Making Things Talk: Using Sensors, Networks, and Arduino to See, Hear, and Feel Your World

by Tom Igoe

The workbenches of hobbyists, hackers, and makers have become overrun with microcontrollers , computers-on-a-chip that power homebrewed video games, robots, toys, and more. In Making Things Talk , Tom Igoe, one of the creators of Arduino, shows how to make these gadgets talk. Whether you need to connect some sensors to the Internet or create a device that can interact wirelessly with other creations, this book shows you what you need. Although they are powerful, the projects in this book are inexpensive to the Arduino microcontroller board itself ranges from around $25 to $40. The networking hardware covered here includes Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and can be had for $25 to $50. Fully updated for the latest Arduino hardware and software, this book lets you combine microcontrollers, sensors, and networking hardware to make things... and make them talk to each other!

496 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Brian Salehi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Text seems amusing but the whole book is not that practical.
If you're an absolute beginner and you get bored by reading books easily, this book is for you.