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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Door lock/unlock based on voice commands

In this section, we'll just open and close a door based on voice commands. Similar to the previous section, where we switched an LED on and off using voice commands such as ON and OFF, here we are going to do a similar thing using a servo motor. The main target is to make the readers understand the core concepts of the Intel Edison where we use voice commands to perform different tasks. The question may arise, why are we using servo motors?

A servo motor, unlike normal DC motors, rotates up to a specific angle set by the operator. In normal scenarios, controlling the lock of a door may use a relay. The usage of relays was discussed in Chapter 3, Intel Edison and IoT (Home Automation).

Let us also explore the use of servo motors so that we can widen the spectrum of controlling devices. In this case, when a servo is set to 0 degrees, it is unlocked and when it is set to...