JavaScript on Things: Hacking hardware for web developers - Lyza Gardner;

Summary

jаvascript on Things is your first step into the exciting and downright entertaining world of programming for small electronics. If you know enough jаvascript to hack a website together, you'll be making things go bleep, blink, and spin faster than you can say "nodebot."

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Are you ready to make things move? If you can build a web app, you can create robots, weather stations, and other funky gadgets! In this incredibly fun, project-based guide, jаvascript hardware hacker Lyza Danger Gardner takes you on an incredible journey from your first flashing LED through atmospheric sensors, motorized rovers, Bluetooth doorbells, and more. With jаvascript, some easy-to-get hardware, and a bit of creativity, you'll be beeping, spinning, and glowing in no time.

About the Book

jаvascript on Things introduces the exciting world of programming small electronics! You'll start building things immediately, beginning with basic blinking on Arduino. This fully illustrated, hands-on book surveys jаvascript toolkits like Johnny-Five along with platforms including Raspberry Pi, Tessel, and BeagleBone. As you build project after interesting project, you'll learn to wire in sensors, hook up motors, transmit data, and handle user input. So be warned: once you start, you won't want to stop.

What's Inside

Controlling hardware with jаvascripti

Designing and assembling robots and gadgets

A crash course in electronics

Over a dozen hands-on projects!

About the Reader

Written for readers with intermediate jаvascript and Node.js skills. No experience with electronics required.

About the Author

Lyza Danger Gardner has been a web developer for over 20 years. She's part of the NodeBots community and a contributor to the Johnny-Five Node.js library.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - A jаvascriptER'S INTRODUCTION TO HARDWARE

Bringing jаvascript and hardware together

Embarking on hardware with Arduino

How to build circuits
PART 2 - PROJECT BASICS: INPUT AND OUTPUT WITH JOHNNY-FIVE

Sensors and input

Output: making things happen

Output: making things move
PART 3 - MORE SOPHISTICATED PROJECTS

Serial communication

Projects without wires

Building your own thing
PART 4 - USING jаvascript WITH HARDWARE IN OTHER ENVIRONMENTS

jаvascript and constrained hardware

Building with Node.js and tiny computers

In the cloud, in the browser, and beyond