Book description
"The Internet of Things" is the new buzzphrase, but what is it? A toaster that texts? The fitness band on your wrist? The camera in an infant's room? Sure, it's all of those things. But it's also your phone: an ultra-sophisticated sensor and communications system in your pocket or purse--capable of tracking your steps, capturing an image, or calling an Uber. And it is actually not hard or expensive to make a sensing, communicating object yourself. Doing so can be rewarding, fun, and even useful. This book teaches the basics of building sensors and communicating objects through a series of practical, demonstrative, and fun activities.
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Table of contents
- Welcome to the World of Smart Objects
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: You Only Have to Do This Once
- Chapter 2: Hello Blinky World
- Chapter 3: A Dark-Detecting Light
- Chapter 4: Night Light
- Chapter 5: Ice, Ice Blinky
- Chapter 6: A Gentle Touch
- Chapter 7: Someone Moved My Stuff!
- Chapter 8: Electric Candle
- Chapter 9: Invisible Ruler
- Chapter 10: Get Your Arduino Online
- Chapter 11: Do I Need an Umbrella Today?
- Chapter 12: Send Email with a Button
- Chapter 13: Online Temperature Tracker
- Afterword: Make More Projects
- Appendix A: Everything You Need
- Appendix B: All of the Code
- Index
Product information
- Title: Family Projects for Smart Objects
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2016
- Publisher(s): Make: Community
- ISBN: 9781680451238
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