The mental model and minimum vocabulary for every later course in the track — what IoT actually is, what a microcontroller really does, and how connected products are architected from first principles.
Most IoT learning skips the part that matters most: the precise vocabulary that lets you reason about a product before you write any code. This course fixes that. You'll learn the three-tier architecture (device, gateway, cloud) in detail, the difference between sensors and actuators and why it matters for everything downstream, the four families of microcontrollers and how to pick between them, the four canonical failure modes of IoT at scale (power, signal, scaling, security), and the underrated skill of reading a datasheet. By the end you'll be able to sketch an end-to-end IoT product on a single page — and defend every choice on it.
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I'm learning the fundamentals of IoT — what a microcontroller is and how it differs from a normal computer, how sensors and actuators connect to it, how data moves from a device to the cloud, and how to architect a connected product end-to-end. Help me build the mental model before any code; explain the trade-offs, not just the happy path. I've never built an IoT product before but I can program in [language] and I have access to [hardware, if any].
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Sign in to applyComplete all modules, then submit the required number of capstone projects. Each must earn a passing rating from an admin reviewer.
Build the canonical first IoT product end-to-end: an ESP32 board reading soil moisture and ambient temperature + humidity, publishing readings to an MQTT broker over Wi-Fi, with a small dashboard that visualises the data and alerts you when the plant gets dry. The point isn't the plant — it's that you've now done device firmware, wireless transport, broker setup, persistence, and a user-facing UI, in one project, end to end.
If you've never touched hardware, this is the right starting point.