Description

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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?
   1. Experiment 1: Faraday's Motor
   1. Experiment 2: Motor with Commutator
   1. Experiment 3: Stepper Motor
   1. Experiment 4: Stepper Motor Control
   1. Experiment 5: More Stepper Motor Control

1. Stroboscope Tachometer
   1. Experiment 6: Detecting Speed
   1. Experiment 7: Stroboscope
   1. Experiment 8: Brighter Stroboscope

1. John Logie Baird's TV
   1. Experiment 9: Persistence of Vision
   1. Experiment 10: John Logie Baird's TV

1. Make a Simple Robot
   1. Experiment 11: Try Out a Servo Motor
   1. Experiment 12: Make a Simple Robot
   1. Experiment 13: Following Light

1. Pen Plotter
   1. Experiment 14: Pen Plotter

1. Digital Pinhole Camera
   1. Experiment 15: Making a Digital Camera

1. Printer

1. Experiment 16: Making a Printer

1. Wired Communication
   1. Experiment 17: Making an Oscilloscope

1. Cutting the Cord: Infrared
   1. Experiment 18: Making the IR Receiver
   1. Experiment 19: Decoding IR Signals
   1. Experiment 20: Using Our Decoded Signal
   1. Experiment 21: Using Our Remote Control on the Net, with dweet.io
   1. Experiment 22: Using Our Remote Control on the Net, with IFTTT

1. Cutting the Cord: Radio Signals
   1. Experiment 23: Wiring Up the Receiver
   1. Experiment 24: Wiring Up a Transmitter
   1. Experiment 25: Transmitting from Espruino
   1. Experiment 26: Decoding the Received Data

1. Connecting with WiFi
   1. Experiment 27: Adding WiFi to Your Pico
   1. Experiment 28: Testing Your Wiring
   1. Experiment 29: Connecting to WiFi
   1. Experiment 30: Sending Data to the Internet
   1. Experiment 31: Getting Data from the Internet
   1. Experiment 32: Creating a Server

1. Bluetooth Low Energy
   1. Experiment 33: Using Puck.js
   1. Experiment 34: Making a Door Opening Counter
   1. Experiment 35: Advertising Door Openings
   1. Experiment 36: Receiving Door Openings with Eddystone

1. XY Plotter
   1. Experiment 37: Making an XY Table
   1. Experiment 38: Controlling the XY Table

1. Internet-Connected Plotter
   1. Experiment 39: Internet-Connected Plotter

About the Author

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