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JavaScript on Things is your first step into the exciting and downright entertaining world of programming for small electronics. If you know enough JavaScript to hack a website together, you'll be making things go bleep, blink, and spin faster than you can say "nodebot." -- Provided by publisher

Part 1.

A JavaScripter's introduction to hardware. Bringing JavaScript and hardware together -- Embarking on hardware with Arduino -- How to build circuits --

Part 2.

Project basics : input and output with Johnny-Five. Sensors and input -- Output : making things happen -- Output : making things move --

Part 3.

More sophisticated projects. Serial communication -- Projects without wires -- Building your own thing --

Part 4.

Using JavaScript with hardware in other environments. JavaScript and constrained hardware -- Building with Node.js and tiny computers -- In the cloud, in the browser, and beyond