Includes index

Welcome to the World of Smart Objects -- You Only Have to Do This Once -- Hello Blinky World -- A Dark-Detecting Light -- Night Light -- Ice, Ice Blinky -- A Gentle Touch -- Someone Moved My Stuff! -- Electric Candle -- Invisible Ruler -- Get Your Arduino Online -- Do I Need an Umbrella Today? -- Send Email with a Button -- Online Temperature Tracker -- Afterword: Make More Projects -- Appendix A: Everything You Need -- Appendix B: All of the Code

"'The Internet of Things' is the new buzzphrase, but what is it? A toaster that texts? The fitness band on your wrist? The camera in an infant's room? Sure, it's all of those things. But it's also your phone: an ultra-sophisticated sensor and communications system in your pocket or purse--capable of tracking your steps, capturing an image, or calling an Uber. And it is actually not hard or expensive to make a sensing, communicating object yourself. Doing so can be rewarding, fun, and even useful. This book teaches the basics of building sensors and communicating objects through a series of practical, demonstrative, and fun activities"--Amazon.com