Practical Arduino

出版者:Apress

作者:Jonathan Oxer

页数:500

出版时间:2009-12-28

价格:USD 39.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781430224778

具体描述

Product Description

Create your own Arduino-based designs, gain in-depth knowledge of the architecture of Arduino, and learn the user-friendly Arduino language all in the context of practical projects that you can build yourself at home. Get hands-on experience using a variety of projects and recipes for everything from home automation to test equipment.

Arduino has taken off as an incredibly popular building block among ubicomp (ubiquitous computing) enthusiasts, robotics hobbyists, and DIY home automation developers. Authors Jonathan Oxer and Hugh Blemings provide detailed instructions for building a wide range of both practical and fun Arduino-related projects, covering areas such as hobbies, automotive, communications, home automation, and instrumentation.

* Take Arduino beyond "blink" to a wide variety of projects from simple to challenging

* Hands-on recipes for everything from home automation to interfacing with your car engine management system

* Explanations of techniques and references to handy resources for ubiquitous computing projects

Supplementary material includes a circuit schematic reference, introductions to a range of electronic engineering principles and general hints & tips. These combine with the projects themselves to make Practical Arduino: Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware an invaluable reference for Arduino users of all levels. You'll learn a wide variety of techniques that can be applied to your own projects.

What you'll learn

* Communication with serial devices including RFID readers, temperature sensors, and GPS modules

* Connecting Arduino to Ethernet and WiFi networks

* Adding synthesized speech to Arduino

* Linking Arduino to web services

* Decoding data streams from commercial wireless devices

* How to make DIY prototyping shields for only a couple of dollars

Who is this book for?

This book is for hobbyists and developers interested in physical computing using a low-cost, easy-to-learn platform.

作者简介

Jonathan Oxer, who has been labeled "Australia's Geekiest Man," has been hacking on both hardware and software since he was a little tacker. He is a former president of Linux Australia, and founder and technical director of Internet Vision Technologies. He is author of a number of books including How to Build a Website and Stay Sane, Ubuntu Hacks, and Quickstart Guide to Google AdWords. He has been surgically implanted with an RFID chip and is set to host an upcoming TV show called SuperHouse (www.superhouse.tv) featuring high-tech home renovation, open source automation systems, and domestic hardware hacking. Jonathan has appeared on top-rating TV shows and been interviewed on dozens of radio stations about his home automation system. He was technical supervisor for the first season of the reality TV show The Phone, has connected his car to the Internet (www.geekmyride.org), and is also a member of the core team of Lunar Numbat (www.lunarnumbat.org), an Australian group working with the European team White Label Space (www.whitelabelspace.com) on an unmanned moon mission for the Google Lunar X-Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Oxer).

Hugh took a radio apart when he was about eight and never recovered. From this start and an interest in Ham Radio an early career doing hardware and embedded software development followed back when 68HC11's were the latest and greatest.

Hugh has been working on Free software since the mid-90's for fun and as a (still fun!) paid gig since 1999. He was co-author of the gnokii project and developed kernel device drivers for the Keyspan USB-serial adaptors. He worked at IBM's Linux Technology Centre as a Open Source Hacker in the Canberra based OzLabs team for just shy of eight years doing everything from first line management to Linux kernel porting for embedded PowerPC platforms.

He now works on Ubuntu Linux at Canonical in the kernel team but remains firmly of the view that any day that involves a soldering iron, a 'scope and emacs is a good day.

读后感

不适合新手阅读，有一定arduino软硬件基础后读起来非常爽。每个项目都详细介绍了硬件和代码的注意事项。很多章节作者不忘来把黑色幽默。难得的好书。 作者是50多岁活跃在开源硬件社区的大牛。书中有介绍国内最大开源硬件厂商seeed的部分，超级有惊喜。

不适合新手阅读，有一定arduino软硬件基础后读起来非常爽。每个项目都详细介绍了硬件和代码的注意事项。很多章节作者不忘来把黑色幽默。难得的好书。 作者是50多岁活跃在开源硬件社区的大牛。书中有介绍国内最大开源硬件厂商seeed的部分，超级有惊喜。

不适合新手阅读，有一定arduino软硬件基础后读起来非常爽。每个项目都详细介绍了硬件和代码的注意事项。很多章节作者不忘来把黑色幽默。难得的好书。 作者是50多岁活跃在开源硬件社区的大牛。书中有介绍国内最大开源硬件厂商seeed的部分，超级有惊喜。

不适合新手阅读，有一定arduino软硬件基础后读起来非常爽。每个项目都详细介绍了硬件和代码的注意事项。很多章节作者不忘来把黑色幽默。难得的好书。 作者是50多岁活跃在开源硬件社区的大牛。书中有介绍国内最大开源硬件厂商seeed的部分，超级有惊喜。

