September 2007
Beginner to intermediate
432 pages
17h 48m
English
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circuits (continued)
potentiometer, 44–46
RFID home automation project,
316–317, 319
RFID reader project, 308, 309, 311, 315
solar cell data project, 250–254
toxic chemical sensor project, 230,
232–238
transmitter-receiver pair project,
infrared, 183
transmitter-receiver pair, radio, 187, 188
ultrasonic distance ranger project, 269
upgrading XBee firmware, 227
voltage divider, 42–45
voltage regulator, 44–46
class, 163
clients
defined, 87
ping pong game project, overview, 151
ping pong game project, seesaw,
152–160
ping pong game project, stepper,
160–163
serial-to-Ethernet modules, test,
143–144
clock, rising and falling edges, 268
CoBox Micro, 42, 116–117
code. See programming
colliding messages, radio, 185
color recognition, 297–301
command mode, modems, 75
command-line interface, 26–30
commands, Bluetooth, 207–209
communication protocols, defined,
18–19. See also protocols
components, overview, 21–23
computers, types, 19–20
connections
network models, 82–83
network module project, 118–125
networked cat project, 109–111
ConQwest, 302
constructor methods, 164
control characters, defined, 60
control panel module, X10, 318
Control Systems for Live Entertainment,
347
D
data
layer, 50–54
packets, 62
sheets, 46
types, Processing, 26
datagrams, 222
datalink layer, packet switching, 86
Dave’s Telnet, 89
dBm, 275
debouncing, 105
debugging
infrared, 180
serial-to-Ethernet modules, 139–145
decibel-milliwatts (dBm), 275
delay, debounce, 105
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