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MicroPython Cookbook

By : Marwan Alsabbagh
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MicroPython Cookbook

By: Marwan Alsabbagh

Overview of this book

MicroPython is an open source implementation of Python 3 that runs in embedded environments. With MicroPython, you can write clean and simple Python code to control hardware instead of using complex low-level languages such as C and C++. This book guides you through all the major applications of the MicroPython platform to build and program projects that use microcontrollers. This MicroPython book covers recipes that will help you experiment with the programming environment and hardware programmed in MicroPython. You'll find tips and techniques for building a variety of objects and prototypes that can sense and respond to touch, sound, position, heat, and light. This book will take you through the uses of MicroPython with a variety of popular input devices and sensors. You'll learn techniques to handle time delays and sensor readings, and apply advanced coding techniques to create complex projects. As you advance, you'll deal with Internet of Things (IoT) devices and integration with other online web services. In addition to this, you'll use MicroPython to make music with bananas and create portable multiplayer video games that incorporate sound and light animations into the gameplay. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered the tips and tricks to troubleshoot your development problems and take your MicroPython project to the next level.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Retrieving weather data from the internet

This recipe will show you how to connect to the internet using the ESP8266 and fetch live weather data using RESTful web services. The service that we will be using has up-to-date weather information for over 100,000 cities around the world. A very large amount of weather information for each location is provided, so this recipe will show how we can drill down to the items that are of most interest to us.

This recipe can be useful in your projects whenever you need to pass different parameters to a RESTful call or when the returned results are very large and you need to find ways to navigate through these large datasets.

Getting ready

You will need access to the REPL on the ESP8266...