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Raspberry Pi and MQTT Essentials

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi and MQTT Essentials A complete guide to helping you build innovative full-scale prototype projects using Raspberry Pi and MQTT protocol

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803244488
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhairya Parikh Dhairya Parikh
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Covering the Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Raspberry Pi and MQTT FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: MQTT in Detail 4. Chapter 3: Introduction to ESP Development Boards 5. Chapter 4: Node-RED on Raspberry Pi 6. Part 2: Practical Implementation – Building Two Full-Scale Projects
7. Chapter 5: Major Project 1: IoT Weather Station 8. Chapter 6: Major Project 2: Smart Home Control Relay System 9. Part 3: How to Take Things Further – What Next?
10. Chapter 7: Taking Your MQTT Broker Global 11. Chapter 8: Project Prototype to Product – How? 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

ESP32-based development board

ESP32 is often considered a successor to the NodeMCU development board. It is yet another open source board designed by Espressif specifically for prototyping mobile devices, wearable electronics, and IoT applications.

The main upgrade over the last generation chip is a hybrid Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip, which can help you provide an additional connection protocol to your application. Note that the ESP32 dev boards have a single antenna, so only one of the two protocols can be used at a given time.

The following figure shows what the development looks like. The form factor is similar to the NodeMCU development board but with some notable differences:

Figure 3.7 – ESP32 DEVKIT V1

We will be using this particular model of the ESP32 board in this book, but the information given here will be also applicable for its other versions as they are all powered by the same chip.

An overview of the ESP32 specifications is as follows...

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