Wow! eBook - Blog » Hardware http://www.wowebook.be Great ebook, great site! Wed, 23 May 2012 21:39:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer http://www.wowebook.be/book/getting-started-net-gadgeteer/ http://www.wowebook.be/book/getting-started-net-gadgeteer/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 16:18:37 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.be/?p=18876 Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer

Book Description

Learn quickly build cool gadgets with Gadgeteer. With the easy-to-follow instructions in this guide, you’ll tackle five fascinating projects, using ’s rapid prototyping Gadgeteer platform. There’s no soldering involved—you simply plug in modules that make gadget-building quick and easy.

Ideal for beginners, this book shows you work with modules and other hardware in the popular Fez Spider Starter Kit, and teaches you program your gadgets with # Express and the Micro Framework 4.1 SDK. You’ll soon learn a wide range of techniques along with the skills to design your own projects.

  • Get to know the software and hardware with a simple project
  • Download code from the companion site to build and test each project
  • Build a spy that automatically captures and saves images at regular intervals
  • Construct a simple animated with the joystick
  • Create a web server that sends messages you draw or write on the touchscreen
  • Build a gadget that backs up images from an SD card to a USB flash drive
  • Learn about other .NET Gadgeteer modules for creating environmental sensors, an MP3 player, and a network

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer
Chapter 2. Spy
Chapter 3. Snowflakes
Chapter 4. Web Messenger
Chapter 5. Camera Backup Gadget
Chapter 6. What Next?

Book Details

  • Paperback: 90 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (May 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449328237
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449328238
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Book Description

The first magazine devoted entirely to do-it-yourself technology projects presents its 30th quarterly edition for people who like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology.

Until recently, home automation was an unfulfilled promise — systems were gimmicky, finicky, user-hostile, or potentially unsecure. But today, thanks to a new crop of devices and technologies, home automation is useful, fun, and maker-friendly. Using smartphones, networks, the internet, simple microcontrollers, and even gesture recognition, -style Smart Homes can now do everything promised and more, for much less — and MAKE shows you how in Volume 30.

Table of Contents

  • Smarter Homes
  • Homemade Home Security
  • The Nag
  • Networked Smart Thermostat
  • Notify Me Now!
  • X10 Macro
  • 12,000-Mile Universal Remote
  • Keybanging
  • Home Smart Home

About the Author
Mark Frauenfelder is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles, and the editor of MAKE. He is the cofounder of the popular Boing Boing weblog and was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449314376
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449314378
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Book Description

Device drivers make it possible for your software to communicate with your hardware, and because every operating system has specific requirements, writing is nontrivial. When developing for , you’ve probably had to scour the Internet and dig through the kernel sources to figure out write the drivers you need. Thankfully, that stops now. In Device Drivers, Joseph Kong will teach you master everything from the basics of building and running loadable kernel modules to more complicated topics like thread synchronization. After a crash course in the different FreeBSD frameworks, extensive tutorial sections dissect real-world drivers like the port driver.

You’ll learn:

  • All about Newbus, the infrastructure used by FreeBSD to manage the hardware devices on your system
  • How to work with ISA, PCI, USB, and other buses
  • The best ways to control and communicate with the hardware devices from user space
  • How to use Direct Memory Access (DMA) for maximum system
  • The inner workings of the virtual null modem terminal driver, the USB driver, the Intel PCI Gigabit adapter driver, and other important drivers
  • How to use Common Access Method (CAM) to manage host bus adapters (HBAs)

Concise descriptions and extensive annotations walk you through the many code examples. Don’t waste time searching man pages or digging through the kernel sources to figure out how to make that arcane bit of hardware work with your system. FreeBSD Device Drivers gives you the framework that you need to write any driver you want, now.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Building and Running Modules
Chapter 2. Allocating Memory
Chapter 3. Device Communication and Control
Chapter 4. Thread Synchronization
Chapter 5. Delaying Execution
Chapter 6. Case Study: Virtual Null Modem
Chapter 7. Newbus and Resource Allocation
Chapter 8. Interrupt Handling
Chapter 9. Case Study: Port Printer Driver
Chapter 10. Managing and Using Resources
Chapter 11. Case Study: Intelligent Platform Interface Driver
Chapter 12. Direct Memory Access
Chapter 13. Storage Drivers
Chapter 14. Common Access Method
Chapter 15. USB Drivers
Chapter 16. Network Drivers, Part 1: Data Structures
Chapter 17. Network Drivers, Part 2: Packet Reception and Transmission

