Environmental Monitoring with Arduino: Building Simple Devices to Collect Data About the World Around Us Paperback – Illustrated, March 13, 2012

I have been using Arduino (Mega 2560) for a few months now. I have several books on programming, but this book is the antithesis of programming. That's what makes it so great! This is a book of IDEAS. Practical projects that leave the typical "blink an LED" ideas in the dust.If you are looking for practical, useful, down to earth projects to do with your Arduino, this book is your destination.One caveat, though. Figure 1-4 on page 8 shows an LED connected to pin 13 and ground, with no resistor. You should ALWAYS use a resistor between an LED and ground. Your LED's and your Arduino will both thank you, and both will enjoy a longer life.

The book talked of lots of neat things you could build. Without buying kits though I never did finish one. The failing was on me. Time was short and before I knew it the project had turned cold. I plan on returning to it one day and looking for better sources for materials.

This compact, reasonably priced book is packed with interesting experiments. It describes projects to measure temperature, humidity, radiation, noise, electromagnetic interference, and water conductivity. More importantly, it shows you how to display this information and to connect to the Internet. Like its companion, "Atmospheric Monitoring", it starts with "The World's Shortest Electronics Primer". Code examples are included and described, and code is available for download from a website. There is a bonus chapter on sources for a case to protect the Arduino board.

If you have any other Aduino books, this book is useless. Everything in it can be found in every other project book.

I am a novice Arduino "engineer". I enjoyed the simple but, not over simple explanations and how to. At the end of each chapter, after a project they have a little piece on taking the project to the next level. I would have liked maybe a little idea on how the "next step" should be begin. it was kind of like throwing a dog a bone and then teasing with a chunk of meat. Maybe that could be another book?

I give it 4 stars. It's a good value for the price and for a bit more O'reilly books will upgrade it so you can get the epub and PDF versions also. That way you can access them from more devices. Amazon really should offer their books in more than just Kindle format. I would buy from them more often if they did.

I've dabbles with electronics all my life and recently got hooked up in the Maker world. This is a great book to help intergate Arduinos into something really useful.

Exactly what I was looking for and at a good price.