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You're reading from Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript Get the best out of Arduino and Raspberry Pi Zero to develop Internet of Things projects using JavaScript

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785888564

Length 298 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Arduino

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Ruben Oliva Ramos

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Zero FREE CHAPTER

2. Connecting Things to the Raspberry Pi Zero

3. Connecting Sensors - Measure the Real Things

4. Control-Connected Devices

5. Adding a Webcam to Monitor Your Security System

6. Building a Web Monitor and Controlling Devices from a Dashboard

7. Building a Spy Police with the Internet of Things Dashboard

8. Monitoring and Controlling Your Devices from a Smart Phone

9. Putting It All Together

Raspberry Pi GPIO header

The following screenshot is a chart of the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi Zero. In this case, we will use the SPI configuration interface (SPI_MOSI, SPI_MISO, SPI_CLK, SPI_CE0_N):

You need to connect the following pins according to the next description:

VDD to 3.3 volts
VREF to 3.3 volts from the Raspberry Pi Zero
Pin AGND to GND
Pin CLK (clock) to GPIO11 of the Raspberry Pi
DOUT to GPIO9
Pin DIN to GPIO10
Pin CS to GPIO8 and the pin
Pin the MCP3008D GND to Ground

This connection is represented in the following figure:

Reading the data with a Python script

In the next section, you will create the MCP3008.py file; you need to follow the next steps:

Open the terminal on your Raspberry Pi Zero.
Enter the interface in your Pi terminal...

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Authors (1)

Ruben Oliva Ramos

Ruben Oliva Ramos is a computer systems engineer from Tecnologico de Leon Institute, with a master's degree in computer and electronic systems engineering and a specialization in teleinformatics and networking from the University of Salle Bajio in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. He has more than 5 years of experience of developing web applications to control and monitor devices connected with Arduino and Raspberry Pi, using web frameworks and cloud services to build the Internet of Things applications. He is a mechatronics teacher at the University of Salle Bajio and teaches students of the master's degree in design and engineering of mechatronics systems. Ruben also works at Centro de Bachillerato Tecnologico Industrial 225 teaching subjects such as electronics, robotics and control, automation, and microcontrollers. He is a consultant and developer for projects in areas such as monitoring systems and datalogger data using technologies (such as Android, iOS, HTML5, and ASP.NET), databases (such as SQlite, MongoDB, and MySQL), web servers, hardware programming, and control and monitor systems for data acquisition and programming.

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