Book Details

  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593272049
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593272043
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]]> http://www.wowebook.be/book/freebsd-device-drivers/feed/ 0 Arduino and Kinect Projects http://www.wowebook.be/book/arduino-and-kinect-projects/ http://www.wowebook.be/book/arduino-and-kinect-projects/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 16:20:40 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.be/?p=18740 Arduino and Kinect Projects

Book Description

If you’ve done some tinkering and wondered how you could incorporate the —or the other way around—then this book is for you. The authors of and Projects will show you create 10 amazing, creative projects, from simple to complex. You’ll also find out incorporate Processing in your design—a language very similar to the Arduino language.

The ten projects are carefully designed to build on your skills at every step. Starting with the Arduino and Kinect equivalent of “Hello, World,” the authors will take you through a diverse range of projects that showcase the huge range of possibilities that open up when Kinect and Arduino are combined.

  • Gesture-based Remote Control. Control devices and home appliances with hand gestures.
  • Kinect-networked Puppet. Play with a physical puppet remotely using your whole body.
  • Mood Lamps. Build your own set of responsive, gesture controllable lamps.
  • Drawing . Control a drawing using a Kinect-based tangible table.
  • Remote-controlled Vehicle. Use your body gestures to control a smart vehicle.
  • Biometric Station. Use the Kinect for biometric recognition and checking Body Mass Indexes.
  • Modeling Interface. Learn use the Arduino LilyPad to build a wearable modelling interface.
  • 360º Scanner. Build a turntable scanner and scan any object 360º using only one Kinect.
  • Delta . Build and control your own fast and accurate .

What you’ll learn

  • Arduino and Kinect basics
  • Interfacing Kinect and Arduino through Processing
  • Communicating: Serial and communication over networks
  • Interacting with the physical world: Sensors and actuators
  • Volumetric Scanning
  • Step-by-step instructions on a variety of Arduino/Kinect projects

Who this book is for
Intermediate to experienced gadget hackers who want to learn how to combine Arduino with Kinect, or who want inspiration for innovation.

Table of Contents

  1. Arduino Basics
  2. Kinect Basics
  3. Interfacing Arduino and Kinect through Processing
  4. Hello World: -me
  5. Gesture-based Remote Control
  6. Kinect-networked Puppet
  7. Mood Lamps
  8. Drawing Robot
  9. Remote-controlled Vehicles
  10. Biometric Station
  11. Modeling Interface
  12. 360º Scanner
  13. Delta Robot

Book Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430241675
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430241676
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Book Description

The emergence of the and modern, fast corporate networks demands that you perform judicious balancing of computational loads. Practical presents an entire analytical framework to increase not just of one machine, but of your entire infrastructure.

Practical starts by introducing key concepts and the tools you’ll need to tackle your load-balancing issues. You’ll travel through the IP layers and learn how they can create increased network traffic for you. You’ll see  account for persistence and state, and how you can judge the of scheduling algorithms.

You’ll then learn avoid performance degradation and any risk of the sudden disappearance of a service on a server. If you’re concerned with running your load balancer for an entire network, you’ll find out set up your network topography, and condense each topographical variety into recipes that will serve you in different situations. You’ll also learn about individual servers, and load balancers that can perform cookie insertion or improve your SSL throughput.

You’ll also explore load balancing in the modern context of the . While load balancers need to be configured for high availability once the conditions on the network have been created, modern load balancing has found its way into the , where good balancing is vital for the very functioning of the , and where is becoming ever more important.

You can read Practical Load Balancing from end to end or out of sequence, and indeed, if there are individual topics that interest you, you can pick up this book and work through it once you have read the first three chapters.

What you’ll learn

  • Judge network load balancing algorithms and when to use them
  • Plan your network for optimal load balancing performance
  • Configure single servers to take advantage of modern load balancing software
  • Learning to use load balancing software like HAproxy, STunnel etc.
  • Become familiar with implications of and the cloud
  • Improve SSL throughput and seamless application cookie insertion

Who this book is for
Network engineers, developers and IT managers.

