Acknowledgments

My gratitude starts right where my love of hardware hacking began: with the Over the Air conference crew and The National Museum of Computing (UK), whence my initial Arduino Starter Kit originated. None of this would have happened without that serendipitous event. Dan Appelquist, Margaret Gold, and Matthew Cashmore—thank you for creating such a superb conference and inviting me to it, more than once, even!

Rick Waldron achieves more in a day than I do in a month. (Rick, your JavaScript genius is legend.) His involvement with TC-39, the ECMA working group responsible for the JavaScript language itself, means he is literally indispensable. Oh, and he also invented Johnny-Five, the leading open source Node.js framework for robotics and IoT, around which much of this book revolves. I could go on for pages, chapters, about Rick.

Writing a book takes a ridiculously large amount of time. Huge thanks go to leaders and colleagues at Bocoup for giving me the time and support I needed, and for continuously pumping steady amounts of enthusiasm in my direction, as well as to the partners and staff at Cloud Four for their patience.