Getting Started with Sensors

by Kimmo Karvinen, Tero Karvinen

To build electronic projects that can sense the physical world, you need to build circuits based around sensors: electronic components that react to physical phenomena by sending an electrical signal. Even with only basic electronic components, you can build useful and educational sensor projects.

But if you incorporate Arduino or Raspberry Pi into your project, you can build much more sophisticated projects that can react in interesting ways and even connect to the Internet. This book starts by teaching you the basic electronic circuits to read and react to a sensor. It then goes on to show how to use Arduino to develop sensor systems, and wraps up by teaching you how to build sensor projects with the Linux-powered Raspberry Pi.

Genres: Technology, Technical, Nonfiction

138 pages, Paperback

First published October 22, 2013

Reviews

[Jaz Grdn · Rating 4 out of 5]

The kindle version may have some formatting differences. The code explanations seem to run into each other. It may also be a device issue.

Otherwise, grateful for picking this up and finishing it. Definitely added to my learning progress.

[Tim Murray · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think I should be very clear that this book is for beginners. I am a beginner. I loved it.

I've worked through all of the examples and they are explained clearly with a nice smooth difficulty progression as it goes along and really easy to understand drawings. The functions of the code are spelled out for you in detail.Best of all, it really sparked some ideas of how I can use sensors to perform unusual functions like using an ultrasonic sensor to change the volume of music.