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Designing the Internet of Things:

Prototyping, Business Models and Manufacture

Introduction 30 pages

Overview

• Who should read this book
• What’s in the book
• What do I need to read/use this book

Design for humans first

Whole system design

• online component
• play to strengths of each device

PC for configuration

IoT device/appliance for main interaction

Why Things?

What’s Your Big Idea?

• Just for you or to sell to lots of people?
• Mass personalisation/mass customisation

PART I: Prototyping

Chapter 1: Thinking about Prototyping 20 pages

Overview of available microcontroller/embedded boards

Choosing your platform

Costs vs ease of prototyping

Thinking about prototypes and production

Open source vs closed source

Tapping into the community

Chapter 2: Prototyping for Specific Devices 40 pages

Electronics

• Inputs: sensors, switches and controls
• Outputs: motors, LED and displays, audio

Arduino

• capabilities
• example projects
• shields

Netduino

• capabilities
• example projects

BeagleBone

• capabilities
• example projects

Raspberry Pi

• capabilities
• example projects

BeagleBoard

• capabilities
• example projects

Plug Computing

• capabilities
• SheevaPlug example projects

Phones

• overview
• Android ADK
• iPhone
• example projects

Repurposing unusual devices

• example projects

Chapter 3: Prototyping the Physical Design 30 pages

Analogue prototyping

• Sugru
• Foamcore
• Cardboard
• Lego

Digital fabrication

• 3D printing
• laser-cutting
• CNC mill

Mechanisms

• Gears
• Linear motion
• Rotary motion

Repurposing and recycling

Chapter 4: Prototyping Online Components 40 pages

Existing APIs

• Twitter
• Pachube
• Mapping

Developing your own API

• REST APIs
• Examples

Service lifetime

• First-class devices
• Example: Nabaztag vs Chumby

Security

Chapter 5: Techniques for writing embedded code 20 pages

Memory limitations

• Tricks for dealing with large quantities of data
• Dynamic memory allocation
• RAM vs Flash

Battery life

Libraries

Debugging

PART II: From Prototype to Reality

Chapter 6: Business models 20 pages

Licensing

Mass personalisation and mass customisation

Open source

IP/Patent protection

Subscription

Traditional retail model

Crowdfunding

• Kickstarter
• Indiegogo

Chapter 7: Moving to manufacture 40 pages

Designing PCBs

• Software

  • Fritzing
  • Eagle
  • KiCad

• Preparing for manufacture

  • Gerber files
  • Layers
  • Soldermask
  • Silkscreen

PCB manufacture

• Panelizing
• Pick and place
• Reflow ovens

Certification

• CE mark, FCC, UL, RoHS, WEEE, etc.
• Toy/food safety

Minimizing support/servicing costs

Chapter 8: Ethics and morals 20 pages

Environmental costs

• Rare earth materials
• Ship bits not atoms
• Recycling (end of life)
• Cradle-to-cradle
• RoHS

Privacy

Empowering vs controlling

Sweatshop

Ethics of automation