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🎯 What you’ll learn
- Everyday things that talk online
- Sense → send → act
- IoT examples near you
🎬 Animated demo
Watch a smart plug send its status to a phone across the city.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- List IoT devices at home and school
- Draw your dream smart device
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Networks of networks
- Packets, addresses and routers
- Servers and the cloud
🎬 Animated demo
Follow a data packet hopping through routers to a server.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Trace a website’s journey
- Paper packet-passing game
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Boards with WiFi
- Connecting sensors and outputs
- Power for always-on devices
🎬 Animated demo
A sensor, a board and a WiFi radio join to form an IoT “thing”.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Temperature node
- Door status node
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Joining a network from code
- Staying connected
- What to do when WiFi drops
🎬 Animated demo
See a board search, connect and get its address.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- WiFi status light
- Auto-reconnect test
🎯 What you’ll learn
- What “the cloud” means
- Sending readings every few seconds
- Storing data safely
🎬 Animated demo
Readings float up from the board into a cloud database.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Cloud temperature logger
- Plant moisture uploader
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Showing live values
- Graphs over time
- Designing clear dashboards
🎬 Animated demo
Change a day of readings on a dashboard graph, then design your own live dashboard card.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Room comfort dashboard
- Classroom noise graph
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Sending commands to devices
- Phone apps as remotes
- Two-way communication
🎬 Animated demo
Tap a button on a phone and a far-away light switches on.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Remote light switch
- Remote pet feeder model
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Rules that trigger alerts
- Alerts on phone and email
- Avoiding too many alerts
🎬 Animated demo
Temperature crosses a limit and a phone alert pops up.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Fridge-door-open alert
- Water tank full alert
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Smart homes
- Smart parking and street lights
- Air-quality networks
🎬 Animated demo
A smart city lights up stop by stop — street lights, parking, bins and air sensors.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Smart home model
- Street-light automation model
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Smart irrigation
- Machine monitoring
- Saving water and energy
🎬 Animated demo
A farm’s sensors report dry soil and the pump switches on.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Smart irrigation plan
- Machine-running hour counter
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Passwords and updates
- Why hackers target devices
- Privacy of your data
🎬 Animated demo
A locked door keeps unwanted users out of a device.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- IoT safety checklist
- Password strength tester
🎯 What you’ll learn
- Plan, build and test
- Dashboard + control + alerts
- Present your IoT solution
🎬 Animated demo
See every part of an IoT system working together.
🛠️ Project & application ideas
- Smart plant monitor
- Home security IoT system (final project)