Book Description
Over the last few years, members of the O'Reilly community have increasingly turned their attention to hardware. It's getting much easier to design, prototype, build and market hardware, and it's getting easier to integrate software and hardware into fluid packages of intelligence, beauty, and intuitive design. Hardware and software are coming together, and it's becoming essential for each side to understand the other.
Collected here are a few of the stories and theories from our alpha-geek friends that come from the convergence of software and hardware.
This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY). You can download Software & Hardware Collide ebook for free in PDF format (7.6 MB).
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Software, Hardware, Everywhere
Chapter 3
More 1876 than 1995
Chapter 4
The New Bot on the Block 11
Chapter 5
If This/Then That (IFTTT) and the Belkin WeMo
Chapter 6
I, Cyborg
Chapter 7
#IoTH: The Internet of Things and Humans
Chapter 8
The Industrial Internet of Things 33
Chapter 9
Trope or Fact? Technology Creates More Jobs than It Destroys
Chapter 10
Architecture, Design, and the Connected Environment
Chapter 11
iBeacon Basics
Chapter 12
The Lingering Seduction of the Page
Chapter 13
Let There Be (Intelligent) Light