This book provides the technology fundaments and integration knowledge needed to interface a wide variety of sensors and actuators with the Arduino microcontroller. Readers will have at their fingertips a compendium covering the physical operation, in-circuit and program interfacing, sensor by sensor, for a range of physical quantities, as well as the actuators and control devices needed to operate on the physical world in response to an Arduino program. Alternative power schemes for the Arduino and sensor assembly (Direct, USB, battery, solar) are covered, and extensive references to hardware sources, spec sheets, and Open Hardware designs (where available or applicable) are included.
Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University, and a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation. Previously, Federico has been a CTO and a network software architect at ’.com’ and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent two years teaching in Boston University’s graduate and undergraduate programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events, notably the OSCON, LinuxWorld and IMPlanet conferences, where he was a panelist representing the Jabber community. Federico is a recognized expert in computing performance issues, and consults pro-bono with Standard and Poor’s clients interested in Free/Open Source Software technical and strategic issues. He participated in the GPL v3 drafting process in the large-corporation panel.
