Making Things Smart: Easy Embedded JavaScript Programming for Making Everyday Objects Into Intelligent Machines by Williams, Gordon

Making Things Smart teaches the fundamentals of the powerful ARM microcontroller by walking beginners and experienced users alike through easily assembled projects comprised of inexpensive, hardware-store parts. Projects in this book include: What Is an Electric Motor? Experiment 1: Faraday's Motor Experiment 2: Motor with Commutator Experiment 3: Stepper Motor Experiment 4: Stepper Motor Control Experiment 5: More Stepper Motor Control Stroboscope Tachometer Experiment 6: Detecting Speed Experiment 7: Stroboscope Experiment 8: Brighter Stroboscope John Logie Baird's TV Experiment 9: Persistence of Vision Experiment 10: John Logie Baird's TV Make a Simple Robot Experiment 11: Try Out a Servo Motor Experiment 12: Make a Simple Robot Experiment 13: Following Light Pen Plotter Experiment 14: Pen Plotter Digital Pinhole Camera Experiment 15: Making a Digital Camera Printer Experiment 16: Making a Printer Wired Communication Experiment 17: Making an Oscilloscope Cutting the Cord: I