不适合新手阅读，有一定arduino软硬件基础后读起来非常爽。每个项目都详细介绍了硬件和代码的注意事项。很多章节作者不忘来把黑色幽默。难得的好书。 作者是50多岁活跃在开源硬件社区的大牛。书中有介绍国内最大开源硬件厂商seeed的部分，超级有惊喜。

用户评价

真正让我眼前一亮的是作者在项目设计上的独到见解。这本书的结构不是那种生硬的章节罗列，而是围绕着一系列由浅入深的实际应用场景展开的。比如，书中有一个章节专门探讨了如何利用Arduino构建一个简易的智能家居系统，它不仅仅是教你如何控制一个继电器开关灯，更重要的是，它引导读者思考如何优化代码的效率，如何设计一个用户友好的界面（即使用LCD屏），以及如何处理可能出现的电源干扰问题。这已经超越了一本“如何入门”的书籍的范畴，更像是一位经验丰富的老工程师在传授他的“工程哲学”。我印象非常深刻的是其中关于软件模块化的讨论，作者强调了将不同功能封装成独立库的好处，这极大地提升了我后续维护和扩展自己代码的能力。这种系统性的思维训练，远比单纯的“照猫画虎”式的教程更有价值。

从排版和阅读体验上来说，这本书也做得非常出色，这在技术书籍中并不常见。字体选择和行距的把握恰到好处，使得冗长的代码块和复杂的电路图看起来一点都不费力。更重要的是，作者在解释关键概念时，总是能找到非常形象的比喻。比如，他用“水流通过水管的压力”来类比“电压和电流的关系”，这种生动的类比，让我那些模糊不清的概念瞬间变得清晰起来。此外，书中很多案例都提供了完整的物料清单（BOM），甚至连推荐的购买渠道都略有提及，这种细致入微的服务意识，极大地减少了初学者到处搜集配件的时间成本。我甚至发现自己开始期待阅读下一页，而不是把它当作一项需要完成的任务。

这本书的开篇就抓住了我，它没有那种让人望而生畏的技术术语堆砌，而是用一种非常平易近人的方式，将复杂的电子学概念拆解得如同搭积木一般简单。我记得我当时正在为一个DIY项目寻找一个合适的微控制器平台，市面上很多入门级的书籍要么过于理论化，让人读完一头雾水，要么就是只教你复制代码，却不解释背后的原理。这本书完全不同，它花了大量的篇幅讲解了基础的电路知识和Arduino IDE的使用技巧，甚至连如何正确地焊接元件都讲得细致入微，配图清晰得仿佛就在手把手教你操作。特别是关于传感器接口的部分，它没有局限于介绍几种常见的模块，而是深入剖析了不同类型传感器（比如模拟输入和数字输入）的工作机制，让我明白了为什么有些数据需要校准，而有些则可以直接读取。读完前几章，我对自己动手制作一个能实时监测环境湿度的装置充满了信心，那种知识被有效吸收并立即能付诸实践的感觉，是其他很多技术书籍无法比拟的。

这本书给我的最大感受是，它真正做到了“授人以渔”。它没有预设你的学习背景，而是从最基础的“为什么”开始讲起，一步步引导你建立起一个完整的知识体系。它不像某些教材那样，只关注某一个特定芯片或某一个特定版本的库，而是着眼于底层逻辑和通用的设计原则。这意味着书中的知识具有很强的迁移性。当我后来接触到其他基于ARM架构的开发板时，我在书中建立的关于中断处理和时序控制的理解框架依然适用。这种对基础原理的深耕细作，是衡量一本优秀技术书籍的核心标准，而这本书无疑是其中的佼佼者。它不仅是一本工具书，更是一本奠定未来学习基础的“内功心法”。

这本书的深度和广度令人叹服，它没有停留在桌面应用层面，而是大胆地探索了一些更前沿的领域。我特别欣赏它对通信协议的介绍，尤其是如何利用Arduino实现低功耗的无线通信。作者清晰地对比了不同无线模块的优缺点，并提供了实战代码，让我能够快速搭建起一个点对点的通信网络原型。更难得的是，书中还涉及到了一些嵌入式系统调试的“黑魔法”——那些你在官方文档里找不到，但却是项目失败时最需要的东西。比如，如何使用万用表配合示波器来追踪信号异常，以及如何进行内存优化以应对资源受限的环境。这种实战经验的分享，让这本书的价值倍增，感觉就像是买了一张通往专业级硬件开发秘密的门票。