Next Steps

Congratulations on completing the first Arduino-assisted home automation project in this book. You have already learned a lot of reusable ideas in this project. You programmed an Arduino, captured and processed data from a flex resistor, and sent emails with the help of a PHP-enabled web server and the Arduino Ethernet shield. We will be applying these concepts again in some of the other projects in this book.

The cool thing about designing and building your own projects is that they can each be tailored to your own exacting requirements. Prefer a tweet instead of an email alert when the water level exceeds the measurement threshold? No problem. Replace the email functionality with the code from the Tweeting Bird Feeder project ...

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