There are plenty of technical books that have come up in the market recently, but few as entertaining at this one. Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects walks us through the process of building electronic gadgets that can interact with other devices as well as with the various physical objects of the world. Have you ever wanted to make your pet‚Äôs bed send you an email? The author, Tom Igoe and Dan O’Sullivan, provide us a series of simple projects that teach the gadgets you create to communicate with one another through the formation of networks of smart devices. In this technical book, everything is well explained as to how to create an electronic device that can easily talk to you as well as interact with its environment.

Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects is written in a reader-friendly language. It contains step by step instructions about how to create such a unique object that is not only fun to play with but also brings praise and recognition. In this technical book, you’ll be trained on a host of small projects.

People who have lot of interest in these ventures but lack subject matter will largely benefit from this book. This technical book is just apt for the beginners who want to experiment with things and come up with innovative ideas of creating gadgets that can interact with the physical objects. If you are a science teacher and want to tell your students as to how to trace the weather condition at different places at a particular point of time, this technical book can be of good help to you.

All you need to know is that how to make the object talk; be it an email program, microcontroller-powered device or a network database program. You will be able to learn effectively by going through this technical book “Making Things Talk” thoroughly. You’ll be surprised to know that with the help of this book, you can do things like making the bed of your pet, send you a mail, and making your Bluetooth radio to pass on sensor data through wireless mode and many more. Before this, have you ever thought that it would be possible to create a working project for you that could virtually communicate with the physical objects of the world?

‘Making Things Talk’ will also tell you how to create your own game controller that can interact online. You can even set up a communication network between your personal computer, microcontroller and internet server. You can write up programs and send them across the internet.

With a bit of technical know-how, you can create several microcontroller kits and a couple of network modules and make them interact with the physical objects using different technologies such as Ethernet, Bluetooth and Zigbee. There are endless options in this technical book and the best part is that they are not so complicated and the outcome is worth trying.

To conclude, Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects is a wonderful book to learn about some easy to make electronic devices that can very well interact with the physical objects. It is 428 pages and is published by Make Books (September 28, 2007).