explore the core capabilities of the Intel Edison...