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A free, open-source 12-week curriculum of 24 lessons on IoT basics from Microsoft's Azure Cloud Advocates, taught through hands-on projects.
A free, open-source 12-week curriculum of 24 lessons on IoT basics from Microsoft's Azure Cloud Advocates, taught through hands-on projects.Is it an app I install, or a course I read?It's a course that lives in a GitHub repo — there's nothing to install. Lessons pair written material with pre- and post-lesson quizzes, a challenge, an assignment and, for project lessons, step-by-step build guides with a solution.
It's a course that lives in a GitHub repo — there's nothing to install. Lessons pair written material with pre- and post-lesson quizzes, a challenge, an assignment and, for project lessons, step-by-step build guides with a solution.I've cloned it — then what?Go lesson by lesson: take the pre-lecture quiz, read the lecture, then do the activities and assignment. Solution code sits in each project lesson's /solutions folder, and teaming up in a study group is suggested.
Go lesson by lesson: take the pre-lecture quiz, read the lecture, then do the activities and assignment. Solution code sits in each project lesson's /solutions folder, and teaming up in a study group is suggested.Do I need to buy hardware to follow along?Not necessarily. Two hardware options fit different preferences and budgets, and a virtual hardware version exists if you have no device yet — the hardware page links a shopping list and full kits from Seeed Studio.
Not necessarily. Two hardware options fit different preferences and budgets, and a virtual hardware version exists if you have no device yet — the hardware page links a shopping list and full kits from Seeed Studio.How heavy is the repo to clone?It's a big one: 50+ language translations (Arabic to Vietnamese) ship inside the repo, kept current via a GitHub Action. A documented sparse-checkout command skips the translations for a much faster clone.
It's a big one: 50+ language translations (Arabic to Vietnamese) ship inside the repo, kept current via a GitHub Action. A documented sparse-checkout command skips the translations for a much faster clone.Will this work for me if I've never touched hardware before?Yes — it's built for beginners: the course starts with IoT fundamentals before any hardware, and projects ramp up gradually, beginning with something as simple as a nightlight.
Yes — it's built for beginners: the course starts with IoT fundamentals before any hardware, and projects ramp up gradually, beginning with something as simple as a nightlight.What will I actually build over the 12 weeks?Four headline projects themed on food's journey from farm to table: a plant monitoring and watering system, a vehicle tracker, a smart factory setup that tracks and checks food, and a voice-controlled cooking timer.
Four headline projects themed on food's journey from farm to table: a plant monitoring and watering system, a vehicle tracker, a smart factory setup that tracks and checks food, and a voice-controlled cooking timer.How is the curriculum organized?24 lessons across 12 weeks, grouped by supply-chain stage: IoT fundamentals first, then Farm (soil moisture, automated watering, moving to the cloud), Transport (GPS tracking, geofences) and Manufacturing (a fruit-quality image classifier, including on the edge).
24 lessons across 12 weeks, grouped by supply-chain stage: IoT fundamentals first, then Farm (soil moisture, automated watering, moving to the cloud), Transport (GPS tracking, geofences) and Manufacturing (a fruit-quality image classifier, including on the edge).The lessons mention quizzes a lot — how do those work?All 48 quizzes, three questions each, sit in the quiz-app folder and are linked from the lessons; the app runs locally or can be deployed to Azure, and localizations for it are being added gradually.
All 48 quizzes, three questions each, sit in the quiz-app folder and are linked from the lessons; the app runs locally or can be deployed to Azure, and localizations for it are being added gradually.Can I reuse this for teaching my own class?Yes — the repo includes suggestions for teachers on using the curriculum, plus a lesson template if you want to write your own lessons.
Yes — the repo includes suggestions for teachers on using the curriculum, plus a lesson template if you want to write your own lessons.What are similar projects?Data-Science-For-Beginners, ML-For-Beginners, ai-agents-for-beginners, Embedded-Engineering-Roadmap, Web-Dev-For-Beginners, RustTraining, Complete-Python-3-Bootcamp, awesome-raspberry-pi
Data-Science-For-Beginners, ML-For-Beginners, ai-agents-for-beginners, Embedded-Engineering-Roadmap, Web-Dev-For-Beginners, RustTraining, Complete-Python-3-Bootcamp, awesome-raspberry-piWhich topics is it in?microsoft-for-beginners, sensors, microcontroller, microsoft, iot, curriculum, raspberry-pi, embedded, course, jupyter notebook, hardware, multilingual
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