Preface

Intel Galileo is a great development kit for all your Do-It-Yourself electronics projects. The board has an in-built powerful Intel processor, but is usable with the well-known Arduino software. It is also compatible with most Arduino shields.

This makes it the ideal board for your projects, especially in the fields where you need to use cloud-based services, for example, to store data online. It is therefore a great board for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

In this book, we are going to start setting up your board and building simple applications with the board, such as running a web server on the board. After this, we'll dive into more complex topics, such as IoT applications. Finally, we'll sum up everything we learned in the book by building a simple home automation system based on the Galileo board.