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IoT Projects: Physical Email Alert

Course details
How do you create a physical alert for virtual data? With a Raspberry Pi, a few electronic components, and some time, you can build a device that lets you know how much email your inbox contains. This course helps you explore the Internet of Things (IoT) through this fun sample project. Learn about the Pi, servos, building a case, and assembling a finished-looking project. Instructor Marc de Vinck explains what tools, software, and other equipment you need to get started, and then shows how to put together the hardware, code your device, and complete it with a simple enclosure and wiring. Plus, discover other things you can do with an email-triggered device, like automating tasks around the home.


Introduction to the life connected
“ - Hi, I'm Marc De Vinck, and welcome to the first of what I hope to be a series of Internet of Things projects. In today's project, I'll be taking the Raspberry Pi Zero, which is about a 10 or $15 single board computer, and connecting it with a servo and a button, to build this email notification display. I like the idea of not having an actual LCD screen, or an LED to let me know that my unread messages is ever increasing and I need to address 'em, and what this display does is it has a little flag on the top that slowly raises and lowers, based on how many unread emails there are. I'll go over the code, the design of this, and how I built everything. It's a really fun project. And it's not necessarily about just building this, it's about being able to connect the virtual world with the physical world, whether it be a button, a servo, incoming emails or texts, how can I react to a digital signal in a physical way? So, let's get started.