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I'm kind of a newbie, but I'm trying to connect my emails to an LED strip perhaps or a light bulb for my final year project, how would I go about doing this by using an Arduino board?

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I would split this project in three major parts:

  1. Email monitoring

    First, you need to know when a new email message arrives in your inbox. For this task you might find this post useful.

  2. Serial communication between Python and Arduino

    Once you know how to identify new email messages, you can send a message to your Arduino board by using serial communication. This message could be a simple string BLINK. You can use the pySerial library for sending messages to the Arduino board. In order to read the message in Arduino, take a look at this official documentation. Whenever you receive a string BLINK you can trigger a code to blink the lights.

  3. Controlling LED lights

    If you are a newcomer I recommend you start small. First, try finishing this project by blinking a single LED. As long as you have mastered that, you can follow this tutorial to control a LED stripe.

    Good luck!

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