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Making Things Talk

Making Things Talk Author: Tom Igoe Publisher: O'Reilly Published: 2007 Pages: 426

Making Things Talk

Making Things Talk Chapters

Making Things Talk Chapters

1. Preface
   • Who This Book Is For
   • What You Need to Know
   • Contents of this Book
   • On Buying Parts
   • Using Code Examples
   • Using Circuit Examples
2. The Tools
   • It Starts with the Stuff You Touch
   • It's About Pulses
   • Computers of All Shapes and Sizes
   • Good Habits
   • Tools
   • Using the Command Line
   • It Ends with the Stuff You Touch
3. The Simplest Network
   • Layers of Agreement
   • Making the Connection: The Lower Layers
   • Saying Something: The Application Layers
   • Flow Control
4. A More Complex Network
   • Network Maps and Addresses
   • Clients, Servers and Message Protocols
5. Look Ma! No Computer
   • Introducing Network Modules
   • An Embedded Network Client Application
   • Serial-to-Ethernet Modules: Programming and Troubleshooting Tools
6. Communicating in (Near) Real Time
   • Interactive Systems and Feedback Loops
   • Transmission Control Protocol: Sockets and Sessions
7. Wireless Communication
   • Why Isn't Everything Wireless?
   • Two Flavors of Wireless: Infrared and Radio
   • An XBee Serial Terminal
   • What About Wi-Fi?
   • Buying Radios
8. The Tools
   • Look Ma: No Microcontroller!
   • Who's Out There? Broadcast Messages
   • Directed Messages
9. How to Locate (Almost) Anything
   • Network Location and Physical Location
   • Determining Distance
   • Determining Position Through Trilateration
   • Determining Orientation
10. Identification
    • Physical Identification
    • Network Identification

Making Things Talk Appendices

1. And Another Thing
   • Other Useful Protocols
   • Proxies of All Kinds
   • Mobile Phone Application Development
   • Other Microcontrollers
   • New Tools
2. Where to Get Stuff
   • Hardware
   • Software
3. Program Listings
4. Index