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DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists

DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists

By : Garcia-Ruiz, Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla
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DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists

DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists

4.5 (17)
By: Garcia-Ruiz, Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla

Overview of this book

We live in a world surrounded by electronic devices, and microcontrollers are the brains of these devices. Microcontroller programming is an essential skill in the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), and this book helps you to get up to speed with it by working through projects for designing and developing embedded apps with microcontroller boards. DIY Microcontroller Projects for Hobbyists are filled with microcontroller programming C and C++ language constructs. You'll discover how to use the Blue Pill (containing a type of STM32 microcontroller) and Curiosity Nano (containing a type of PIC microcontroller) boards for executing your projects as PIC is a beginner-level board and STM-32 is an ARM Cortex-based board. Later, you'll explore the fundamentals of digital electronics and microcontroller board programming. The book uses examples such as measuring humidity and temperature in an environment to help you gain hands-on project experience. You'll build on your knowledge as you create IoT projects by applying more complex sensors. Finally, you'll find out how to plan for a microcontroller-based project and troubleshoot it. By the end of this book, you'll have developed a firm foundation in electronics and practical PIC and STM32 microcontroller programming and interfacing, adding valuable skills to your professional portfolio.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Chapter 3: Turning an LED On or Off Using a Push Button

In this chapter, we will review and practice how to turn an LED on or off using a push button connected to a microcontroller board. A push button is a practical component that acts like a switch and is used for closing or opening an electronic circuit. We can use them to initialize or activate a process in a microcontroller board. Consequently, the input data provided by a push button is important in many microcontroller applications that require human intervention. Specifically, we will cover the following main topics in this chapter:

  • Introducing push buttons
  • Understanding electrical noise from push buttons
  • Connecting an LED to a microcontroller board port and using an internal pull-up resistor
  • Testing out the push button

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to connect a push button to the Curiosity Nano and the Blue Pill microcontroller boards, as well as how to program the push button...

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