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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Internet of Things: Sensing and Actuation From Devices by University of California San Diego

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    About the Course

    Have you wondered how information from physical devices in the real world gets communicated to Smartphone processors? Do you want to
    make informed design decisions about sampling frequencies and bit-width requirements for various kinds of sensors? Do you want to gain
    expertise to affect the real world with actuators such as stepper motors, LEDs and generate notifications? In this course, you will learn to
    interface common sensors and actuators to the DragonBoard™ 410c hardware. You will then develop software to acquire sensory data,
    process the data and actuate stepper motors, LEDs, etc. for use in mobile-enabled products. Along the way, you’ll learn to ap...
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    Jun 18, 2022

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    Extremely well organized and detailed course.Well explained with proper materials to gain,revise and record the knowledge received while going through the course.

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    May 29, 2020

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    Wonderful course of Coursera and faculty members having clear cut through knowledge. Thank you very much

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    Apr 9, 2016

    Headed downhill. Lessons are starting to feel like not enough time was put into preperation... or like this course was assigned as a project to some students so the professor could make a dollar (like textbooks). One of the instructors even said at one point they didn't have enough time. What does that even mean in an online course. You could be fixing it right now and improving the course. This whole thing is being handled like a college course and that is crazy. On-line courses can undergo continual improvement. The college course paradigm is dying because we can do it better now. Fail.

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    Jan 6, 2024

    Thanks for the course insight, such as: 1. Estimate sampling frequency and bit-width required for different sensors. 2. Program GPIOs. 3. Write data acquisition code for sensors such as passive and active infrared (IR) sensors, microphones, cameras, GPS, accelerometers, ultrasonic sensors, etc. 4. Write applications that process sensor data and take specific actions, such as stepper motors, LED matrices for digital signage and gaming, etc.

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    Jun 19, 2022

    Extremely well organized and detailed course.Well explained with proper materials to gain,revise and record the knowledge received while going through the course.

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    May 30, 2020

    Wonderful course of Coursera and faculty members having clear cut through knowledge. Thank you very much

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    Mar 17, 2021

    to be honest, it is interesting to have such experience from this platform, and I really appreciate

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    Jan 26, 2017

    The students who taught this course did an amazing job of putting together the lectures and code.

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    Jun 23, 2020

    Very nice course got very good experience about it everything was explained in detail thank you

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    May 16, 2021

    An exceptional Course on IOT , covering a vast array of important topics. Thank you Coursera!

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    Feb 8, 2018

    Excellent, I recommend this course and specialization.

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    By Hari K K

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    Aug 28, 2017

    A very good foundation course on sensing and actuation

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    By Marvin S

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    Jul 29, 2016

    it makes a lot of fun to develop little iot showcases

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    By Shivanand R K

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    Jun 21, 2016

    Great and Excellent thoughts and course material.

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    By SaiKrishna S Y

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    Jun 5, 2016

    Great for beginners and Undergrad students

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    By Syed R T

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    Jul 13, 2017

    Strategically Designed...

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    Dec 30, 2019

    thank u courseera

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    By SRINIVASULU P

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    Jun 23, 2020

    Excellent Course

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    Jul 5, 2020

    Good Course

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    Jun 15, 2021

    NICE

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    Apr 5, 2021

    good

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    Jul 24, 2020

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    Jun 20, 2020

    Good

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    By Erwin V

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    May 31, 2017

    Really interesting section of the specialization, where you learn how to connect your device to the outside world. Plenty of ways and interesting examples. The coding part sometimes is difficult to follow, but as code is available and documented, you can still grasp how it works.

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    By Mika M

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    Apr 12, 2016

    Good hands on course. The self built amplifier circuit feels like a hack but works around the voltage level issues adequately without the mezzanine board which was not available at the time the course was prepared.

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    By Arnab P

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    Oct 19, 2016

    Its an awesome course and really teaches some cool stuff!

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    By Jean-Luc B

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    Jan 4, 2016

    Thank you for this course. I enjoyed it and learnt a lot.

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