October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
9h 5m
English
In some cases, all of the aforementioned development boards are overkill and what you really want is a boxed kit with some buttons and a screen. Various companies sell internet-connected buttons, so-called smart buttons, which have only one function: when you press the button, the device sends a request to a web server and therefore something happens. Use cases are versatile—with a press, you might order a product on Amazon directly (https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17729534011), without the need to go through the whole process in a web shop.
Other smart buttons might be used for the elderly as an emergency button—pressing one will call an ambulance to an address that was set up previously (https://flic.io/).
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