Acknowledgments

More thanks than I can express go to Ann, Amelia, and Thomas. Their patience during this project has been amazing. Many thanks go to Hugh Blemings, my partner in crime, whose patient discussions during many late-night phone calls helped me understand far more about Arduino.

Thanks also go out to the technical reviewers who provided us the benefit of their expertise and years of experience: Andy Gelme, Marc Alexander, Nathan Seidle, Trent Lloyd, Scott Penrose, Thomas Sprinkmeier, and Philip Lindsay.

Of course, thanks go to the core Arduino team whose vision conjured the whole Arduino ecosystem into existence: Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe, Gianluca Martino, David Mellis, and Nicholas Zambetti.

The parts suppliers who were so helpful when it came to sourcing the random assortment of bits needed for developing these projects, were also invaluable: SparkFun, AsyncLabs, and NKC Electronics.

Any many thanks go to Arduino developers everywhere! The amazing success of Arduino is due to the strong community that has blossomed around it. It's a beautiful thing when imaginative people have new tools placed in their hands, and the results have been inspirational to both Hugh and myself.

Finally, many thanks to Michelle Lowman and James Markham, our editors at Apress, who had to turn out of bed early to catch Hugh and I in a totally different time zone on our weekly Skype call; and copyeditor Vanessa Moore, who put the finishing touches on all our words