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Family Projects for Smart Objects: Tabletop Projects That Respond to Your World Paperback – October 18, 2016

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"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 -- and your cell phone, too! -- that sense your world and report back. The great thing is that 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.

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Welcome to the World of Smart Objects

The internet of things is a buzzphrase that's become almost meaningless. Is it a toaster that texts? Is it a fitness band on your wrist? Is it a wireless camera in an infant's room? Sure, it’s all of those things and more.

These days, it’s not much of a surprise that objects can sense things and communicate. You very likely have an uber-sophisticated sensor and communications system in your pocket or purse—capable of tracking your steps, capturing an image, and ordering your groceries. (I hear some people even use them to make phone calls!)

What might be surprising, is that it's not hard or expensive to make a sensing, communicating object yourself. And making smart objects can be rewarding, fun and even useful.

This book will give you the basics for building such things. The projects here are sometimes useful and sometimes just playful. With luck, they’ll spark new ideas for how you might imagine, and build, your own useful and playful objects. Enjoy!

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I love building things and learning along the way, and this book grew out of my attempt to make something every week for a year. It's a collection of 11 projects designed to introduce beginners to Arduinos, sensors and "internet of things" things. I tried to make it as accessible as possible, with step-by-step instructions intended for girls, boys, women and men who have never done anything like this before.

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John Keefe is the Senior Editor for Data News at public radio station WNYC in New York, leading a team that specializes in data reporting, investigations, visualizations and engagement projects that are both useful and playful. These range from hurricane-tracking maps to do-it-yourself kits to help predict a cicada emergence. Keefe previously led WNYC's news operation, developing its election coverage and breaking news capacity. He is an adjunct instructor in the Journalism + Design program at the New School, teaches workshops at the City University of New York journalism school and served as an Innovator in Residence at the West Virginia University Reed College of Media. He loves building useful, playful things for his family, himself and just for the fun of it -- often with friends who, together, call themselves Team Blinky. When he realized there just wasn't enough making in his life, he committed himself to making something new every week for a year. In the process, he managed to make a lot of new things, learning about electronics, sensors and coding in the process.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Make Community, LLC; 1st edition (October 18, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1680451235
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1680451238
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 0.5 x 9.2 inches

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John Keefe is a journalist, tinkerer and professional beginner based in New York City. He's been playing with circuits and new technologies since he was a child, and loves helping other beginners explore their digital and physical words. He once tried to make -- and write about -- something new every week for a year, and that effort led to his first book, "Family Projects for Smart Objects." John works in public media, helps journalists navigate new technologies, teaches college students at New York-area journalism schools and runs hands-on "blinky" workshops for children.