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1. | Rough Cuts  By: Simon Monk Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-DEC-2013 Insert Date: 19-JUN-2013 | Overview: Raspberry Pi Cookbook Prolific hacker and successful author Simon Monk helps you solve specific issues for using Raspberry Pi, the $35 system on a chip that’s taking the computer and electronics world by storm. This cookbook covers a wide range of topics from Linux and Python to sensors and displays....
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2. |  By: Maik Schmidt Publisher: dpunkt Publication Date: 14-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Raspberry Pi • Spannende neue Ecke: Physical Computing• Der neu entwickelte Raspberry Pi bietet für wenig Geld viele Bastellmöglichkeiten• deutsche Fassung wird um weitere Bastelkapitel ergänzt!...
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3. |  By: Matt Richardson; Shawn Wallace Publisher: O'Reilly Verlag Publication Date: 15-APR-2013 Insert Date: 31-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Raspberry Pi für Einsteiger Was können Sie mit dem Raspberry Pi machen – einem kreditkartengroßen Computer zum Preis von 35 Euro? Alles! Wenn Sie programmieren lernen oder neue Elektronikprojekte umsetzen möchten, wird Ihnen dieser praktische Ratgeber extrem nützlich sein. Dieses Buch führt Sie Schritt für Schritt durch die unterhaltsamen und lehrreichen Möglichkeiten der Mikrocontroller-Plattform Raspberry Pi. Greifen Sie auf vorinstallierte Programmiersprachen zurück. Nutzen Sie den Raspberry Pi zusammen mit dem Arduino. Erstellen Sie Projekte, die mit dem Internet verbunden sind. Geben Sie Multimedia-Dateien wieder....
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4. |  Getting Started with the MSP430 Launchpad By: Adrian Fernandez; Dung Dang Publisher: Newnes Publication Date: 19-APR-2013 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Getting Started with the MSP430 Launchpad
This book explores the world of microcontroller development through friendly lessons and progressively challenging projects, which will have you blink LEDs, make music with buzzers & interact with different sensors like accelerometers and temperature sensors. This book is focused on the MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad Evaluation Kit, which is a complete microcontroller development platform that includes everything you need to start creating microcontroller-based projects. Many of the 25+ projects will also leverage external components, such as the highly-integrated Educational BoosterPack, which...
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5. |  By: John Boxall Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 30-APR-2013 Insert Date: 02-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Arduino Workshop Arduino Workshop takes you through 65 electronics projects that show the full range of cool stuff you can do with Arduino....
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6. | Rough Cuts  Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects By: Mike Westerfield Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-SEP-2013 Insert Date: 12-APR-2013 | Overview: Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects Want to combine iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch sensors with external electronic gadgets? This hands-on book helps you build several projects, using these built-in magnetic, light, and proximity sensors with inexpensive boards such as Arduino and a Bluetooth Low Energy Shield....
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7. |  By: Mark Rollins Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 04-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: LEGO Technic Robotics
Building robots is a snap with LEGO Technic Robotics! This book shows you how to use LEGO bricks and Power Functions components such as motors and remote controls to create all kinds of robots. Best of all, you don't have to learn any programming. You just need your imagination and the expert building principles that you'll find inside LEGO Technic Robotics.
Author Mark Rollins teaches you the hows and whys of Technic project design. You're not just snapping pieces here and there; with LEGO Technic Robotics you're actively learning the fundamentals of good design so you can go on to...
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8. |  By: Alasdair Allan; Kipp Bradford Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Distributed Network Data Build your own distributed sensor network to collect, analyze, and visualize real-time data about our human environment—including noise level, temperature, and people flow. With this hands-on book, you’ll learn how to turn your project idea into working hardware, using the easy-to-learn Arduino microcontroller and off-the-shelf sensors....
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9. |  MSP430-based Robot Applications By: Dan Harres Publisher: Newnes Publication Date: 29-APR-2013 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: MSP430-based Robot Applications
This book provides a careful explanation of the basic areas of electronics and computer architecture, along with lots of examples, to demonstrate the interface, sensor design, programming and microcontroller peripheral setup necessary for embedded systems development. With no need for mechanical knowledge of robots, the book starts by demonstrating how to modify a simple radio-controlled car to create a basic robot. The fundamental electronics of the MSP430 are described, along with programming details in both C and assembly language, and full explanations of ports, timing, and data...
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10. |  Arduino Adventures: Escape from Gemini Station By: James Floyd Kelly; Harold Timmis Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 30-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Arduino Adventures: Escape from Gemini Station
Arduino Adventures: Escape from Gemini Station provides a fun introduction to the Arduino microcontroller by putting you (the reader) into the action of a science fiction adventure story. You'll find yourself following along as Cade and Elle explore Gemini Station—an orbiting museum dedicated to preserving and sharing technology throughout the centuries.
Trouble ensues. The station is evacuated, including Cade and Elle's class that was visiting the station on a field trip. Cade and Elle don't make it aboard their shuttle and are trapped on the station along with a friendly artificial...
