Vous avez envie de concevoir des montages avec Arduino ou Raspberry Pi qui interagissent avec leur environnement ? Pour cela vous avez besoin de capteurs, et cet ouvrage vous aidera a passer rapidement des idees a la realisation. Chaque chapitre est consacre a un type de capteur (mouvement, lumiere, son, etc.) et comporte:
des experiences qui expliquent la maniere d'utiliser un capteur; des tests de validation; un mini-projet qui montre comment combiner differentes technologies pour obtenir un montage performant. Les nombreux exemples de code commentes vous seront precieux pour creer vos propres projets. Les montages que vous pourrez realiser:
un ethylotest personnel, un detecteur de fumee qui envoie un courriel d'alerte, une sonnette hantee qui sonne avant qu'on ne la touche, un jeu video Pong, un dome lumineux sensible a la couleur, un ecran graphique qui reagit aux sons ambiants, une station meteo... Le code source des programmes et de nombreux liens et references utiles sont disponibles sur www.dunod.com/contenus-complementaire... ainsi que sur botbook.com, le site de reference de la version d'origine.
Slightly more readable than datasheets without any really new information - this is basically just a book of pinouts for different sensors and a couple of "projects" that aren't particularly involved (e.g. use a ping sensor and a buzzer to beep whenever it detects you standing too close to a screen)
If you purchase this with a kit, it seems like a very good tutorial book. If you get this at the library and happen to have some of these parts, this will likely prove easier to read than the datasheets for those parts, and you can skip everything you don't already own. If you find this in a bookstore, you should consider just using tutorials on arduino.cc
If you're into electronics and need some memory refresher on sensors, arduino and Raspberry Pi, this is good read. Examples are a outdated for the Raspberry Pi but if you know your way through Python, GPIO and stuffs you won't have a problem porting example codes to newer version.
I don't know what they're teaching in Finland today, but I like these authors and their sense of curiosity. Good on them for writing this book!
This book is what makes the Maker movement kick some tail. "Make: Sensors," covers both Ardunio and Raspberry Pi connections, coding, layouts. I was happily amazed at what I got when the book arrived in the mail. I knocked down another Make: book due to lack of color diagrams... well, Make: Sensors has those color Fritzing diagrams to show the layout connections.
The only downside (if you can call it that) is the price. If you want it, get it. If you've got a cursory interest, rent it perhaps or take a gander at the bookstore.
Most (if not all) of the projects will require sensors or things that cannot be readily obtained at your local electronics store. If you want to do the projects, you'll have to get these components.
Bottom Line: if you want your Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects to "sense" the real world, get a good start by getting "Make: Sensors."
Reasonable coverage of a broad topic. All of the projects are build-able, the code examples have separate comments which are pretty useful. A good beginning book.