Making Things Smart

Part VI. Conclusion

Many of the machines in this book have been very basic, requiring very little skill or care during assembly. While you can get better results from less wobbly machinery, I hope that if nothing else this book has shown you that you don’t need amazing skills, tools, or expensive components to make fun devices.

You’ve learned how to control motors, use sensors, and then how to use a microcontroller to combine everything to get the right result from very simple machinery.

But we haven’t even covered some of the most exciting parts of microcontroller development: adding displays, interesting sensors, and making multiple devices work together.