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