Chapter 7. Conclusions

It’s closing time; you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

This book is meant to be an introduction to the wide world of possibilities using Intel Edison: Linux, programming, sensors, Bluetooth, WiFi, and especially combinations of them. When all of these ideas can be fused together in one system, that’s when interesting new concepts and ideas can become reality. Intel Edison is the first true maker device that provides this possibility right out of the box.

This book is not, by any means, a comprehensive overview of every aspect of Intel Edison. The WiFi and Bluetooth alone would probably fill the book, and more text books have been written about image and audio processing than I care to count. But if you’re ...

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