It's IoT Week at SitePoint! All week we're publishing articles focused on the intersection of the internet and the physical world, so keep checking the IoT tag for the latest updates.
A whole week of mostly IoT resources on every channel and, yes, that includes PHP. What? "PHP and IoT!? Surely you're mistaken!", you must be thinking. No, dear reader. PHP and IoT go well together - better than one might expect.
In this post, we'll list some getting started resources. Throughout the remainder of the week, we'll have some amazing hands on posts for you - everything from creating a drinks machine with PHP, to a real life alarm when a door in Minecraft opens (yes, really!) - and that's just on our channel. Be sure to check out the others, too!
Without further ado, here's some introductory material for you if you feel like dabbling before we dive in properly!
Hardware
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- When starting out, it's sometimes difficult to know how to use electronic components, or how to plug them into a circuit. This little guide by the excellent Christopher Pitt is helpful for figuring out a handful of common components.
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- Arduino is a neat hobbyist development platform. It abstracts the steps from resisters and wires to functional computation. You program Arduino boards using C/C++, and this guide will fill in the details to get you started...
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by Bruno Skvorc via SitePoint
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