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Arduino for Secret Agents

You're reading from   Arduino for Secret Agents Transform your tiny Arduino device into a secret agent gadget to build a range of espionage projects with this practical guide for hackers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783986088
Length 170 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Schwartz Marco Schwartz
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Simple Alarm System with Arduino 2. Creating a Spy Microphone FREE CHAPTER 3. Building an EMF Bug Detector 4. Access Control with a Fingerprint Sensor 5. Opening a Lock with an SMS 6. Building a Cloud Spy Camera 7. Monitoring Secret Data from Anywhere 8. Creating a GPS Tracker with Arduino 9. Building an Arduino Spy Robot Index

Monitoring the device remotely


We are now going to see how to access the data stored on dweet.io and display it graphically. For that, we are going to use a website called freeboard.io. You can go there with the following URL http://freeboard.io/.

This is the main welcome screen where you need to create an account:

Once you have an account, you can create a new board:

Once this is done, you should be redirected to a similar page showing an empty board:

First, we need to set a datasource, meaning that we need to tell Freeboard to get data from the dweet thing we are storing the data in. Add a new datasource and fill out the fields as shown in the following screenshot, with the name of the thing that stores your data of course:

After that, you will see the datasource appearing at top of your board, with the last update date:

It's now time to add some graphical elements to our dashboard. We'll first add one for the temperature. Click on a new pane, which will create a new block inside the dashboard...

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