Hoffman - Mastering Arduino: a project-based approach to electronics, circuits, and programming

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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.

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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 Jons 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.

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 Ejikes 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!

Ejikes courses are one of the most comprehensive ones in the market today!

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Mastering Arduino is an all-in-one guide to getting the most out of your Arduino. This practical, no-nonsense guide teaches you all of the electronics and programming skills that you need, to create advanced Arduino projects. This book is packed full of real-world projects for you to practice on, bringing all of the knowledge in the book together and giving you the skills to build your own robot from the examples in this book. The final two chapters discuss wireless technologies and how they can be used in your projects.