microcontrollers

"Makey Makey is a kit that helps you turn everyday objects into touchpads that control your computer's keyboard. With this book, students learn the art of innovation through detailed explanations and hands-on activities built to foster creativity and problem solving. Fun, engaging text introduces readers to new ideas and builds on maker-related concepts they may already know. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the history of microcontrollers and shares a selection of projects that use littleBits and Arduino to demonstrate their inner workings and capabilities.

"Makey Makey is a kit that helps you turn everyday objects into touchpads that control your computer's keyboard. With this book, students learn the art of innovation through detailed explanations and hands-on activities built to foster creativity and problem solving. Fun, engaging text introduces readers to new ideas and builds on maker-related concepts they may already know. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information."--.

Text and illustrations look at Arduino microcontroller programming and includes three projects.

The Maker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is the manual you need to survive in the land of the walking dead. In this guide, expert hardware hacker and zombie aficionado Simon Monk starts by teaching you to generate electricity with solar and pedal power. From there, you'll craft essential electronic survival tools from scavenged components, an Arduino, and a Raspberry Pi.

Provides step-by-step instructions, schematics, and construction details for building and programming projects with the Arduino microcontroller.

Create Android-controlled Arduino devices. Follow along with step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations. Learn to use the Android Open Accessory Development Kit. -- from cover.