Mar 052012
Programming Your Home: Automate with Arduino, Android, and Your Computer (Pragmatic Programmers)
Take control of your home! Automate home appliances and lighting, and learn about Arduinos and Android smartphones. Create applications that leverage ideas from this and other exciting new platforms.
In Programming Your Home, technology enthusiast Mike Riley walks you through a variety of custom home automation projects, ranging from a phone application that alerts you to package deliveries at your front door to an electronic guard dog that will prevent unwanted visitors.
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Good but need more.,
Have been looking at some automation projects around the house and I already use the arduino in a limited capacity. The book shares numerous projects to help get someone started in this direction. After looking at some of the projects I realized that I didn’t need so much computing power at the input side of the automation projects I had in mind. I basically needed an open or closed signal sent. I also started to make my wishlist longer and decided I would like to view those open or closed signals from my smart phone. The book does cover remotely viewing, with a computer, changes in the system and can be accessed online. I’ve decided to look at the xbee hardware a little more closely for my projects but it probably wouldn’t have come to mind if I hadn’t looked at this book first. Next book will be Building Wireless Sensor Networks: with ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing.
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