Lesson 3: Interact with the Physical World with Sensors and Actuators

This session is part of a month-long series.
#JulyOT is back for 2021! Throughout the month of July, the IoT Cloud Advocacy team will be sharing content and events put together by IoT enthusiasts from around the world. This includes content from community members, Microsoft employees, and could even involve you! For every working day in July, we’ll focus on a featured content piece from our curated collection at the IoT Tech Community. We hope to inspire curious minds to pursue their own Internet of Things journey. Get more info here: https://aka.ms/JulyOTContentforEveryone

For more from Jim’s series visit: https://aka.ms/HelloIoTSeriesPage
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This lesson introduces two of the important concepts for your IoT device – sensors and actuators. Sensors read data from the physical world, actuators control it, and this lesson looks in more depth at how this happens, covering analog and digital hardware (and what these terms mean). You will also see how to build a nightlight with a microcontroller, using sensor data to control an actuator.

Speaker:
Jim Bennett, Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Jim does things with IoT and Azure in the Developer Relations team at Microsoft, mainly creating content for students and faculty to help them be successful with Microsoft technologies. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and is happy he moved to Redmond in time to be locked down at home and not see the office he came to work in, or the places he wanted to visit. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He also hates cats, but has an 8 year old daughter who loves cats, so he has 2 cats.

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