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ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook

You're reading from ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook Over 50 recipes to help you master the ESP8266's functionality

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787288102

Length 268 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

ESP8266

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Marco Schwartz

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Configuring the ESP8266 FREE CHAPTER

2. Your First ESP8266 Projects

3. More ESP8266 Functions

4. Using MicroPython on the ESP8266

5. Cloud Data Monitoring

6. Interacting with Web Services

7. Machine to Machine Interactions

Index

Controlling a servo motor

In this section, we are going to look at how to use the functionalities of the ESP8266 to control a servo motor. We will be rotating the servo motor to a specific position in either direction at a set speed. This will demonstrate the different servo motor parameters we can control using an ESP8266 board.

Getting ready

Make sure you have all the components before proceeding. They include:

ESP8266 board
Mini USB cable
Micro servo motor (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9065)
Breadboard
Jumper wires

Start by mounting the ESP8266 board onto the breadboard. Use jumper cables to connect the power wires of the servo to the ESP8266 power pins. The power wires of the servo are coloured red for the positive terminal and black/brown for the negative terminal.

Connect the positive terminal to the USB pin of the ESP8266 board and the negative terminal to the GND pin of the ESP8266 board. We connect the positive terminal to the USB pin because it provides 5V, which is within the recommended...

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Authors (1)

Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.

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