September 2007
Beginner to intermediate
432 pages
17h 48m
English
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INDEX 425
Service Discovery Protocol, 71
session, 149
shape recognition, 301
shields
Arduino, 36
Arduino XBee, 196–197
radio, 184
Simple Mail Transport Protocol
(SMTP). See SMTP
SitePlayer, 358
Sjaastad, Mosse, 294–295
sketches, 24
Sklar, David, 32
SMS text messaging, 354–355
SMTP, 92
Sniff, 294–295
sockets, 149
software
interface, defined, 18
Processing, 24–26
suppliers, 366–367
terminal emulation programs, 32–34
X-CTU, 226–227
SoftwareSerial, 139–142
solar cell data project
circuits, 250–254
graphing, 254–258
overview, 250
programming, 254–258
radio settings, 250
solder, 22–23
soldering iron, 22–23
solderless breadboard, 22–23
Sridhar, Sonali, 260–261
Sriskandarajah, Sai, 218–219
ssh, 27
star network model, 82–83
Strang, John, 30
subnet mask, 85, 122
suppliers, xii, 362–367
switches, network, 83
synchronous serial communication,
50–51
T
tags, RFID, 305–307
tail, 62
TCP
packet switching, 86
socket connections, 149
TCP/IP stack, 116
telnet, 27
Dave’s, 89
Linux, 150
Mac OS X, 150
Windows, 150
Terminal, 27
terminal emulation programs, 32–34
test leads, 22–23
testing serial-to-Ethernet modules,
139–145
text messaging, 354–355
time division multiplexing, 185
Tinker.it, 351–352
TinkerProxy, 351–352
Todino-Gonguet, Grace, 30
tools
overview, 21–23
remote access, command-line
interface, 26–30
serial communication, 32–34
software, overview, 24–32
suppliers, 362–365
toxic chemical sensor project
circuits, 230, 232–238
overview, 228–229
programming, 238–245
radio settings, 231–232
transceivers
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