Making Things Smart
Easy Embedded JavaScript Programming for Making Everyday Objects into Intelligent Machines
1st Edition
Published on 6. July 2017
352 pages
978-1-68045-187-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.Current ARM programming books take a bland, textbook approach focused on complex, beginner-unfriendly languages like C or ARM Assembler. Making Things Smart uses Espruino (JavaScript for Hardware), flattening the learning curve.
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Gordon F. Williams
Making Things Smart
Easy Embedded JavaScript Programming for Making Everyday Objects Into Intelligent Machines
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08/2017
Make Community, LLC
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Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- O'Reilly Safari
- How to Contact Us
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Why Make Things Smart?
- Learning through Making
- Making in JavaScript
- Tools and Materials
- Part I. Microcontrollers
- Chapter 2. What Is a Microcontroller?
- ARM History
- Programming a Microcontroller
- Chapter 3. Getting Started with Espruino
- Getting Ready
- Mac and Chromebook
- Windows
- Linux (Including Raspberry Pi)
- Plugging In
- Installing Software
- Connecting
- Updating Firmware
- First Commands
- The Editor
- Chapter 4. Getting Started with JavaScript
- Getting Ready
- Comments
- Data Types
- Undefined
- Numbers
- Strings
- Booleans
- Math
- Math with Numbers
- Math with Strings
- Math with Strings and Numbers
- The Helpful Language
- Variables
- Increment and Decrement
- Objects
- Functions
- parseInt
- Functions in Objects (Methods)
- console.log
- Defining Functions
- Inline Functions
- Arrays
- Object Orientation
- Bitwise Arithmetic
- Bitwise Operators
- Bit Shifting
- If Statements
- && and ||
- Ternary Operators
- for Loops
- Exceptions
- Part II. Motors
- Chapter 5. What Is an Electric Motor?
- Experiment 1: Faraday's Motor
- Experiment 2: Motor with Commutator
- Brushless DC Motors
- Experiment 3: Stepper Motor
- Experiment 4: Stepper Motor Control
- Experiment 5: More Stepper Motor Control
- Chapter 6. Stroboscope Tachometer
- Finding a Fan
- Experiment 6: Detecting Speed
- Experiment 7: Stroboscope
- Experiment 8: Brighter Stroboscope
- Chapter 7. John Logie Baird's TV
- Experiment 9: Persistence of Vision
- Experiment 10: John Logie Baird's TV
- Part III. Electromechanics
- Chapter 8. Make a Simple Robot
- Experiment 11: Try Out a Servo Motor
- Experiment 12: Make a Simple Robot
- Experiment 13: Following Light
- Chapter 9. Pen Plotter
- Experiment 14: Pen Plotter
- Software
- Chapter 10. Digital Pinhole Camera
- Experiment 15: Making a Digital Camera
- Complete Listing
- Chapter 11. Printer
- Experiment 16: Making a Printer
- Software
- Complete Listing
- Part IV. Communication
- Chapter 12. Wired Communication
- Clocking
- Experiment 17: Making an Oscilloscope
- Using the Oscilloscope
- Chapter 13. 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
- Chapter 14. 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
- Chapter 15. Connecting with WiFi
- Experiment 27: Adding WiFi to Your Pico
- Making This Tidier
- 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
- Controlling Things
- Chapter 16. Bluetooth Low Energy
- So, How Does Bluetooth Low Energy Work?
- How Can We Use Bluetooth LE Ourselves?
- Web Bluetooth
- Experiment 33: Using Puck.js
- Experiment 34: Making a Door Opening Counter
- Experiment 35: Advertising Door Openings
- Experiment 36: Receiving Door Openings with Eddystone
- Part V. Putting It All Together
- Chapter 17. XY Plotter
- Experiment 37: Making an XY Table
- Experiment 38: Controlling the XY Table
- Chapter 18. Internet-Connected Plotter
- Experiment 39: Internet-Connected Plotter
- Part VI. Conclusion
- Chapter 19. So What Now?
- Appendix A. Parts and Materials
- Common Parts
- General
- Espruino Boards
- Breadboard
- Patch Wires/Jumper Leads
- Resistors, Capacitors, LEDs, Light-Dependent Resistors
- Neodynium Magnets
- Single Core Wire
- Wood
- Motors Section
- General
- A Source of DC Power (Around 6-12v)
- L293D Motor Driver IC
- Brushless Fan
- P36NF06L FET
- Electromechanics Section
- General
- Servo Motors and Extension Wire
- Lobster Bands
- A Small Corkboard (Roughly 30cm×40cm)
- Threaded Rod and Nut
- Communication Section
- A Headphone Lead with a 3.5mm Jack Plug
- IR Receiver (HX1838, VS1838, TSOP348, or TSOP344) and Remote Control
- A 315Mhz (USA) or 433Mhz (Europe) Radio Transmitter/Receiver
- ESP8266 ESP01
- Putting It All Together
- 2x Springs
- Smooth Aluminum Bar and 30mm×30mm×30mm Cube of Solid Wood or Plastic
- 10×40mm Diameter Pulleys
- 5M of Fishing Line
- Two Small Geared Stepper Motors
- Appendix B. Common Espruino Commands and Variables
- print(text) or console.log(text)
- LED1 and LED2
- BTN1 or BTN
- digitalWrite(pin[s], value)
- digitalRead(pin[s])
- Pin.read(), Pin.write(value), Pin.set(), and Pin.reset()
- analogWrite(pin, value[, options])
- analogRead(pin)
- digitalPulse(pin, polarity, time[s])
- pinMode(pin, mode)
- reset()
- save()
- load()
- onInit()
- Appendix C. Espruino Assembler
- So How Do We Run This Code?
- Registers
- Instructions
- Getting More Complex
- Index
- About the Author
