[PDF] Arduino Android Blueprints by Marco Schwartz and Stefan Buttigieg

When straight evaluating Arduino and Android, one can see that they’re two extremely completely different platforms with completely different targets. Arduino is generally targeted on connecting bodily on a regular basis objects to embedded microcontrollers. However, Android intends to supply the mandatory working system and framework to function numerous smartphones all over the world. This actuality additionally displays the contrasting realities of the authors, who come from very completely different backgrounds and cultures;Stefan hails from the Island of Malta, and he brings with him a medical background and ardour for the intersection of know-how and drugs, whereas Marco originates from France and has {an electrical} engineering background. The facility of mixing the efforts of Arduino and Android platforms result in extremely applied sensible initiatives that improve day by day life. Maintaining this motivation in thoughts is what introduced two authors from contrasting backgrounds collectively to work on this e book. We imagine within the intersection of know-how and actual life and visualize a future the place know-how will carry on forming an integral a part of our day-to-day life.

What this e book covers 

Chapter 1, Setting Up Your Workspace, covers the mandatory steps that you’ll have to take to be able to construct all of the initiatives of the e book. You’ll discover ways to arrange the Android improvement atmosphere. We may even construct our first Arduino undertaking.

Chapter 2, Controlling an Arduino Board through Bluetooth, teaches us how one can hyperlink Arduino and Android for the primary time. We are going to construct an Arduino system with a Bluetooth Low Power module, and management a easy LED from an Android software.

Chapter 3, Bluetooth Climate Station, teaches us how one can construct our first helpful software utilizing Arduino and Android. We are going to construct a climate measurement station, and visualize the measurements through an Android software, which we’ll construct from scratch.

Chapter 4, Wi-Fi Sensible Energy Plug, teaches us how one can construct a DIY model of a well-liked gadget: a wi-fi energy swap. We are going to use an Android software to speak with the swap through Wi-Fi, management it, and measure the vitality consumption of the related gadget.

Chapter 5, Wi-Fi Distant Safety Digicam, introduces a robust Arduino board, the Arduino Yún, to construct a DIY wi-fi safety digital camera. We may even construct an Android software to watch this digital camera remotely from an Android telephone.

Chapter 6, Android Cellphone Sensor, explains how one can flip issues round, and use the sensors from our telephone to regulate the Arduino board. Making use of this, we’ll use the gyroscope of the telephone to regulate the angle of a servomotor.

Chapter 7, Voice-activated Arduino, teaches us how one can use the highly effective Android speech API to regulate an Arduino board through Bluetooth.

Chapter 8, Management an Arduino Board through NFC, exhibits how one can use the NFC chip current in lots of Android telephones to activate a relay related to an Arduino board.

Chapter 9, Bluetooth Low Power Cell Robotic, makes use of the whole lot we realized to this point within the e book to construct a cellular robotic primarily based on the Arduino. The robotic might be managed through Wi-Fi from an Android software.

Chapter 10, Pulse Fee Sensor, is devoted to a medical software that measures the center fee. We are going to join a coronary heart fee sensor to Arduino and monitor the measurements through Bluetooth Low Power.

Arduino Android Blueprints: Get the best out of Arduino by interfacing it with Android to create engaging interactive projects

Author(s): Marco Schwartz, Stefan Buttigieg

Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: 2014

ISBN: 978-1-78439-038-9