* Fixed typos and broken links
The link to hardware.md was broken in majority of the files that I have read, I fixed it in addition to correcting some typos.
* Update README.md
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Like a microcontroller, single-board computers have a CPU, memory and input/output pins, but they have additional features such as a graphics chip to allow you to connect monitors, audio outputs, and USB ports to connect keyboards mice and other standard USB devices like webcams or external storage. Programs are stored on SD cards or hard drives along with an operating system, instead of a memory chip built into the board.
> 🎓 You can think of a single-board computer as a smaller, cheaper version of the PC or Mac you are reading this on, with the addition of GPIO pins to interact with sensors and actuators.
> 🎓 You can think of a single-board computer as a smaller, cheaper version of the PC or Mac you are reading this on, with the addition of GPIO (general-purpose input/output) pins to interact with sensors and actuators.
SIngle-board computers are fully-featured computers, so can be programmed in any language. IoT devices are typically programmed in Python.
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All the subsequent lessons include assignments using an IoT device to interact with the physical world, and communicate with the cloud. Each lesson supports 3 device choices - Arduino (using a Seeed Studios Wio Terminal), or a single-board computer, either a physical device (a Raspberry Pi 4), or a virtual single-board computer running on your PC or Mac.
You can read about the hardware needed to complete all the assignments in the [hardware guide](../../hardware.md).
You can read about the hardware needed to complete all the assignments in the [hardware guide](../../../hardware.md).
> 💁 You don't need to purchase any IoT hardware to complete the assignments, you can do everything using a virtual single-board computer.
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Industrial IoT, or IIoT, is the use of IoT devices to control and manage machinery on a large scale. This covers a wide range of use cases, from factories to digital agriculture.
Factories use IoT devices in many different ways. Machinery can be monitored with multiple sensors to track things like temperature, vibration and rotation speed. This data can then be monitored to allow the machine to be stopped if it goes outside of certain tolerances - it runs to hot and gets shut down for example. This data can also be gathered and analyzed over time to do predictive maintenance, where AI models will look at the data leading up to a failure, and use that to predict other failures before they happen.
Factories use IoT devices in many different ways. Machinery can be monitored with multiple sensors to track things like temperature, vibration and rotation speed. This data can then be monitored to allow the machine to be stopped if it goes outside of certain tolerances - it runs too hot and gets shut down for example. This data can also be gathered and analyzed over time to do predictive maintenance, where AI models will look at the data leading up to a failure, and use that to predict other failures before they happen.
Digital agriculture is important if the planet is to feed the growing population, especially for the 2 billion people in 500 million households that survive on [subsistence farming](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture). Digital agriculture can range from a few single digit dollar sensors, to massive commercial setups. A farmer can start by monitoring temperatures and using [growing degree days](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_degree-day) to predict when a crop will be ready for harvest. They can connect soil moisture monitoring to automated watering systems to give their plants as much water as is needed, but no more to ensure their crops don't dry out without wasting water. Farmers are even taking it further and using drones, satellite data and AI to monitor crop growth, disease and soil quality over huge areas of farmland.
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* Lights
* Fitness and health trackers
All these types of devices have sensors and/or actuators and talk to the Internet. I can tell from my phone if my garage door is open, and ask my smart speaker to close it for me. I can even set it to a timer so if it's still open at night, it will close automatically. When my doorbell rings, I can see from my phone who is there wherever I am in the world, and talk to them via a speaker and microphone built into the doorbell. I can monitor my blood glucose, heart rate and sleep patterns, looking for patterns in the data to improve my health. And I can control my lights via the cloud, and sit in the dark when my Internet connection goes down.
All these types of devices have sensors and/or actuators and talk to the Internet. I can tell from my phone if my garage door is open, and ask my smart speaker to close it for me. I can even set it to a timer so if it's still open at night, it will close automatically. When my doorbell rings, I can see from my phone who is there wherever I am in the world, and talk to them via a speaker and microphone built into the doorbell. I can monitor my blood glucose, heart rate and sleep patterns, looking for patterns in the data to improve my health. I can control my lights via the cloud, and sit in the dark when my Internet connection goes down.
There are many large and small scale IoT projects being rolled out globally, from smart farms to smart cities, healthcare monitoring, transport, or the use of public spaces.
Search the web for details of a project that interests you, ideally one close you where you live. Explain the upsides and the downsides of the project, such as what benefit comes from it, any problems it causes and how privacy is taken into consideration.
Search the web for details of a project that interests you, ideally one close to where you live. Explain the upsides and the downsides of the project, such as what benefit comes from it, any problems it causes and how privacy is taken into consideration.
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* Read the [Arduino getting started guide](https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction) to understand more about the Arduino platform.
* Read the [introduction to the Raspberry Pi 4](https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/) to learn more about Raspberry Pis.
✅ Use these guides, along with the costs shown by following the links in the [hardware guide](../../hardware.md) to decide on what hardware platform you want to use, or if you would rather use a virtual device.
