Mastering Arduino

364 Pages·069.43 MB·English

by  Jon Hoffman

Mastering Arduino
A project-based approach to electronics,
circuits, and programming
Jon Hoffman
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Mastering Arduino
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I would like to thank my wife, Kim; without her support none of my books would
have been possible. I would also like to thank my two daughters who have both been
my inspiration and driving force since the days they were born.
-Jon Hoffman
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Contributors
About the author
Jon Hoffman has over 25 years of experience in the field of Information Technology. Over
those years, Jon worked in the areas of System Administration, Network Administration,
Network Security, Application Development, and Architecture. Currently, Jon works as an
Enterprise Software Manager for Syntech Systems.
Jon has developed extensively for the iOS platform since 2008. This includes several apps
that he has published in App Store, apps that he wrote for third parties and numerous
enterprise applications. What really drives Jon is the challenges in the Information
Technology field, and there is nothing more exciting to him than overcoming a challenge.
Some of Jon’s other interests are baseball and basketball. Jon also really enjoys TaeKwonDo,
where he and his oldest daughter earned their Black Belts together early in 2014. Kim (his
wife) earned her Black Belt at the end of 2014.
About the reviewers
Dr. Pratik Desai is a computer scientist and an engineering leader. His fields of
expertise include the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Connected Cars. He is a
pioneer researcher in IoT and the published author of Python Programming for Arduino. In
his spare time, Pratik likes tinkering with sensors and working on Python projects.
Ejike is a developer with a serious love of sharing his skills and knowledge with his fellow
developers and beginners in the industry. He has spent his few years as a lead instructor in
computer programming and has enjoyed the most part of his life doing live trainings with
over hundreds of students. Ejike derives joy in building the next generation of software and
hardware developers who do amazing things in the industry today. He led the team of
developers who participated in Forbes' Under 30 Change the World Challenge, judged by a
panel of professionals at the Wharton school of the university of Pennsylvania in 2015.
His love for computer programming in his early stage in life got Ejike into Java, C, C#, C++,
Python, MikroC, Arduino, and lots of other programming languages and embedded system
designs. He began to think that he is crazy until I started developing advance projects for
clients and getting amazing job offers from reputable companies across America, Asia, and
Africa.
The worst part of Ejike’s life as a software developer is seeing himself coding always in his dreams.
The best part of his life as a developer is NOT building advanced and complicated projects
with different programming languages combine together, but, building the next generation
of developers and seeing them excel in the industry like him and other senior developers
around him. He is always happy each time his students get across to him to tell him how
they successfully got employed by one reputable firm or the other, and how they pick up
fast in their respective companies to become senior developers with mouth-watering
salaries!
Ejike’s courses are one of the most comprehensive ones in the market today!
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