Table of Contents
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. How websites work: what makes them slow
Chapter 3. Content Caching: keeping the load light
Chapter 4. DNS based load balancing
Chapter 5. Content Delivery Networks
Chapter 6. Planning for Performance and Reliability

Part II: Load Balancing Essentials
Chapter 7. Essential concepts you need to know
Chapter 8. HTTP load balancing
Chapter 9. Database load balancing
Chapter 10. Load balancing your network connection
Chapter 11. SSL Load Balancing

Part III: Load balancing situations
Chapter 12. Clustering the Load Balancers for High Availability
Chapter 13. Load balancing in the cloud
Chapter 14. IPv6: Implications and concepts
Chapter 15. Where to go next…

Appendix. Common Terms and Concepts

Book Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430236809
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430236801
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Book Description

Hacking the is the technogeek’s guide to developing software and creating projects involving the groundbreaking volumetric sensor known as the . ’s release of the Kinect in the fall of 2010 startled the technology world by providing a low-cost sensor that can detect and track body movement in three-dimensional space. The Kinect set new records for the fastest-selling gadget of all time. It has been adopted worldwide by hobbyists, robotics enthusiasts, artists, and even some entrepreneurs hoping to build business around the technology.

Hacking the Kinect introduces you to for the Kinect. You’ll learn to set up a software environment, stream data from the Kinect, and write code to interpret that data. The progression of hands-on projects in the book leads you even deeper into an understanding of how the device functions and how you can apply it to create fun and educational projects. Who knows? You might even come up with a business idea.

  • Provides an excellent source of fun and educational projects for a tech-savvy parent to pursue with a son or daughter
  • Leads you progressively from making your very first connection to the Kinect through mastery of its full feature set
  • Shows interpret the Kinect data stream in order to drive your own software and hardware applications, including robotics applications

What you’ll learn

  • create a software environment and connect to the Kinect from your
  • How to create three-dimensional images from the Kinect data stream
  • How to recognize and work around hardware limitations
  • How to build computer interfaces in the style of “Minority Report”
  • How to interact directly with objects in the virtual world
  • The ins and outs of point clouds, voxel occupancy maps, depth images, and other fundamentals of volumetric sensor technology

Who this book is for
Hacking the Kinect is aimed at makers of all types. Tech-savvy artists can use the Kinect to drive three-dimensional, interactive artwork. Robotics hobbyists can create robots capable of “seeing” and responding to human and gesture. Programmers can create applications in which users manipulate data through physical and gestures. The creative possibilities are limitless, and fun!

Hacking the Kinect does require some background. Familiarity with in ++ or similar languages is assumed. Readers should also be reasonably comfortable working with electronics—for example, with  or similar equipment.

Table of Contents

  1. Introducing the Kinect
  2. Hardware
  3. Software
  5. Gesture Recognition
  6. Voxelization
  7. Introducing Point Clouds
  8. Enhancing Our Point Clouds
  9. Object Modeling and Detection
  10. Multiple Kinects

Book Details

  • Paperback: 268 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430238674
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430238676
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]]> http://www.wowebook.be/book/hacking-the-kinect/feed/ 1 Beginning Android ADK with Arduino http://www.wowebook.be/book/beginning-android-adk-with-arduino/ http://www.wowebook.be/book/beginning-android-adk-with-arduino/#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:28:32 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.be/?p=18422 Beginning Android ADK with Arduino

Book Description

Whether you’re new to and , or you’ve tinkered a bit with either one, this is the book for you. has always been a natural fit with projects, but now that has released the Android Open Accessory Kit (the Android ADK), combining Android with to create custom gadgets has become even easier.

Beginning Android ADK with shows how the ADK works and how it can be used with a variety of Arduino boards to create a variety of fun projects that showcase the abilities of the ADK.

Mario Böhmer will walk you through several projects, including making sounds, driving motors, and creating alarm systems, all while explaining use the ADK and how standard Arduino boards may differ from -branded Arduinos. You aren’t tied to specific hardware with this book; use what you have, and this book will show you how.

What you’ll learn

  • How different boards work with the ADK
  • create your first sketch and
  • How to work with light and sound
  • How to work with servos and DC motors
  • How to work with photoresistors and thermistors to sense the environment
  • How to make your own capacitive touch show buzzer
  • How to create your own -enabled alarm system

Who this book is for
This book is for beginning Arduino and Android enthusiasts, or Arduino developers who want to try out the new Android ADK.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Andriod and Arduino: Getting to Know Each Other
  3. Outputs
  4. Inputs
  5. Sounds
  6. Light Intensity Sensing
  7. Temperature Sensing
  8. A Sense of Touch
  9. Making Things Move
  10. Alarm System

Book Details

  • Paperback: 316 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430241977
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430241973
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Book Description

In Your Home, technology enthusiast Mike Riley walks you through a variety of custom home automation projects, ranging from a phone application that alerts you to package deliveries at your front door to an guard dog that will prevent unwanted visitors.

