Make: Getting Started with Sensors

Make: Getting Started with Sensors by Kimmo Karvinen and Tero Karvinen explains how to build electronics projects that sense the physical world. Sensors react to physical phenomena by sending an electrical signal, and this book shows how to read and act on that signal, starting simple and moving up to microcontrollers and Linux boards.

Key features

• Begins with basic electronic circuits that read and react to a sensor
• Moves on to developing sensor systems with Arduino
• Finishes with sensor projects on the Linux-powered Raspberry Pi
• Shows how projects can react in interesting ways and even connect to the internet
• Tero Karvinen teaches Linux and embedded systems at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences

Specifications

• Author: Kimmo Karvinen and Tero Karvinen
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 138
• Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.4 in
• Publication date: September 23, 2014

It suits readers who are comfortable following a circuit diagram and want a compact, practical route from simple sensor circuits to connected projects. Try the ideas out with our Raspberry Pi BME280 weather station tutorial.