Electronica

CYAN
MAGENTA

YELLOW
BLACK
PANTONE 123 C

Practical Arduino Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware

Arduino

his book was written to demonstrate a variety of Arduino techniques in a practical
context, giving you an opportunity to learn how the theory and reference material
already available online applies to real-world projects.
If you’ve come as far as picking up a whole bookabout Arduino, you’re ready for
something more substantial than assembly instructions. You don’t want a simple series
of steps to follow: you want to understand not just how to assemble something, but why
it was designed that way in the first place. That’s what this book will give you: you won’t
just be a color-by-numbers painter; you’ll learn to be a true hardware craftsman and artist,
able toconceptualize, design, and assemble your own creations.
We want you to take these projects as inspiration and examples of applying a variety
of handy techniques and then adapt them to suit your own requirements, coming up
with inspiration and new ideas that put ours to shame. And we hope that you’ll then
share your creations with us and with the world, inspiring others in turn. By followingthrough the projects in this book, you will gain a number of insights into the flexibility of
Arduino as a platform for taking software and hardware and linking them to the physical
world around us.

Practical

T

TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION™

Also available:

53999

US $39.99
Shelve in Hardware
User level: Beginning–Advanced

SOURCE CODE ONLINE
9 781430 224778

www.apress.comthis print for content only—size & color not accurate

Arduino

Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware
LEARN IN-DEPTH ARDUINO
TECHNIQUES USING
REAL-WORLD PROJECTS

Oxer
Blemings

ISBN 978-1-4302-2477-8

Practical

Jonathan Oxer
Hugh Blemings

trim size = 7.5" x 9.25" spine = 0.859" 448 page count

Practical Arduino
Cool Projects for
Open Source Hardware

Jonathan OxerHugh Blemings

Practical Arduino: Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware
Copyright © 2009 by Jonathan Oxer and Hugh Blemings
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or
retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyrightowner and the publisher.
ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4302-2477-8
ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4302-2478-5
Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every
occurrence of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of
the trademark owner, with nointention of infringement of the trademark.
Cover picture of Arduino Duemilanove used with permission of SparkFun Electronics.
President and Publisher: Paul Manning
Lead Editor: Michelle Lowman
Technical Reviewers: Nathan Seidle, Andy Gelme, Thomas Sprinkmeier, Trent Lloyd, Scott
Penrose, Marc Alexander, Philip Lindsay
Editorial Board: Clay Andres, Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner, Ewan Buckingham,Gary Cornell,
Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Hassell, Michelle Lowman, Matthew Moodie, Duncan Parkes,
Jeffrey Pepper, Frank Pohlmann, Douglas Pundick, Ben Renow-Clarke, Dominic Shakeshaft,
Matt Wade, Tom Welsh
Coordinating Editor: Jim Markham
Copy Editor: Vanessa Moore
Compositor: Bytheway Publishing Services
Indexer: Julie Grady
Artist: April Milne
Cover Designer: Kurt Krames
Distributed tothe book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 233 Spring Street, 6th
Floor, New York, NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER, fax 201-348-4505, e-mail orders-ny@springersbm.com, or visit http://www.springeronline.com.
For information on translations, please contact Apress directly at 2855 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 600,
Berkeley, CA 94705. Phone 510-549-5930, fax 510-549-5939, e-mail...