Amariei - Arduino Development Cookbook

Cornel Amariei is a Romanian inventor and entrepreneur in the fields of Robotics and 3D printing. He has been working with the Arduino platform since its early days in 2007. His past experience involves large cargo gamma ray scanning robotics, ATM security systems, and blind assisting devices. In his spare time, he is a performing musician playing multiple instrumentspredominately the guitar. He is also a swimmer, water polo player, and photographer.

Over the years, he has built hundreds of Arduino projects, ranging from flying Quadcopters to levitating magnets and underwater robots. Currently, he splits his time between doing his undergraduate studies in electric engineering and computer science at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, and his start-ups and research and development job.

I would like to thank my parents: my mother, Cristina, and my father, Eugen, for buying me my first technology book 18 years ago. I don't know whether this was the intended path they had in mind for me, but considering the amount of support they offered during the writing of this book, I believe now it is.

I would also like to thank my friends, colleagues, and business partners for accepting my new project and providing me with the time required to complete it, even if this meant more work for them.

Finally, I would like to thank Packt Publishing for offering me the chance to write this book and for handling all the delays I brought to the project, as most of this book was written in transit, short breaks, late nights, and early mornings.

Thank you.

Simone Bianchi lives in Italy, where he got a degree in electronic engineering.

Now he works full time for a software house as a Java developer. In his spare time, he likes to feed his curious side by exploring other topics so that he can develop components for the Talend platform, an app for the Android system, delight himself by building IoT projects using different micro controllers (such as the Arduino and Spark Core) with the help of his 6-year-old nephew, Leonardo, or simply learn new things such as AngularJS or 3D graphics.

I'd like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to review their book again after Talend for Big Data and Arduino Android Blueprints , and I hope I have contributed to making this your favorite book companion during your Arduino projects.

Leo, here is your project book.

Wilson da Rocha Frana is a system architect in a leading online retail company in Latin America. He is an IT professional, computer science passionate, and an open source enthusiast; he graduated with a university degree from Centro Federal de Educao Tecnolgica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2005 and also holds a master of business administration degree from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 2010.

He is passionate about e-commerce and the Web; he had the opportunity to work not only in online retail, but also in other markets, such as comparison shopping and online classifieds. He has dedicated most of his time to being a Java web developer.

He is currently working on a MongoDB book and had also worked as a reviewer on Instant Varnish Cache How-to , Packt Publishing .

First and foremost, I would like to thank my wife, Christiane, for standing by me. I would also like to express my special gratitude to Packt Publishing for giving me such attention and time. My thanks and appreciation also go to my family and people who have helped me out with their abilities.

Vincent Gijsen is an all-rounder. With a bachelor's in embedded systems and a master's in information science, he has also worked in a big data start-up and is currently working as a security officer and cyber security consultant regarding vital infrastructure. He has been a reviewer on Storm Blueprints: Patterns for Distributed Real-time Computation, Packt Publishing.

He has a broad range of interests. In his spare time, he likes to fiddle with lasers, microcontrollers, and other related electronics, hence this review. He hopes you like this book as much as he enjoyed reviewing it.

Francis Perea is a professional education professor at Consejera de Educacin de la Junta de Andaluca in Spain with more than 14 years of experience.

He specializes in system administration, web development, and content management systems. In his spare time, he works as a freelancer and collaborates, among others, with multimedia, a little design studio in Crdoba working as a system administrator and main web developer.

He has also collaborated as a technical reviewer for SketchUp 2013 for Architectural Visualization , Arduino Home Automation , and Internet of Things with the Arduino Yn , by Packt Publishing.

When not sitting in front of a computer or tinkering in his workshop, he can be found mountain biking or kitesurfing or as a beekeeper taking care of his hives in Axarqua County, where he lives.

I would like to thank my wife, Salom, and our three kids, Paula, lvaro, and Javi, for all the support they give me even when we all are busy. There are no words to express my gratitude.

I would also like to thank my colleagues in multimedia and my students for being patient. The need to be at the level you demand is what keeps me going forward.