Open locked doors using your smartphone. Assemble a bird feeder that posts Twitter tweets to tell you when the birds are feeding or when bird seed runs low. Have your home speak to you when you receive email, notify you when visitors arrive, and more.

You’ll learn use smartphones, Arduinos, X10 controllers and a wide array of sensors, servos, languages, web frameworks, and SDKs. Programming Your Home is written for smartphone programmers, web developers, technology tinkerers, and anyone who enjoys building cutting-edge, do-it-yourself projects.

This book will give you the inspiration and understanding to construct amazing automation capabilities that will transform your residence into the smartest home in your neighborhood!

What you need
To get the most out of Programming Your Home, you should have some familiarity with the hardware platform along with a passion for tinkering. You should enjoy innovative thinking and learning exercises as well as have some practical application experience. The projects use a variety of hardware components including sensors and actuators, devices, and radios, and we’ll even tell you where you can get them.

Table of Contents
Part I: Preparations
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Requirements

Part II: Projects
Chapter 3. Water Level Notifier
Chapter 4. Electric Guard Dog
Chapter 5. Tweeting Bird Feeder
Chapter 6. Package Delivery Detector
Chapter 7. Web-Enabled Light Switch
Chapter 8. Curtain Automation
Chapter 9. Door Lock
Chapter 10. Giving Your Home a Voice

Part III: Predictions
Chapter 11. Future Designs
Chapter 12. More Ideas

Part IV: Appendices
Appendix 1. Installing Libraries
Appendix 2. Bibliography

Book Details

  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (February 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1934356905
  • ISBN-13: 978-1934356906
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Book Description

Create your own devices with the popular (“yoyo”) board, and control them with your phone or tablet. With this concise guide, you’ll get started by building four example projects—after that, the possibilities for making your own fun and creative accessories with and are endless.

To build / devices, you write the program on your computer, transfer it to your Android, and then communicate with the via a USB or connection. The board translates the program into action. This book provides the source code and step-by-step instructions you need to build the example projects. All you have to supply is the hardware.

  • Learn your way around the IOIO and discover how it interacts with your Android
  • Build an intruder alarm that sends a text message when it detects movement
  • Make a temperature sensing device that logs readings on your Android
  • Create a multicolor matrix that displays a Space Invader
  • Build an IOIO-powered surveillance rover that you control with your Android
  • Get the software and hardware requirements for creating your own Android/IOIO accessories

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting Started with IOIO
Chapter 2. Intruder Alarm
Chapter 3. Temperature Logger
Chapter 4. Matrix Light Show
Chapter 5. Surveillance Rover

Book Details

  • Paperback: 70 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (February 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449323286
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449323288
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Book Description

Start building electronics projects with , the popular hardware platform that’s captured the imagination of makers and hobbyists worldwide. This easy-to-follow book provides the step-by-step guidance you need to experiment with and the Micro Framework.

Through a set of simple projects, you’ll learn create gadgets—including networked devices that communicate over . Along the way, hobbyists will pick up the basics of , and programmers will discover work with electronics and microcontrollers. Follow the projects in sequence and learn techniques for building your own -based devices.

  • Get an overview of the Netduino microcontroller family
  • Install the free Express, .NET Micro Framework, and Netduino SDK
  • Write code that lets you turn Netduino’s on and off
  • Learn how to increase Netduino’s capabilities with various expansion shields
  • Measure and analog inputs with MakerShield
  • Make a light appear dimmer or brighter with Pulse Width Modulation
  • Use electrical pulses to play a song and control the position of a servo motor
  • Create an app to control your Netduino over the Web

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introducing Netduino
Chapter 2. Setting up the Free Tools
Chapter 3. First Projects
Chapter 4. Expansion Shields and Components
Chapter 5. and Analog IO with the MakerShield
Chapter 6. Breadboards and LEDs
Chapter 7. Sound and
Chapter 8. Connecting to the Internet

Appendix. Upgrading Firmware
Appendix. Developing Netduino Apps with Mono

Book Details

  • Paperback: 100 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (February 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449302459
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449302450
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Book Description

Beginning with the SDK gets you up and running developing Kinect applications for your using tools and the official SDK. You will have a working Kinect program by the end of the first chapter! The following chapters will open up the secrets of three-dimensional vision, skeleton tracking, through the Kinect, and more. Examples illustrate the concepts in the form of simple games that react to your body movements. The result is a fun read that helps you learn one of the hottest technologies out there today.

