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

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