I would like to thank my sweet wife Angela and our daughter Alice for having been my unconditional supporters. Special thanks to our son Max, who was born between the writing of Chapter 11 and Chapter 12!

I would also like to thank my two great friends Laurent Boghossian and Denis Laffont because they were there for me all through the course of this huge project with their advices, jokes, and unconditional support.

I would like to extend many thanks to two very nice persons and friends whom I asked to review this book for me: Glenn D. Reuther and Darwin Grosse.

I thank the following great programmers who coded some libraries that have been used in this book: Marcello Romani (the SimpleTimer library), Juan Hernandez (the ShiftOutX library), Thomas Ouellet Fredericks (the Bounce library), Tim Barrass (the Mozzi library), David A. Mellis from MIT (the PCM library), Michael Margolis and Bill Perry (the glcd-arduino library), and Markku Rossi (Arduino Twitter Library with OAuth Support).

I want to thank the creators of the following powerful frameworks used in this book besides the Arduino framework itself: Max 6, Processing, and Fritzing.

Lastly, I'd like to hug Massimo Banzi and Arduino's project team for having initiated this great project and inspired us so much.