Beginning Kinect with the Microsoft Kinect SDKalso provides building blocks and ideas for mashing up the Kinect with other technologies to create art, interactive games, models and enhanced office automation. You’ll learn the fundamental code basic to almost all Kinect applications. You’ll learn to integrate that code with other tools and manipulate data to create amazing Kinect applications. Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK is your gateway into the exciting world of three-dimensional, computer interaction.

  • Helps you create a proper environment for Kinect applications.
  • Covers the basics of three-dimensional vision, skeleton tracking, gesture recognition, and
  • Provides fun examples that keep you engaged and learning

What you’ll learn

  • Create a proper environment
  • Work with data streams from the Kinect sensor
  • Use skeleton-tracking for interactive applications
  • Build speech-aware applications
  • Develop simple, Kinect-based games for the
  • Learn the underlying math involved in three-dimensional programming

Who this book is for
Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK is for Microsoft developers who want to learn to program for the newest and coolest Microsoft input device. The book assumes familiarity, but not expertise, with and #. Developers will be able to use their current knowledge and experience with the Microsoft stack to build new types of applications that have never been possible before. Most of all, this book is for developers who want to go beyond simply creating data-entry applications and recapture the fun of creating software.

Table of Contents

  1. Getting Started with Kinect
  2. Application Fundamentals
  3. Depth Image Processing
  4. Kinect Skeletons
  5. Advanced Skeleton Tracking
  6. Kinect Gestures
  7. Speech
  8. Beyond the Basics

Book Details

  • Paperback: 324 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (March 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430241047
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430241041
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Book Description

Meet the introduces the exciting world of volumetric computing using the . You’ll learn to write scripts and software enabling the use of the as an input device. Interact directly with your computer through physical . The will read and track body movements, and is the bridge between the physical reality in which you exist and the virtual world created by your software.

’s Kinect was released in fall 2010 to become the fastest-selling device ever. For the first time, we have an inexpensive, three-dimensional sensor enabling direct interaction between human and computer, between the physical world and the virtual. The Kinect has been enthusiastically adopted by a growing culture of enthusiasts, who put it to work in creating technology-based art projects, three-dimensional scanners, adaptive devices for sight-impaired individuals, new ways of interacting with PCs, and even profitable business opportunities.

Meet the Kinect is the resource to get you started in mastering the Kinect and the exciting possibilities it brings. You’ll learn about the Kinect hardware and what it can do. You’ll install drivers and learn to download and run the growing amount of Kinect software freely available on the Internet. From there, you’ll move into writing code using some of the more popular frameworks and APIs, including the official Microsoft API and the language known as Processing that is popular in the art and creative world.

Along the way, you’ll learn principles and terminology. Volumetric computing didn’t begin with the Kinect. The field is decades old—if you’ve ever had an MRI, for example, you have benefitted from volumetric computing technology. Meet the Kinect goes beyond just the one device to impart the principles and terminology underlying the exciting field of volumetric computing that is now wide-open and accessible to the average person.

What you’ll learn

  • Install drivers to connect your Kinect to your , whether running or Mac OSX
  • Download and run the growing body of software freely available via the Internet
  • Write scripts in the popular Processing language
  • Take advantage of Microsoft’s Kinect SDK for
  • Choose a software environment that suits your needs
  • Grasp principles and terminology underlying the Kinect technology

Who this book is for
Meet the Kinect is aimed at technology enthusiasts, including programmers, artists, and entrepreneurs who are fascinated by the possibilities arising from the direct, human-computer interaction enabled by the Microsoft Kinect. The book is for anyone who wants to take advantage of the growing body of software for the Kinect, and for those who wish to write their own programs and scripts involving the Kinect as an input device.

Table of Contents

  1. Getting Started
  2. Behind the Technology
  3. Applications in the Wild
  4. Scripting the Kinect
  5. Many Ways to Kinect
  6. Application with PrimeSense’s NITE Framework
  7. Application Development with the Beckon Framework
  8. Application Development with Microsoft’s Windows/ Framework
  9. Volumetric Display Techniques
  10. Where to Go From Here?

