Chapter 1. Hello, World Wide Web of Things

2.1. Meet a Web of Things device

2.1.1. The suspect: Raspberry Pi

2.2. Exercise 1—Browse a device on the Web of Things

2.2.1. Part 1—The web as user interface

2.2.2. Part 2—The web as an API

2.2.3. So what?

2.3. Exercise 2—Polling data from a WoT sensor

2.3.1. Part 1—Polling the current sensor value

2.3.2. Part 2—Polling and graphing sensor values

2.3.3. Part 3—Real-time data updates

2.3.4. So what?

2.4. Exercise 3—Act on the real world

2.4.1. Part 1—Use a form to update text to display

2.4.2. Part 2—Create your own form to control devices

2.4.3. So what?

2.5. Exercise 4—Tell the world about your device

2.5.1. So what?

2.6. Exercise 5—Create your first physical mashup

2.6.1. So what?

2.7. Summary

What’s inside