Book Review: Arduino Networking, by Marco Schwartz
Hey all. Been a while. Hope you've all been having fun adventures ;-) I recently got a copy of the book "Arduino Networking" from Packtpub, for review purposes. Its written by Marco Schwartz of http://www.openhomeautomation.net. It contains six chapters. The first is essentially about getting set up. Here you learn about the materials needed, how to connect them and test that they're ready for network/internet based interaction. Chapter Two deals with using the Arduino to send sensor data to a remote server. Both local and internet-based server scenarios are explored. Chapter Three deals with using the Arduino to log sensor data to an SD card, and having it act as a server which serves sensor data to clients. Chapter Four talks about how to control the Arduino over the internet. Chapter Five talks about logging data to the Xively cloud platform, and Chapter Six talks about using the Temboo platform to interact with other online services (Gmail and Google Spreads