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

By Gordon H Williams

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680451898
• ISBN13: 9781680451894
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Make Community, LLC
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.2"