We present Practical IoT for Personal Development, a pragmatic IoT tutorial for the busy Kenyan professional. For maximal hands-on experience, its theme is heavily oriented towards Do-it-Yourself (DIY) IoT use cases for the Connected Home (CH), as well as the harness of Open Source (O/S) and commodity IoT devices/components. Included in the discussion are pertinent trends such as AI integration at the edge accompanied by complete templates for further prototype development.

A few of the DIY projects and CH solutions on the Raspberry Pi and the ESP8266 include: