Making Things Smart: Easy Embedded JavaScript Programming for Making Everyday Objects into Intelligent Machines

by Gordon F. Williams

Overview

Making Things Smart teaches the fundamentals of the powerful ARM microcontroller by walking beginners and experienced users alike through easily assembled projects comprised of inexpensive, hardware-store parts.

Projects in this book include:

1. What Is an Electric Motor?
2. Experiment 1: Faraday’s Motor
3. Experiment 2: Motor with Commutator
4. Experiment 3: Stepper Motor
5. Experiment 4: Stepper Motor Control
6. Experiment 5: More Stepper Motor Control
7. Stroboscope Tachometer
8. Experiment 6: Detecting Speed
9. Experiment 7: Stroboscope
10. Experiment 8: Brighter Stroboscope
11. John Logie Baird’s TV
12. Experiment 9: Persistence of Vision
13. Experiment 10: John Logie Baird’s TV
14. Make a Simple Robot
15. Experiment 11: Try Out a Servo Motor
16. Experiment 12: Make a Simple Robot
17. Experiment 13: Following Light
18. Pen Plotter
19. Experiment 14: Pen Plotter
20. Digital Pinhole Camera
21. Experiment 15: Making a Digital Camera
22. Printer
23. Experiment 16: Making a Printer
24. Wired Communication
25. Experiment 17: Making an Oscilloscope
26. Cutting the Cord: Infrared
27. Experiment 18: Making the IR Receiver
28. Experiment 19: Decoding IR Signals
29. Experiment 20: Using Our Decoded Signal
30. Experiment 21: Using Our Remote Control on the Net, with dweet.io
31. Experiment 22: Using Our Remote Control on the Net, with IFTTT
32. Cutting the Cord: Radio Signals
33. Experiment 23: Wiring Up the Receiver
34. Experiment 24: Wiring Up a Transmitter
35. Experiment 25: Transmitting from Espruino
36. Experiment 26: Decoding the Received Data
37. Connecting with WiFi
38. Experiment 27: Adding WiFi to Your Pico
39. Experiment 28: Testing Your Wiring
40. Experiment 29: Connecting to WiFi
41. Experiment 30: Sending Data to the Internet
42. Experiment 31: Getting Data from the Internet
43. Experiment 32: Creating a Server
44. Bluetooth Low Energy
45. Experiment 33: Using Puck.js
46. Experiment 34: Making a Door Opening Counter
47. Experiment 35: Advertising Door Openings
48. Experiment 36: Receiving Door Openings with Eddystone
49. XY Plotter
50. Experiment 37: Making an XY Table
51. Experiment 38: Controlling the XY Table
52. Internet-Connected Plotter
53. Experiment 39: Internet-Connected Plotter

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680451894
Publisher:	Make Community, LLC
Publication date:	08/03/2017
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

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