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Python Programming for Arduino

Develop practical Internet of Things prototypes and applications with Arduino and Python

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    This is the book for you if you are a student, hobbyist, developer, or designer with little or no programming and hardware prototyping experience, and you want to develop IoT applications.
    If you are a software developer or a hardware designer and want to create connected devices applications, then this book will help you get started.

    What you will learn

    • Design and develop your own hardware prototypes using Arduino
    • Interface Arduino to a computer using the Firmata protocol and Python
    • Acquire handson experience in developing applications for a variety of popular sensors
    • Develop graphical user interfaces to control your components and plots to visualize sensor data
    • Access your Arduino prototype from the Internet
    • Implement messaging protocols for Arduino communication
    • Connect your hardware project to cloudbased services
    • Create advanced Internet of Things applications through projects in the book

    Who this book is for

    This is the book for you if you are a student, hobbyist, developer, or designer with little or no programming and hardware prototyping experience, and you want to develop IoT applications.

    Table of Contents

    1. Getting Started with Python Arduino
    2. Working with Firmata protocol and pySerial library
    3. Your First Project - Blink LEDs
    4. Arduino Prototyping using Python
    5. Working with Python GUI
    6. Storing and Plotting Arduino Data
    7. Midterm project: A portable DIY Thermostat
    8. Introduction to Arduino Networking
    9. Arduino and the Internet of Things
    10. Remote Home Monitoring System
    11. Tweet-a-PowerStrip
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78328-594-5
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 400