IoT for beginners with Seeed and Microsoft - Wio Terminal Starter Kit

This Wio Terminal Starter Kit is made for IoT beginners by Seeed and Microsoft. The hardware includes a Wio Terminal provided by Seeed, a variety of optional Grove, other mods, etc. Wio Terminal comes with multifunctional Grove ports, supports Bluetooth and WiFi, an excellent hardware platform for IoT projects. Use this Wio Terminal Starter Kit to learn the basics of the Internet of Things with this free 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum from Microsoft Cloud Advocates. Key Features Free curriculum support: 12-week, 24-lesson free course on IoT basics offered by Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft Great Hardware Platform for IoT Projects: Wio Terminal, a highly integrated device with 2.4" LCD screen, MCU, IMU, WIFI, BT, and more useful add-ons installed in a compact enclosure that allows you to easily set up your IoT projects Ultra-low threshold entry experience: easy-to-use hardware deployment, plug-and-play Grove, and a beginner-friendly programming platform Scientific and complete curriculum: project-based teaching method, a proven way for new skills to 'stick' Hands-on lessons spanning real projects: help develop the ability to think about IoT solutions and learn in the face of real-world problems Immediately visible learning effects: pre- and post-class quizzes, completed written instructions, etc., to ensure effective basic knowledge learning and projects output Syllabus Objectives and Expected Outcomes There are 24 project-based lessons and that includes frequent quizzes. Students not only can learn the basic principles of IoT to build their first 'Hello World' IoT project, but they will also go through all projects covering the journey of food from farm to table, including farming, logistics, manufacturing, retail, and consumer - all popular industry areas for IoT devices. By the end of this series, students will build the following projects with Wio Terminal use in real-world: A plant monitoring and watering system A vehicle tracker A smart factory setup to track and check food A voice-controlled cooking timer Students will also learn the basics of the Internet of Things including: How to write device code How to connect to the cloud How to analyze telemetry and run AI on edge This kit is built with Wio Terminal. You can also choose the kit for Raspberry Pi 4. Each platform has its own upsides and downsides, and these are all covered in one of the initial lessons. Review that lesson to decide which hardware platform you are most interested in learning. If you want to make your IoT project smarter, but don't know how to start adding "AI" to your next IoT project. Don't worry and take it easy, a new "SenseCAP K1100 - Sensor Prototyping Kit with LoRa® and AI" will make it easy to get started. This kit allows users of all backgrounds and levels to create DIY sensors for data collection and solve real-world challenges. About this curriculum Learn the basics of the Internet of Things with this free 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum from the Microsoft Cloud Advocates. Build prototypes of real-world IoT projects as you learn all about IoT whilst following the journey of food from farm to table. Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum all about IoT basics. Each lesson includes pre- and post-lesson quizzes, written instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, an assignment, and more. Our project-based pedagogy allows you to learn while building, a proven way for new skills to 'stick'. You may also need the following parts: ArduCam Mini 2MP Plus - OV2640 Headphones or other speakers with a 3.5mm jack, or a JST speaker such as: Mono Enclosed Speaker - 2W 6 Ohm Grove speaker plus Optional - microSD Card 16GB or less for testing image capture, along with a connector to use the SD card with your computer if you don't have one built-in. NOTE - the Wio Terminal only supports SD cards up to 16GB, it does not support higher capacities. 24 hand-on lessons across 6 real-world projects Please visit GitHub Repository and have the full view of the course. Every lesson contributes to one of 6 real-world projects. Each project is based on real-world hardware available to students and hobbyists. Each project looks into the specific project domain, providing relevant background knowledge in addition to getting hands-on developing the solution. This allows students to think about their IoT solutions and learnings in the context of the kind of real-world problem that they might be asked to solve as an IoT developer. Students learn the 'why' of the solutions they are building and get an appreciation of the end-user. (Using a light sensor to control an LED) (Location tracking with Wio Terminal) Start Learning Today There are 24 Lessons in this curriculum based on this IoT beginner kit: Project Name Concepts