Week 11
Assignment - Networking and Communications
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Group assignment:
- Send a message between two projects
- Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned
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Individual assignment:
- Design, build and connect wired or wireless node(s) with network or bus addresses and a local input and/or output device(s)
From Assignment Details
Group Assignment
Move to group page:
xxx First version is a slightly modified Arduino example, that will write to the Serial Monitor.
I installed the ArduinoMQTTClient library in the Arduino IDE, and then opened the example from the File>Examples menu.
I updated the file called arduino_secrets.h, using the credentials Julian gave us access to, so I could use the shared Fab Academy MQTT Broker.
#define SECRET_SSID ""
#define SECRET_PASS ""
#define SECRET_BROKER "mqtt.fabcloud.org"
#define SECRET_PORT 1883
#define SECRET_TOPIC "fabacademy/etc"
#define SECRET_USER "fabacademy"
#define SECRET_PSK "fabacademy"
I am pretty sure my issue at the moment is my University network. I will try again with my phone’s hotspot…
Reflection
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