Overview
Want to combine iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch sensors with external electronic gadgets? This hands-on book helps you build several projects, using these built-in magnetic, light, and proximity sensors with inexpensive boards such as Arduino and a Bluetooth Low Energy Shield. And you'll tackle these projects by writing programs in techBASIC, an Apple-approved development environment that runs directly on these iOS devices. That's right. You'll quickly learn how to build metal detector, moisture sensing meter, and a rocket-bound iPhone without using Objective-C and Cocoa to access Apple's sensors and without having to enroll in Apple's iOS developer program. With just a few lines of BASIC code, you can write your apps directly on your mobile device for rapid development and prototyping - and watch your project take shape! This book is ideal for hobbyists, students, professional engineers, industrial designers, and inventors.
Full Product Details
Author: Mike Westerfield
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Imprint: O'Reilly Media
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.549kg
ISBN: 9781449363505
ISBN 10: 1449363504
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 29 October 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Finally my iPad can interface with the real world! techBASIC is the easiest and most intuitive programming tool I have ever used. This book really makes me want to explore my creative ideas for controlling things with my iPad. -- Jarle BoeWireless Evangelist, Texas Instruments
Author Information
Mike started programming on a PDP-8 using a teletype terminal. As the personal computer revolution got going he sold his car and rode a bike for several months to raise cash to buy an Apple II computer. He wanted to write a chess program but couldn't find a good assembler, so he took a summer off to write his own. Two years later he finished ORCA/M, which went on to become Apple Programmer's Workshop, the Apple-labeled development environment for the Apple IIGS. Born the same year as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, Mike made the mistake of getting an education instead of getting rich. A slow learner, he graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1977 with a degree in Physics, earned an M.S. in Physics from the University of Denver, and was Working on a Ph.D. when he started making more money from his sideline software company than from the Air Force. Since then Mike has developed numerous compilers and interpreters, software for mission-critical physics packages for military satellites, plasma physics simulations for Z-pinch experiments, multimedia authoring tools for grade schoolers, disease surveillance programs credited with saving lives of hurricane Katrina refugees, advanced military simulations that protect our nation's most critical assets, and technical computing software for iOS. Mike currently runs the Byte Works, an independent software publishing and consulting firm. He is a PADI scuba instructor who lives in Albuquerque with his wife and cat, enjoying being an empty nester and spoiling his grandchildren.
