Avik Dhupar is a hardware hacker and technology designer. He has been making and breaking circuits and toys ever since he was a kid. He was introduced to Arduino at a pretty young age, which changed his course of interest in life. He went on to join the official Arduino team, building and promoting Arduino awareness in India.
Currently, he works at Inveno, where he is making an inclusive and easy robotics and IoT platform for kids to learn programming.
He has worked extensively with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and several other single board computers. He also enjoys designing musical instruments, particularly in the Eurorack format.
I would like to thank Packt for giving me the opportunity to review this amazing book. I would also like to thank my parents, who constantly supported me during the review of this book and influenced me to make and break things.
Rubén Oliva Ramos is a computer systems engineer from Tecnologico de Leon Institute, with a master's degree in computer and electronic systems engineering, teleinformatics and networking specialization from University of Salle Bajio in Leon, Guanajuato Mexico. He has more than five years of experience in developing web applications to control and monitor devices connected with Arduino and Raspberry Pi using web frameworks and cloud services to build Internet of Things applications.
He is a mechatronics teacher at University of Salle Bajio and teaches students on the master's degree in design and engineering of mechatronics systems. He also works at Centro de Bachillerato Tecnologico Industrial 225 in Leon, Guanajuato Mexico, teaching electronics, robotics and control, automation, and microcontrollers at Mechatronics Technician Career. He has worked on consultant and developer projects in areas such as monitoring systems and datalogger data using technologies such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Visual Studio .NET, HTML5, PHP, CSS, Ajax, JavaScript, Angular, ASP .NET databases (SQlite, mongoDB, and MySQL), and web servers (Node.js and IIS).
Ruben has done hardware programming on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Ethernet Shield, GPS, and GSM/GPRS, ESP8266, and control and monitor systems for data acquisition and programming. He has written the book titled Internet of Things Programming with JavaScript, Packt.
His current job involves monitoring, controlling, and acquisition of data with Arduino and Visual Basic .NET for Alfaomega Editor Group.
I want to thank God for helping me reviewing this book, to my wife, Mayte, and my sons, Ruben and Dario, for their support, to my parents, my brother and sister whom I love and to all my beautiful family.