Taught Learning Objectives Linked Lesson 01 Getting started Introduction to IoT Learn the basic principles of IoT and the basic building blocks of IoT solutions such as sensors and cloud services whilst you are setting up your first IoT device Introduction to IoT 02 Getting started A deeper dive into IoT Learn more about the components of an IoT system, as well as microcontrollers and single-board computers A deeper dive into IoT 03 Getting started Interact with the physical world with sensors and actuators Learn about sensors to gather data from the physical world, and actuators to send feedback, whilst you build a nightlight Interact with the physical world with sensors and actuators 04 Getting started Connect your device to the Internet Learn about how to connect an IoT device to the Internet to send and receive messages by connecting your nightlight to an MQTT broker Connect your device to the Internet 05 Farm Predict plant growth Learn how to predict plant growth using temperature data captured by an IoT device Predict plant growth 06 Farm Detect soil moisture Learn how to detect soil moisture and calibrate a soil moisture sensor Detect soil moisture 07 Farm Automated plant watering Learn how to automate and time watering using a relay and MQTT Automated plant watering 08 Farm Migrate your plant to the cloud Learn about the cloud and cloud-hosted IoT services and how to connect your plant to one of these instead of a public MQTT broker Migrate your plant to the cloud 09 Farm Migrate your application logic to the cloud Learn about how you can write application logic in the cloud that responds to IoT messages Migrate your application logic to the cloud 10 Farm Keep your plant secure Learn about security with IoT and how to keep your plant secure with keys and certificates Keep your plant secure 11 Transport Location tracking Learn about GPS location tracking for IoT devices Location tracking 12 Transport Store location data Learn how to store IoT data to be visualized or analysed later Store location data 13 Transport Visualize location data Learn about visualizing location data on a map, and how maps represent the real 3d world in 2 dimensions Visualize location data 14 Transport Geofences Learn about geofences, and how they can be used to alert when vehicles in the supply chain are close to their destination Geofences 15 Manufacturing Train a fruit quality detector Learn about training an image classifier in the cloud to detect fruit quality Train a fruit quality detector 16 Manufacturing Check fruit quality from an IoT device Learn about using your fruit quality detector from an IoT device Check fruit quality from an IoT device 17 Manufacturing Run your fruit detector on the edge Learn about running your fruit detector on an IoT device on the edge Run your fruit detector on the edge 18 Manufacturing Trigger fruit quality detection from a sensor Learn about triggering fruit quality detection from a sensor Trigger fruit quality detection from a sensor 19 Retail Train a stock detector Learn how to use object detection to train a stock detector to count stock in a shop Train a stock detector 20 Retail Check stock from an IoT device Learn how to check stock from an IoT device using an object detection model Check stock from an IoT device 21 Consumer Recognize speech with an IoT device Learn how to recognize speech from an IoT device to build a smart timer Recognize speech with an IoT device 22 Consumer Understand language Learn how to understand sentences spoken to an IoT device Understand language 23 Consumer Set a timer and provide spoken feedback Learn how to set a timer on an IoT device and give spoken feedback on when the timer is set and when it finishes Set a timer and provide spoken feedback 24 Consumer Support multiple languages Learn how to support multiple languages, both being spoken to and the responses from your smart timer Support multiple languages Each lesson includes: optional sketchnote optional supplemental video pre-lesson warmup quiz written lesson for project-based lessons, step-by-step guides on how to build the project knowledge checks a challenge supplemental reading assignment post-lesson quiz Teaching and Learning Tips For Teachers, we have included some suggestions on how to use this curriculum. If you would like to create your own lessons, we have also included a lesson template. For Students, to use this curriculum on their own, fork the entire repo and complete the exercises on your own, starting with a pre-lecture quiz, then reading the lecture and completing the rest of the activities. Please create the projects by comprehending the lessons rather than copying the solution code; however, that code is available in the /solutions folders in each project-oriented lesson. We also suggest you form a study group with friends and go through the content together. For further study, we recommend Microsoft Learn.