✅ Use these guides, along with the costs shown by following the links in the [hardware guide](../../../hardware.md) to decide on what hardware platform you want to use, or if you would rather use a virtual device.
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Some of the most basic sensors are analog sensors. These sensors receive a voltage from the IoT device, the sensor components adjust this voltage, and the voltage that is returned from the sensor is measured to give the sensor value.
> 🎓 Voltage is a measure of how mush push there is to move electricity from one place to another, such as from a positive terminal of a battery to the negative terminal. For example, a standard AA battery is 1.5V (V is the symbol for volts), and can push electricity with the force of 1.5V from it's positive terminal to its negative terminal. Different electrical hardware requires different voltages to work, for example an LED can light with between 2-3V, but a 100W filament lightbulb would need 240V. You can read more about voltage on the [Voltage page on Wikipedia](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage).
> 🎓 Voltage is a measure of how much push there is to move electricity from one place to another, such as from a positive terminal of a battery to the negative terminal. For example, a standard AA battery is 1.5V (V is the symbol for volts), and can push electricity with the force of 1.5V from it's positive terminal to its negative terminal. Different electrical hardware requires different voltages to work, for example an LED can light with between 2-3V, but a 100W filament lightbulb would need 240V. You can read more about voltage on the [Voltage page on Wikipedia](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage).
One example of this is a potentiometer. This is a dial that you can rotate between two positions and the sensor measures the rotation.
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***A potentiometer. Microcontroller by Template / dial by Jamie Dickinson - all from the [Noun Project](https://thenounproject.com)***
The IoT device will send an electrical signal to the potentiometer at a voltage, such as 5 volts (5V). As the potentiometer is adjusted it changes the voltage that comes out the other side. Imagine you have a potentiometer labelled as a dial that goes from 0 to [11](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven), such as a volume knob on an amplifier. When the potentiometer is in the full off position (0) then 0v (0 volts) will come out. When it is in the full on position (11), 5V (5 volts) will come out.
The IoT device will send an electrical signal to the potentiometer at a voltage, such as 5 volts (5V). As the potentiometer is adjusted it changes the voltage that comes out of the other side. Imagine you have a potentiometer labelled as a dial that goes from 0 to [11](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven), such as a volume knob on an amplifier. When the potentiometer is in the full off position (0) then 0v (0 volts) will come out. When it is in the full on position (11), 5V (5 volts) will come out.
> 🎓 This is an oversimplification, and you can read more on potentiometers and variable resistors on the [potentiometer Wikipedia page](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentiometer).
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#### Analog to digital conversion
IoT devices are digital - they can't work with analog values, they only work with 0s and 1s. This means that analog sensor values need to be converted to a digital signal before they can be processed. Many IoT devices have analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) to convert analog inputs to digital representations of their value. Sensors can also work with ADCs via a connector board. For example, in the Seeed Grove ecosystem with a Raspberry Pi, analog sensors connect to specific ports on a 'hat' that sits on the Pi connected to the Pis GPIO pins, and this hat has an ADC to convert the voltage into a digital signal that can be sent of the Pi's GPIO pins.
IoT devices are digital - they can't work with analog values, they only work with 0s and 1s. This means that analog sensor values need to be converted to a digital signal before they can be processed. Many IoT devices have analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) to convert analog inputs to digital representations of their value. Sensors can also work with ADCs via a connector board. For example, in the Seeed Grove ecosystem with a Raspberry Pi, analog sensors connect to specific ports on a 'hat' that sits on the Pi connected to the Pi's GPIO pins, and this hat has an ADC to convert the voltage into a digital signal that can be sent off the Pi's GPIO pins.
Imagine you have an analog light sensor connected to an IoT device that uses 3.3V, and is returning a value of 1v. This 1v doesn't mean anything in the digital world, so needs to be converted. The voltage will be converted to an analog value using a scale depending on the device and sensor. One example is the Seeed Grove light sensor which outputs values from 0 to 1,023. For this sensor running at 3.3V, a 1v output would be a value of 300. An IoT device can't handle 300 as an analog value, so the value would be converted to `0000000100101100`, the binary representation of 300 by the Grove hat. This would then be processed by the IoT device.
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## Hardware
The sensor for this lesson is a **light sensor** that uses a [photodiode](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodiode) to convert light to an electrical signal. This is an analog sensor that sends an integer value from 0 to 1,000 indicating a relative amount of light that doesn't map to any standard unit of measurement such as [lux](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux).
The sensor for this lesson is a **light sensor** that uses a [photodiode](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodiode) to convert light to an electrical signal. This is an analog sensor that sends an integer value from 0 to 1,023 indicating a relative amount of light that doesn't map to any standard unit of measurement such as [lux](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux).
The light sensor is an eternal Grove sensor and needs to be connected to the Grove Base hat on the Raspberry Pi.
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