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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: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 TachometerExperiment 6: Detecting Speed
Experiment 7: Stroboscope
Experiment 8: Brighter Stroboscope
John Logie Baird's TVExperiment 9: Persistence of Vision
Experiment 10: John Logie Baird's TV
Make a Simple RobotExperiment 11: Try Out a Servo Motor
Experiment 12: Make a Simple Robot
Experiment 13: Following Light
Pen PlotterExperiment 14: Pen Plotter
Digital Pinhole CameraExperiment 15: Making a Digital Camera
Printer
Experiment 16: Making a Printer
Wired CommunicationExperiment 17: Making an Oscilloscope
Cutting the Cord: InfraredExperiment 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 SignalsExperiment 23: Wiring Up the Receiver
Experiment 24: Wiring Up a Transmitter
Experiment 25: Transmitting from Espruino
Experiment 26: Decoding the Received Data
Connecting with WiFiExperiment 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 EnergyExperiment 33: Using Puck.js
Experiment 34: Making a Door Opening Counter
Experiment 35: Advertising Door Openings
Experiment 36: Receiving Door Openings with Eddystone
XY PlotterExperiment 37: Making an XY Table
Experiment 38: Controlling the XY Table
Internet-Connected PlotterExperiment 39: Internet-Connected Plotter
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Summary
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.
