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Designing Embedded Internet Devices (Embedded Technology)

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This book was and easy read. It is organized to get you up-and-running with the TINI microcontroller board by Dallas Semiconductor in no time. This board has Local Area Network (LAN) and communications ports built-in so it can act as a mini HTTP, FTP and Telnet server. The authors describe how to set-up a JAVA application developement system for the TINI board (or JAVA programming in general)under Windows and Linux. The book is written for someone who is familiar with JAVA to use the web-server aspects if TINI, but the programs presented in the book are explained in great detail so that any reader can easily understand the programs' flow and purpose. The last half of the book describes the many ways that the real-world can be connected to the TINI board. These sections require some electronics knowledge to connect the hardware, but the software to use the hardware is explained in an easy-to-understand format and the circuits are simple and easy to expand. This book is a great Internet device primer and reference resource. There is so much good information in this book you will be going back to it again and again for information and design inspiration. I plan to use this book a great deal to help me create a web-based electric train layout for my Senior Design Project at college.

The very thought of building a project using an embedded microprocessor device seems daunting, let alone putting it on the internet! Designing Embedded Internet Devices is a veritable cookbook for using the wonderful TINI single-board computer, programmed using Java, for a host of tasks. Imagine outfitting a home with gizmos to control lights, the temperature, even feeding the cat, all networked together. Imagine being able to log into your home net, and feed the cat from the other side of the world! The TINI board is cheap (around $50) and easy enough to use to do all these and more, and the Java development tools are free. The book's text, drawings and photos are clear enough that even with modest experience in programming and electronic hardware design, you could be creating embedded devices in no time. If you ever thought it would be cool to take programming and your computer to the next level, this book is a must read!

This book is an excellent book for anyone interested in microcontrollers. I had never used JAVA before but with the help of an introduction to java book I was able to easily follow the projects. This is the perfect book for the beginner/intermediate user of microcontrollers and the projects in this book are simple to follow and can be easily expanded for any situation.

The title in big font says "Embedded Internet Devices" but in small font says "Using the TINI Microcontroller". Though it is a good intro to network basics and using a specific internet-ready TINI board to create a HTTP based system, it is not enough for someone who would like to use other devices or other protocols (like telnet and FTP).

Great intro to CAN networking, Java communications classes, 1-wire comm, and I2C bus. But I have to give it low stars due to mis-leading title of the book.

In short, this is the second Newnes book I've been somewhat disappointed with.

Internet Devices are now accesible to anyone and then we need a theorical and practical acknowledge. This book is complete experience with Internet access explaning automation systems and data acquisitions systems. I love the way this book was written. It is easy to understand the skills to build an application.

Spanish: Es un magnifico libro para todo aquel que quiera modernizarse en manejo de dispositivos en Internet.