Arduino Networking

The writing style is stagnant and as we compare paragraphs in each chapter it looks like they were cut and pasted together. This book needs a professional editor to guide a lazy author. Sorry I bought this book.

Not always clear.

Some gratifying information.

Really, great guide for beginning in networking with arduino

I have used one of the examples suggested by the author to set up a personal web server. However, I had some questions for the author regarding the Arduino web described by him in chapters 2 and 3. My arduino server freezes once in a while sending spikes to the html plot and sometimes it stops working at all. I sent a few emails to the author since he offered his help in the book, but he never replied. Why to write a book at all if you cannot provide a feedback. He must have known about the limitations of this device namely that it may not be used as a professional data web server but wrote a book. Why? To make a profit of course. It is very low!

For many of you Arduino enthusiasts, the project you work on will need a way to connect your hardware to a network. As a practical matter, that network is likely to be your local network or the Internet. This text gives a means, using the Arduino Ethernet shield. The slender nature of the book hints at how straightforward this can be.Given the hardware, the steps in the text's examples show how to upload data, including how to plot this in a rudimentary way on a terminal window. Back to basics indeed. For debugging, this makes the mininum needed. No fancy interactions with a web server. At least initially. But the text then goes onwards, to explain to to hook up to a web server. Chapter 3 actually makes the web on the Arduino motherboard. Impressive use of the memory and CPU now commonly available in Arduino !Another key variant is later in the book, when it shows how to use a web server on the Internet to remotely control your device. The advantages and uses are manifold. Albeit with the requirement that the device needs to be accessible from the Internet.Happy tinkering.

As much fun as it is connecting sensors to an Arduino, and displaying data on a LCD, lighting LED's, or other local actions, the real power is when you connect to a network. Whether it's a local network and you are communicating between them or collecting data in a central database (Raspberry Pi), or connecting to the internet and contributing local weather data to a server, or broadcasting data with email or Twitter, even pulling down information like emails, tweets, or scraping other websites for data for local display, there's a lot of fun to be had.One book that explains how this all works, and gives you easy to replicate (and understand) projects is "Arduino Networking" by Marco Schwartz. This book delves into the abilities of network connectivity, explaining how and why it works, and leaves your mind swirling with new applications, and the ability to execute them. It's a must have on any maker's shelf!

This book is explained in a very clear and step-wise way which makes it extremely easy for anyone to follow from the Arduino Hobbyist beginner to the most experienced. Mr.Schwartz has proven to be over and over again with the release of other books on this subject matter to be trustworthy.

Partner very impressed with this