Building electronic projects that interact with the physical world is good fun. But when devices that you've built start to talk to each other, things really start to get interesting. Through a series of simple projects, you'll learn how to get your creations to communicate with one another by forming networks of smart devices that carry on conversations with you and your environment. Whether you need to plug some sensors in your home to the Internet or create a device that can interact wirelessly with other creations, Making Things Talk explains exactly what you need.

This book is perfect for people with little technical training but a lot of interest. Maybe you're a science teacher who wants to show students how to monitor weather conditions at several locations at once, or a sculptor who wants to stage a room of choreographed mechanical sculptures. Making Things Talk demonstrates that once you figure out how objects communicate -- whether they're microcontroller-powered devices, email programs, or networked databases -- you can get them to interact.

Starting with the August 2008 issue, Nuts & Volts magazine has a new series: Smiley's Workshop for AVR. Smiley is the avrfreaks.net alias for Joe Pardue, the author of C Programming for Microcontrollers. This series will somewhat follow the C Programming book, but will also vary a bit so you can expect the book and the magazine articles to supplement each other in your quest for learning C Programming on AVR microcontrollers.
This post provides the first 11 parts starting from August 2008 until June 2009. The articles provide valuable hints on Microcontroller C Programming, hardware, and projects.

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