Family Projects for Smart Objects

Chapter 12 Send Email with a Button

Ingredients

• 1 Arduino
• 1 Arduino USB cable
• 1 breadboard
• 1 push button
• 1 10k-ohm (10kΩ) resistor, which has a brown-black-orange stripe pattern
• 3 jumper wires
• Your computer
• A home wifi network and the password for it
• A web browser
• An email address

Special Items

• Your assembled SparkFun WiFi Shield, from the chapter “Get Your Arduino Online”

Optional Item

• 1 Arduino power supply

If making a computer say “Hello, world” is the first step of programming, and making an LED blink is the “Hello, world” of do-it-yourself smart objects, it’s quite possible that making an “Internet Button” is the “Hello, world” of things that do things on the Internet. The idea is that you push a button in the physical world ...