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11. |  Das intelligente Haus – Heimautomation mit Arduino und Android und PC By: Mike Riley Publisher: O'Reilly Verlag Publication Date: 31-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 08-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Das intelligente Haus – Heimautomation mit Arduino und Android und PC Das intelligente Haus – Heimautomation mit Arduino, Android und PC zeigt Ihnen anhand von geekigen Projekten, wie Sie Ihr Haus bzw. Ihre Wohnung clever automatisieren. Geeks, Häuslebauer, Programmierer und Technikjünger lernen darin, wie sie die Hausbeleuchtung fernsteuern, Ihre Wohnung vor Einbruch schützen oder auch: wie sie eine twitternde Vogeltränke bauen....
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12. |  Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino By: Andrew K. Dennis; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 05-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 07-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino
Automate your home with a set of exciting projects for the Raspberry Pi
Learn how to dynamically adjust your living environment with detailed step-by-step examples
Discover how you can utilize the combined power of the Raspberry Pi and Arduino for your own projects
Revolutionize the way you interact with your home on a daily basis
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Low-cost and high-performing, with a massively diverse range of uses and applications, the Raspberry Pi is set to revolutionize the way we think about computing and programming. By combining the Raspberry Pi with an Arduino board...
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13. |  Sensing, Intelligence, Motion: How Robots and Humans Move in an Unstructured World By: Vladimir J. Lumelsky Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 04-NOV-2005 Insert Date: 28-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sensing, Intelligence, Motion: How Robots and Humans Move in an Unstructured World
A leap forward in the field of robotics
Until now, most of the advances in robotics have taken place in structured environments. Scientists and engineers have designed highly sophisticated robots, but most are still only able to operate and move in predetermined, planned environments designed specifically for the robots and typically at very high cost. This new book takes robotics to the next level by setting forth the theory and techniques needed to achieve robotic motion in unstructured environments. The ability to move and operate in an arbitrary, unplanned environment will lead to...
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14. |  By: James Floyd Kelly; Jonathan Daudelin Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 12-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 15-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: First LEGO League FIRST LEGO League: The Unofficial Guide is the go-to source for coaches, teachers, parents, and students participating in the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) competition. Written for both rookie and experienced teams, the book covers a variety of topics, including team formation and organization, robot building and programming, and the basics of getting involved with FLL....
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15. |  By: Peter Membrey; David Hows Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 21-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 07-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learn Raspberry Pi with Linux
Learn Raspberry Pi with Linux will tell you everything you need to know about the Raspberry Pi's GUI and command line so you can get started doing amazing things. You'll learn how to set up your new Raspberry Pi with a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and you'll discover that what may look unfamiliar in Linux is really very familiar. You'll find out how to connect to the internet, change your desktop settings, and you'll get a tour of installed applications.
Next, you'll take your first steps toward being a Raspberry Pi expert by learning how to get around at the Linux command line. You'll...
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16. |  Digital Design and Computer Architecture, 2nd Edition By: David David Harris; Sarah Sarah Harris Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 24-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 28-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Design and Computer Architecture, 2nd Edition
Digital Design and Computer Architecture takes a unique and modern approach to digital design. Beginning with digital logic gates and progressing to the design of combinational and sequential circuits, Harris and Harris use these fundamental building blocks as the basis for what follows: the design of an actual MIPS processor. SystemVerilog and VHDL are integrated throughout the text in examples illustrating the methods and techniques for CAD-based circuit design. By the end of this book, readers will be able to build their own microprocessor and will have a top-to-bottom understanding...
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17. |  Make: Lego and Arduino Projects By: John Baichtal; Matthew Beckler; Adam Wolf Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 30-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 28-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Make: Lego and Arduino Projects Make amazing robots and gadgets with two of today’s hottest DIY technologies. With this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll learn how to build devices with Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0, the Arduino prototyping platform, and some add-on components to bridge the two. Mindstorms alone lets you create incredible gadgets. Bring in Arduino for some jaw-dropping functionality—and open a whole new world of possibilities....
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18. |  Intelligent Wearable Interfaces By: Yangsheng Xu; Wen Jung Li; Ka Keung Lee Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Publication Date: 02-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 05-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Intelligent Wearable Interfaces
A thorough introduction to the development and applications of intelligent wearable interfaces
As mobile computing, sensing technology, and artificial intelligence become more advanced and their applications more widespread, the area of intelligent wearable interfaces is growing in importance. This emerging form of human-machine interaction has infinite possibilities for enhancing humans' capabilities in communications, actions, monitoring, and control.
Intelligent Wearable Interfaces is a collection of the efforts the authors have made in this area at The Chinese University of Hong...
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19. |  The LEGO Adventure Book, Vol. 1 By: Megan H. Rothrock Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 23-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 20-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The LEGO Adventure Book, Vol. 1 Whether you're brand new to LEGO or have been building for years, unleash your imagination with The LEGO Adventure Book! Learn to build robots, trains, medieval villages, and much more....
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20. |  By: Jack Streat Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 16-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 20-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: LEGO Heavy Weapons From LEGO guns mastermind and 18 year-old YouTube sensation Jack Streat comes LEGO Heavy Weapons, a collection of complete building instructions for four truly impressive, 1:1-scale replicas of the world's most iconic firearms....
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