M5Stack Electronic Blueprints

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M5Stack Electronic Blueprints

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To my children Tiana, D’Vonn, and D’Mar, for allowing me to see them grow into wonderful young adults and for supporting my work as an electrical engineer, educator, scholar, researcher, and author. To Juwon, for asking critical questions about the M5Stack Core projects demonstrated in my lab. To my granddaughter Winter, for allowing me to play and learn through her eyes as a child. To Larita and Matthew, thank you for embracing me as your son. To my natural parents, thank you for providing a strong work ethic and an educational mindset. To my wife, Dr. Mattalene Wilcher, for being my loving partner throughout our joint life journey.

– Dr. Don Wilcher

Foreword

Don Wilcher has succeeded again with this new book about using the economical M5Stack Core microcontroller. This remarkable controller is designed to interface with a variety of circuits simply by stacking them atop the compact 5 cm x 5 cm M5Stack Core package. This and its block coding capability greatly simplify the design and implementation of compact controller packages for use in robotics, automation, wireless controllers, scientific applications, and a wide variety of other projects.

If you want to get up to speed with integrating one of the latest microcontrollers with a variety of external devices and circuits, this book is for you. Don is a hands-on engineer with outstanding communication skills. Moreover, he has built, programmed, and tested the systems he describes in this book. I was especially interested in Chapter 2’s description of interfacing an M5Stack Core microcontroller with a tri-color LED, and there’s much, much more in this remarkable book.

Don Wilcher is a master electronics communicator, and I am pleased to recommend this book to hobbyists, educators, companies, and anyone interested in designing, assembling, and programming an M5Stack Core microcontroller.

Forrest M. Mims II

www.forrestmims.org

“One of the 50 best brains in science.” Discover Magazine

Contributors

About the author

Dr. Don Wilcher is an electrical engineer, educator, maker, scholar, researcher, and entrepreneur experienced in mechatronics, embedded control systems, and electrical-electronics technologies. He has worked in a variety of product, systems engineering, management, and supervisory roles in the consumer, manufacturing, and automotive industries. He has extensive experience in designing and analyzing electromechanical and electronic control systems and prototyping wearable devices. Besides his industrial experience, Dr. Don Wilcher has reviewed the curriculum and industry standards for engineering, STEM, career, and technical education programs. He has redesigned technical courses in manufacturing, robotics, and mechatronics, and developed instructional materials for such curricula. He has designed and delivered webinars on emerging technologies such as embedded IoT, physical computing, mobile robotics concepts, and electronics prototyping methods. Currently, Dr. Don Wilcher is providing consultancy around virtual reality mechatronics, plant safety, and robotics course modules with industry standards alignment, writing technical and maker space project articles for EETech Media. He is actively involved in developing and delivering emerging engineering webinars for the Design News Continuing Education Center.

I want to thank my colleagues who have been close to me and supported me, and especially my wife Mattalene, my children, my friends, and my parents.

About the reviewer

Lensey C. King Jr. has worked in the electrical industry for three decades as a residential, commercial, and industrial electrician. He has received an Associate in Applied Science degree in automotive/automated manufacturing technology from Jefferson State Community College. Lensey is a licensed master electrician/electrical contractor for the states of AL, GA, and VA. He is working as a business development manager and partner of Multi-Skill Training Services in Alabama, where he is responsible for closing the “skills gap” in the manufacturing industries by offering customized industrial maintenance training. He is also the owner of EM&T, an electrical contracting company that focuses on maintenance service work and EV charging station repair.

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