microprocessors

By building their own custom PCs, video game fans can tweak every detail to make sure they get the best possible experience every time they play. In this book, readers will explore the long, fascinating history of PC gaming, from the earliest innovations to the latest developments. Includes table of contents, author biography, sidebars, glossary, index, and informative backmatter.

"Microcontrollers are small computers embedded in many everyday devices. The average person interacts with several of them each day without even thinking about it. But why have microcontrollers become so ubiquitous, in what devices are they found, and--most importantly--how does one go about making one? All this and more is explained in the engaging text. It will turn even the technologically illiterate into budding tech wizards"--Provided by the publisher.

Shows how LittleBits microcontrollers can be used to invent things that are powered by electricity.

Documents the influence of the microchip on human culture through a collection of color photographs taken by one hundred journalists around the world over the course of twenty-four hours in 1997.

Explores what silicon chips are, how they work, how they are designed and made, the different types of chips, and future development of chip technology.