IoT & Hardware

Read out range of IoT and Hardware news, including the latest updates on Google Home, Alexa and Raspberry Pi. Packt Hub also provides guides on how to build your own IoT applications to bring the smart home to you.

Making the Unit Very Mobile – Controlling the Movement of a Robot with Legs

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) The following is an image of a finished project: Even though you've made your robot mobile by...

Testing Your Speed

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Creating the game controller In order to design a controller, we first need to know what sort...

Creating a 3D world to roam in

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) We may be able to create models and objects within our 3D space, as well as...

Case study – modifying a GoPro wrench

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Simply scaling the model is easy to achieve with other programs like Netfabb (www.netfabb.com) or your...

Sending Data to Google Docs

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) The first step is to set up a Google Docs spreadsheet for the project....

Shaping a model with Meshmixer and printing it

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Shaping with Meshmixer Meshmixer was designed to provide a modeling interface that frees the user from working...

Baking Bits with Yocto Project

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Understanding the BitBake tool The BitBake task scheduler started as a fork from Portage, which is the...

Hardware configuration

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The hardware configuration of this project is not really complex. For each motion sensor module you want to build, you'll need to do the...

Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors

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In this article by Richard Grimmett, the author of Arduino Robotic Projects, we'll learn the following topics: How to add sensors to your projects How to...

Choosing the airframe and propellers for your Multicopter

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In this article by Ty Audronis, the author of Building Multicopter Video Drone, the process and thought process required to choose a few of...