Making Things Smart: easy embedded JavaScript programming for making everyday objects into intelligent machines

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