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  • Planning

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    Start by thinking about what you want to achieve and what bits and pieces you’ll need. This project will use common gardening electric water valves, available in home improvement stores. While at the store, you will also need one power supply, or transformer, suitable for these water valves. How to use a MOSFET to control a…

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    What you had learned about Arduino into a project, the Arduino Networked Lamp. Part of the fun was to combine some of the simple exercises into a practical project. You also learned about the Processing language and how to use it to create a proxy on your computer to do things that would be difficult…

  • Arduino Cloud Plans

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    The Arduino Cloud is free for a lot of users but if you want to be able to control a lot of devices or share dashboards with somebody else you might need to purchase a plan. They start at $1.99 a month. You can see the different plans here https://store.arduino.cc/digital/create

  • Features of the Arduino IoT Cloud

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    Beside “bridging” between devices, the Arduino IoT Cloud provides a lot of useful features: You can find more detailed information at https://cloud.arduino.cc.

  • IoT Cloud

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    An IoT Cloud is an online service that can act as a bridge between your connected devices and, for example, a mobile app, a web dashboard or even other devices. If you have an IoT-compatible Arduino or similar board, the IoT Cloud service will detect when it is connected. However, if you are using a…

  • Project Hub

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    One very powerful feature of the Arduino Cloud is “Project Hub”, a place where you can find literally thousands of tutorials and projects for any Arduino board, covering all sorts of topics: from music to installations, from home automation to gardening, from pet feeders to robots. Some of the projects are very sophisticated and very…

  • Arduino Cloud IDE

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    The Arduino Cloud IDE (previously known as Arduino Create) is a cloud based development environment for Arduino which can be used with any modern internet browser. Very simply, you can login from anywhere in the world to a fully functional Arduino IDE which stores your code in the cloud. This is particularly useful if you’re…

  • Introduction

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    The Arduino Cloud is an online service developed by Arduino which allows anybody to build and manage connected devices just using a browser. It’s main modules are:

  • Here’s How to Assemble It

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    Unpack the lamp and remove the cable that goes into the lamp from the bottom. You will no longer be plugging this into the wall. You can use a rubber band to strap the Arduino to the breadboard, and then hot-glue the breadboard onto the back of the lamp, as shown in Figure 6-1. Leave some room…

  • Assembling the Circuit

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    Figure 6-2 shows how to assemble the circuit. Just as you did in “Controlling Light with PWM” use a 220-ohm resistor (red-red-brown) with each LED, and just as you did in “Analogue Input”, use a 10 K ohm resistor with the photoresistor. Remember from “Controlling Light with PWM” that LEDs are polarized: in this circuit, the anode (long lead, positive) should go to…