I just made my first steps with the uasyncio module in Micropython and I'm impressed. Here is a small example how to use coroutines for letting all 3 LEDs on the Pyboard v1.1 blink with different intervals. The resulting code is unexpectedly short but also readable.

import pyb
import uasyncio as asyncio


async def blink_led(led, interval_s):
    """Let the LED blink in the given interval."""
    while True:
        await asyncio.sleep(interval_s)
        led.toggle()


led_red = pyb.LED(1)  # red led on the pyboard
led_green = pyb.LED(2)  # green led on the pyboard
led_yellow = pyb.LED(3)  # yellow led on the pyboard


# get a new event loop
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()

# create new tasks for each led
loop.call_soon(blink_led(led_red, interval_s=0.5))
loop.call_soon(blink_led(led_green, interval_s=1))
loop.call_soon(blink_led(led_yellow, interval_s=2))

# run all tasks
loop.run_forever()

For a comprehensive tutorial on Micropython async have a look at https://github.com/peterhinch/micropython-async.

One of the first IoT use cases that comes in ones mind ist measuring the temperature of your environment. An easy and cost-efficient way is to use an 1-Wire bus sensor like the DS18S20. You can get this sensor for around 2,15€ and it is really easy to implement in your µC as there are a bunch of libraries for the 1-Wire protocol. So the first thing to do is put the sensor in a bread board and connect it to your WiPy2 breakout board. The pin assignment is simple. Connect Pin1 of the sensor to GND, Pin2 to G10 and Pin3 to 3.3V. That' s it.

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