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Dear Erik,

In 2016, I came across a book of yours, which was about ESP8266, a microcontroller that my company Espressif had developed and released two years earlier. It was the first book ever written about ESP8266. Although I do not speak German and, therefore, I could not read it, I still understood the basic statements you made about ESP8266, as I was going through your text. Your beautiful and numerous illustrations helped me guess the accompanying text. Most importantly, I liked that you promoted the ESP8266 microcontroller as a tool for the Maker movement in as early as 2016. In any case, your assessment back then has been proved correct: Today, in every Maker workshop, no matter where in the world, one can find an ESP8266 or its successor, ESP32, alongside an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi board.

As I learned later, you had also written an extensive book about Arduino. Since its first edition in 2011, this 1,000-page book has been published in three editions already, and has become a reference book about Arduino in German. In this book, not only you do describe the functionality of the Arduino hardware and software, but you also cover the entire Maker catalogue of relevant topics. You explain the basics about electronics in detail and in an easy-to-understand way, you give an introduction to programming, and you show in numerous projects what great things can be developed with the Arduino platform.

In addition, you let the Maker think outside the box, discussing cutting-edge ideas that push the Arduino hobbyist’s creativity further. You have included MQTT, Node-RED, and LoRa-related topics, among many others that can help every Maker develop truly awesome and even complicated projects on their own. I am pleased to see that you have also covered ESP32 with its own project in your book.

I wish you much success for the fourth edition of your Arduino book.

Teo Sween Ann