What this book covers

Chapter 1, Internet-Controlled PowerSwitch, briefly introduces Arduino UNO and Arduino Ethernet shield basics while focusing on building an Internet-controlled PowerSwitch using Arduino UNO, the Arduino Ethernet shield, and PowerSwitch Tail to turn electrical appliances on/off through the Internet via a web-based user interface. Also, you will learn how to increase the complexity of PowerSwitch by adding a circuit to track the mains electricity.

Chapter 2, Wi-Fi Signal Strength Reader and Haptic Feedback, briefly introduces Arduino Wi-Fi shield basics, vibration motors, and haptic feedback. You will learn how to make advanced vibration patterns using vibration motors with a haptic motor controller and the Adafruit haptic library according to the Wi-Fi signal strength received by the Arduino Wi-Fi shield.

Chapter 3, Internet-Connected Smart Water Meter, focuses on building a flow sensor-based water meter in conjunction with the Arduino Ethernet shield to measure water flow rate and volume, and then display them on an LCD screen. In addition, you will learn how to convert this water meter to a web server and request readings through the Internet of Ethernet.

Chapter 4, Arduino Security Camera with Motion Detection, explains how to incrementally develop a Arduino Ethernet shield-based security camera with the Adafruit TTL Serial JPEG camera and the VC0706 camera library. In addition, you will learn how to add motion detection functionality and upload the captured images to Flickr.

Chapter 5, Solar Panel Voltage Logging with NearBus Cloud Connector and Xively, briefly introduces the NearBus cloud connector and Xively, while focusing on building a solar panel voltage logger with the Arduino Ethernet shield with a few electronic components. Also, you will learn how to log the output voltage of a solar panel in combination with NearBus and Xively, and then display real-time data that can be viewed through a web browser.

Chapter 6, GPS Location Tracker with Temboo, Twilio, and Google Maps, briefly introduces the GPS shield and how to use the TinyGPSPlus library and the Google JavaScript API library to build a real-time location tracker to display the current location of the GPS shield on Google Maps. You will also learn the basics of Temboo and Twilio cloud services.

Chapter 7, Tweet-a-Light – Twitter-Enabled Electric Light, introduces Python, a more powerful programming language that can be used to read Twitter tweets and write data to a computer's serial port accordingly. Finally, you will learn to build an electric light switch that can be controlled using Twitter tweets to turn the switch on and off.

Chapter 8, Controlling Infrared Devices Using IR Remote, focuses on building an infrared remote control with the Arduino Ethernet shield and a few electronic components that can be controlled through the Ethernet or Internet to control IR-enabled devices remotely. You will learn how to record and reproduce IR commands using the Arduino IR remote library. In addition, you will learn how to add IR functionality to non-IR enabled devices.