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Hands-On Internet of Things with MQTT

You're reading from   Hands-On Internet of Things with MQTT Build connected IoT devices with Arduino and MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341782
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits About Packt Contributors Preface 1. The Internet of Things in a Nutshell FREE CHAPTER 2. Basic Architecture of an IoT Prototype 3. Getting Started with MQTT 4. Setting Up a Lab Environment 5. Building Your Own Automatic Pet Food Dispenser 6. Building a Smart E-Ink To-Do List 7. Building a Smart Productivity Cube, Part 1 8. Building a Smart Productivity Cube, Part 2 9. Presenting Your Own Prototype 1. Assessments 2. Other Books You May Enjoy

Detecting orientation changes

The easiest approach to detect orientation changes of our cube would be to place the following code at the end of our loop function:

if (previousSide != currentSide) {
Serial.print("Side: "); Serial.println(currentSide);
previousSide = currentSide;
}

But the easiest approach is not always the best one. The problem with this approach is that when we switch sides, another side might be detected in between. For example, let's say the cube was lying on the bottom side and you wanted to place it on its top side. While rotating it, it would (for a very short time) detect that it is placed on the side in between, even though we are just rotating it by hand and it does not rest on this side.

To overcome this problem, we should only detect a side change when the last x values were all recorded on the same side. To get this right, we...

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