Making Things Smart

"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 "