This class is about prototyping physical artifacts that are connected to the Internet: allowing things sensed about the physical world to be acted on in the cloud, and to allow things happening on the Internet to be reflected in the physical world. The focus of the class is on learning by doing.

Inspirations

This class has been heavily inspired, and in some cases modeled on, a number of classes taught at other universities:

Resources

General Making resources

Photon

Javascript

There are quite a few Javascript books available via the RIT Library. Use this search link for a list of them.

A couple of books to look for, whether online, physically via the library, or buying them yourself:

Other online resources:

Learning about electronics