What this book covers
Chapter 1, Setting Up the Galileo Board and the Development Environment, demonstrates how to completely set up the development environment to build and use all the projects that you will find in this book.
Chapter 2, Creating a Weather Measurement and Data Logging Station, covers how to use the inputs of the Intel Galileo board. As an example, we will make a simple weather measurement station that will log data on an SD card.
Chapter 3, Controlling Outputs Using the Galileo Board, covers how to control different devices that can be connected to the Galileo board, such as a servomotor.
Chapter 4, Monitoring Data Remotely, teaches you how to use the Ethernet port of the Galileo board and create a measurement station that can be accessed from your local network.
Chapter 5, Interacting with Web APIs, covers how to connect the Galileo board to the Internet and interact with Web APIs to add more functionalities to the board.
Chapter 6, Internet of Things with Intel Galileo, covers using the Galileo board to create applications in the very exciting field of Internet of Things.
Chapter 7, Controlling Your Galileo Projects from Anywhere, teaches you how to control your Galileo projects from any web browser, wherever you are in the world.
Chapter 8, Displaying the Number of Unread Gmail E-mails on an LCD Screen, lets you use what you learned so far and build an application to display the number of unread e-mails you have in your Gmail inbox on an external LCD screen.
Chapter 9, Automated Remote Gardening with Intel Galileo, covers building another application based on the Galileo board—a complete management system for garden irrigation. You will also be able to monitor it from anywhere in the world.
Chapter 10, Building a Complete Home Automation System, lets you use what you learned so far in this book to build a project in an exciting field—home automation. We will see how to use the Galileo board as the hub of a home automation system.
Chapter 11, Building a Mobile Robot Controlled by the Intel Galileo Board, demonstrates the use of the Galileo board as the "brain" of a mobile robot.
Chapter 12, Controlling the Galileo Board from the Web in Real Time Using MQTT, will let you discover the MQTT protocol that we will use to control the board in real time from a web browser.
