Hack-a-Gecko Project: Putting the Internet of Things on your home network

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The task at hand was two-pronged – connecting an embedded system to an existing TCP/IP network, and developing a lightweight, simple web interface that can both send commands to the MCU (server) and send the status to the browser (client). Project Member: Christopher Project Description: Software – First, a lightweight socket library was used. Low-level HTTP request parser and response formatter is written to handle HTTP GET and POST methods. GET allows return of a web resource (index.htm) and POST lets one submit data to the server (i.e. send form data to the server). Web resources…

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