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

Setting up Raspberry Pi Zero

The Raspberry Pi is a low-cost board dedicated to purpose projects. Here, we will use a Raspberry Pi Zero board. Take a look at the following link: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

Next, insert the micro SD card into your computer using an adapter. (An adapter is usually given with the SD card.)

Then download Win32DiskImager from https://www.adafruit.com/products/954:

Debugging your Raspberry Pi Zero with a serial console cable

Testing and accessing the serial COM interface

Once the driver is installed, we have here the Port COM, which is already installed:

Tip

This configuration is for Windows installation; if you have different operating system, you need to do different steps.

How get the Device Manager screen: On your windows PC, click on the Start icon, go to Control Panel, select System, and then click on Device Manager.

In the following screenshot, you can see the device manager of the USB serial port:

Testing and accessing the serial COM interface

The default username for the Raspberry Pi Zero is pi, and the password is raspberry:

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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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