Making Things Talk : Using Sensors, Networks, and Arduino to See, Hear, and Feel Your World

Building electronic projects that interact with the physical world is good fun. But when the devices you've built start to talk to each other, things really get interesting. With 31 easy-to-build projects, Making Things Talk shows you how to get your gadgets to communicate with you and your environment. It's perfect for people with little technical training but a lot of interest. Make microcontrollers, PCs, servers, and smartphones talk to each other. Maybe you're a science teacher who wants to show students how to monitor the weather in several locations at once. Or a sculptor looking to stage a room of choreographed mechanical sculptures. In this expanded edition, you'll learn how to form networks of smart devices that share data and respond to commands. You will: Call your home thermostat with a smartphone and change the temperature. Create your own video controller that communicates over a network. Use WiFi, Bluetooth, Infrared, and LoRa radio transmit sensor data wirelessly. Work with Arduino 1.8, Processing, node.js, and p5.js-four easy-to-use, open source environments. Write programs to send data across the Internet based on physical activity in your home, office, or backyard. Book jacket.