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Create your own Arduino-based designs, gain in-depth knowledge of the architecture of Arduino, and learn the user-friendly Arduino language all in the context of practical projects that you can build yourself at home. Get hands-on experience using a variety of projects and recipes for everything from home automation to test equipment.

Arduino has taken off as an incredibly popular building block among ubicomp (ubiquitous computing) enthusiasts, robotics hobbyists, and DIY home automation developers. Authors Jonathan Oxer and Hugh Blemings provide detailed instructions for building a wide range of both practical and fun Arduino-related projects, covering areas such as hobbies, automotive, communications, home automation, and instrumentation.

• Take Arduino beyond “blink” to a wide variety of projects from simple to challenging
• Hands-on recipes for everything from home automation to interfacing with your car engine management system
• Explanations of techniques and references to handy resources for ubiquitous computing projects

Supplementary material includes a circuit schematic reference, introductions to a range of electronic engineering principles and general hints & tips. These combine with the projects themselves to make Practical Arduino: Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware an invaluable reference for Arduino users of all levels. You’ll learn a wide variety of techniques that can be applied to your own projects. Download Now »

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Step-by-step instructions with callouts to BlackBerry Curve photos that show you exactly what to do.
Help when you run into BlackBerry Curve problems or limitations.
Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your BlackBerry Curve.
Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your BlackBerry Curve working just the way you want. The tasks include:
* How to get started fast with any BlackBerry Curve: 8300 Series, 8500 Series, or 8900 Series
* How to make, receive, and manage calls and emails efficiently
* How to use the BlackBerry Curve’s powerful contact management and calendar software
* How to listen to audio and watch video
* How to connect to the Internet, Bluetooth devices, and your company’s VPN
* How to browse the Web from your BlackBerry Curve
* How to use the BlackBerry Curve’s messaging tools, including text, multimedia, PIN, and IM
* How to find, choose, and install new BlackBerry Curve applications
* How to connect with social networking sites and tools
* How to use Airplane Mode to watch videos, read emails, and listen to music during flights
* How to keep your BlackBerry Curve up-to-date, reliable, and running at top performance Download Now »

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Want to learn the fundamentals of electronics in a fun, hands-on way? With Make: Electronics, you’ll start working on real projects as soon as you crack open the book. Explore all of the key components and essential principles through a series of fascinating experiments. You’ll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them!

Build working devices, from simple to complex You’ll start with the basics and then move on to more complicated projects. Go from switching circuits to integrated circuits, and from simple alarms to programmable microcontrollers. Step-by-step instructions and more than 500 full-color photographs and illustrations will help you use — and understand — electronics concepts and techniques.

• Discover by breaking things: experiment with components and learn from failure
• Set up a tricked-out project space: make a work area at home, equipped with the tools and parts you’ll need
• Learn about key electronic components and their functions within a circuit
• Create an intrusion alarm, holiday lights, wearable electronic jewelry, audio processors, a reflex tester, and a combination lock
• Build an autonomous robot cart that can sense its environment and avoid obstacles Download Now »

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For 20 years, Upgrading and Repairing PCs has been the industry’s #1 guide to PC hardware: the single source for reliable, step-by-step information on identifying and fixing problems, adding hardware, optimizing performance, and building new PCs from scratch. Now, this 19th Edition has been completely updated to focus on today’s technologies and today’s maintenance challenges!

From processors and motherboards, memory to storage, video to power, and networking to Internet connectivity, it’s all here: technical details, practical insights, and step-by-step solutions to difficult problems. Updates include new CPUs like the Intel Core i Series and AMD’s Phenom family…solid state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives…motherboard form factors, chipsets, power supplies, DDR3 memory, Windows 7 readiness, and a whole lot more!

Your guide, Scott Mueller, has taught thousands in his legendary personal seminars and millions more through his books and videos. Nobody knows more about choosing, installing, troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining PC hardware. Whether you’re a professional technician, a small business owner who doesn’t want to pay for service calls, or a home PC enthusiast, this is the one book you need! Download Now »

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Welcome to the cloud for users, where the speed of Ubuntu and the ease of cloud applications unite. You can now speed up your netbook, connect to the world using 3G modems, or make calls using Skype with Ubuntu. You can even change your desktop altogether without having to worry about netbook screen real estate. Now, you will never have to worry about the lack of documentation for your netbook again.

• Install and configure Ubuntu on a netbook.
• Connect and secure Ubuntu on your netbook.
• Tune Ubuntu and cloud applications to run on your netbook.

What you’ll learn

• Install Ubuntu on a netbook.
• Connect to the Internet via 3G modems.
• Trick out Ubuntu with new applications.
• Work with multimedia.
• Optimize Ubuntu for your netbook. Download Now »

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With the new Shuffle, the Nano, the Classic, and the Touch, Apple’s gotten the world hooked on portable music, pictures, videos–and the iPod. One thing they haven’t delivered, though, is an easy guide for getting the most from this sleek entertainment center. Enter iPod: The Missing Manual, 8th Edition–a book as breathtaking, satisfying, and reliable as its subject.

In a handy, travel-friendly size, this new edition provides a no-nonsense view of iTunes and everything in the latest iPod line, with crystal-clear explanations, easy-to-follow color graphics, and guidance on all the amazing things you can do, including:

• Out of the box and into your ears. Find out how to install iTunes and load music on your iPod. And get advice on buying copy-protection-free songs from stores like Amazon and Rhapsody.
• Bopping around the iPod. Learn everything from turning it on and off to shaking your iPod Nano to shuffle your tracks.
• In tune with iTunes. Choose which parts of your iTunes library load onto your iPod, move your sacred iTunes Folder to a bigger hard drive, and add album covers to your collection.
• Picking playlists like a Genius. Let iTunes’ new Genius feature whip up smart playlists from your library, and suggest songs from the iTunes Store that fit with what you already own. Download Now »