| Practical Arduino: Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware (Technology in Action) |  | Authors: Jonathan Oxer, Hugh Blemings
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Pages: 450
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1
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ISBN: 1430224770
Dewey Decimal Number: 621
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Publication Date: December 28, 2009
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Create your own Arduino-based designs, gain in-depth knowledge of the architecture of Arduino, and learn the user-friendly Arduino language all in the context of practical projects that you can build yourself at home. Get hands-on experience using a variety of projects and recipes for everything from home automation to test equipment. Arduino has taken off as an incredibly popular building block among ubicomp (ubiquitous computing) enthusiasts, robotics hobbyists, and DIY home automation developers. Authors Jonathan Oxer and Hugh Blemings provide detailed instructions for building a wide range of both practical and fun Arduino-related projects, covering areas such as hobbies, automotive, communications, home automation, and instrumentation. - Take Arduino beyond "blink" to a wide variety of projects from simple to challenging
- Hands-on recipes for everything from home automation to interfacing with your car engine management system
- Explanations of techniques and references to handy resources for ubiquitous computing projects
Supplementary material includes a circuit schematic reference, introductions to a range of electronic engineering principles and general hints & tips. These combine with the projects themselves to make Practical Arduino: Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware an invaluable reference for Arduino users of all levels. You'll learn a wide variety of techniques that can be applied to your own projects. What you'll learn- Communication with serial devices including RFID readers, temperature sensors, and GPS modules
- Connecting Arduino to Ethernet and WiFi networks
- Adding synthesized speech to Arduino
- Linking Arduino to web services
- Decoding data streams from commercial wireless devices
- How to make DIY prototyping shields for only a couple of dollars
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Deep 'duino September 2, 2010
Butch (Oak Ridge, TN)
This is a good project book. The projects are fairly complex and probably not suitable for beginners.
Fortunately, the book is not "bulked up" with code listings and the diagrams are good.
Unfortunately, the photos are foggy as noted in the other reviews.
I am looking forward to the sequel.
 Very Disappointing August 7, 2010
D. R. Crawford (Charlevoix, MI)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The first thing you notice when you open this book is that it seems to've been printed on recycled Charmin. After that, you'll notice right away how much trouble the authors and publishers took on the photos, i.e. just about none whatsoever. Instead of color photos, we are treated to the exciting world of monochrome. Ah, but not just any monochrome. No sir! The authors evidently went to all the trouble of finding one of Matthew Brady's original cameras, last used to photograph Civil War battlefields. They do provide lots of dim, dark, nearly zero-contrast photos, many of which are almost adequate. The publishers then took these lovely photos and reproduced them with what appears to've been a 1970's copier, still using the original toner cartridge I think. To economize on all that expensive recycled Charmin, the authors have painstakingly avoided any white space and have given us pages that have all the readability of medieval German.
THIS IS NOT A BOOK FOR BEGINNERS. The title should have used the word "Advanced" instead of "Practical". There are no easy introductory projects in this book, not one. Also, they seem to be horrified by the idea of easy-to-use breadboards and instead invite us to spend endless hours with a soldering iron, hoping that we can interpret those murky photos and not make any mistakes. As to the quality of the information so densely provided, it may be that once you have struggled through it all, you will have gotten really useful data from this book. I think you'll need to be a real Arduino expert though and extremely patient to boot. To me, the whole thing is spoiled by being so poorly presented. However, if you're one of those people who think form and style count for nothing, I'm sure you will truly appreciate this book. Good luck.
 Good book for beginners looking for a challenge August 4, 2010
Kyle Hardman
I agree completely with the top rated reviews that say that this book covers a lot of detail on Arduino. Even though I am not interested in building most of the projects in the book, there are still numerous resources to be found in those chapters. For example, I was just reading the chapter on building an oscilloscope using Arduino to pass data to a computer for display. In this section, there is a detailed explanation of how Arduino does analog and digital reads, the amount of time these reads take, and how to "overclock" the analog read process for greater resolution in reads. This kind of information goes way beyond the basic "connect the green wire to the third connector" and gives you an understanding that transfers to other projects.
For those complaining that the book isn't for beginners, I would disagree for the reason that almost all of the code is well explained. The parts that are not well explained are generally related to extremely low-level hardware interfacing, an example being the code to overclock the analog reads. Even this is explained in enough detail to be able to use it in any project, but not adapt the low-level commands to other functions. I understand fully why this choice was made, given the limitations of the book. Even if there is a section of code that cannot be understood from the instructions, you can just copy-paste it into a project and it will likely work.
Hardware for software guys July 13, 2010
AJ Fisher (Melbourne, Australia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're a software hacker and have always had a bit of trepidation about building anything serious electronically but aren't too bad with a soldering iron then this will get you going.
The Arduino circuit board is designed to take some of the rawness out of building electronic circuits and has a lot of base functionality and a bucket-load of code libraries to support it. This book isn't a step-by-step how to guide as it talks about things in principle with examples to illustrate so it should get your brain ticking then provide you with some reference before building.
I need to dig out my soldering iron...
Intermidiate to Advanced users. July 6, 2010
Craig Berrey (LeRoy, Michigan United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great Book. Looking forward to building and modifying some of the projects. This book could be read and used by a novice but having some experience with the Arduino and some smaller projects would be of benefit. Book was clear, only got bogged down in a couple of spots, just reread the section and got it figured out. Not a big problem. This title is packed with lots of information, offers variations to the basic projects and cause one to think about how it could be altered to meet your own needs. The programming gets a little heavy later in the book, that is where it would help to have at least a bit of experience with the device and basic programming. Highly recommend this book for anyone pursuing a more in depth knowledge of the Arduino.
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