Book Details

  • Paperback: 220 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430238887
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430238881
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Book Description

Techniques for Optimizing Multiprocessor Implementations of Signal Processing Applications

An indispensable component of the information age, signal processing is embedded in a variety of consumer devices, including cell phones and television, as well as in communication infrastructure, such as media servers and cellular base stations. Multiple programmable processors, along with custom hardware running in , are needed to achieve the computation throughput required of such applications.

Reviews important research in key areas related to the multiprocessor implementation of multimedia systems
Embedded Multiprocessors: Scheduling and Synchronization, Second Edition presents architectures and design methodologies for systems in embedded signal processing (DSP) applications. It discusses application modeling techniques for multimedia systems, the incorporation of interprocessor communication costs into multiprocessor scheduling decisions, and a modeling methodology (the synchronization graph) for multiprocessor system analysis. The book also applies the synchronization graph model to develop hardware and software optimizations that can significantly reduce the interprocessor communication overhead of a given schedule.

Chronicles recent activity dealing with single-chip multiprocessors and dataflow models
This edition updates the background material on existing embedded multiprocessors, including single-chip multiprocessors. It also summarizes the new research on dataflow models for signal processing that has been carried out since the publication of the first edition.

Harness the power of multiprocessors
This book explores the of interprocessor communication and synchronization in embedded multiprocessor systems. It shows you design multiprocessor computer systems that are streamlined for multimedia applications.

Features

  • Focuses on multiprocessor implementations of signal processing applications specified as dataflow graphs
  • Describes unique techniques for optimizing communication and synchronization
  • Integrates arbitrary scheduling strategies with alternative algorithms to address specific subproblems associated with implementing a given schedule
  • Provides several examples of practical applications that demonstrate the relevance of the techniques described

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 380 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press; 2nd Edition (February 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1420048015
  • ISBN-13: 978-1420048018
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Book Description

Processors and Memories addresses the-state-of-the-art in integrated circuit design in the context of emerging computing systems. New design opportunities in memories and are discussed. Emerging materials that can take system beyond standard , like carbon nanotubes, graphene, ferroelectrics and tunnel junctions are explored.

CMOS Processors and Memories is divided into two parts: processors and memories. In the first part we start with high , low power design, followed by a chapter on processing. They both represent state-of-the-art concepts in current computing industry. The third chapter deals with asynchronous design that still carries lots of promise for future computing needs. At the end we present a “hardware design space exploration” methodology for implementing and analyzing the hardware for the Bayesian inference framework. This particular methodology involves: analyzing the computational cost and exploring candidate hardware components, proposing various custom architectures using both traditional CMOS and hybrid nanotechnology CMOL. The first part concludes with hybrid CMOS-Nano architectures.

The second, memory part covers state-of-the-art SRAM, DRAM, and flash memories as well as emerging device concepts. Semiconductor memory is a good example of the full custom design that applies various analog and logic circuits to utilize the memory cell’s device physics. Critical physical effects that include tunneling, hot electron injection, charge trapping (Flash memory) are discussed in detail. Emerging memories like FRAM, PRAM and ReRAM that depend on magnetization, electron spin alignment, ferroelectric effect, built-in potential well, quantum effects, and thermal melting are also described.

CMOS Processors and Memories is a must for anyone serious about circuit design for future computing technologies. The book is written by top notch international experts in industry and academia. It can be used in graduate course curriculum.

  • The only book on the market that covers advanced circuits for emerging technologies beyond standard CMOS circuit books
  • Written by a mixture of top industrial experts and key academic professors. Practical enough to understand how these technologies work, but not a product manual. enough but not pure academic theory from the ivory tower
  • Exploits potential behind new materials (SOI, SiGe, strained Si) that might carry circuit performance beyond standard bulk CMOS technology

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 386 pages
  • Publisher: Springer (August 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9048192153
  • ISBN-13: 978-9048192151
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Book Description

Want to build your own satellite and launch it into space? It’s easier than you may think. The first in a series of four books, this do-it-yourself guide shows you the essential steps needed to design a base picosatellite platform—complete with a solar-powered computer-controlled assembly—tough enough to withstand a rocket launch and survive in orbit for three months.

Whether you want to conduct experiments, run engineering tests, or present an orbital art , you’ll select basic components such as an antenna, radio transmitter, solar cells, battery, power bus, , sensors, and an extremely small picosatellite chassis. This entertaining series takes you through the entire process—from planning to launch.

  • and fabricate printed circuit boards to handle your payload
  • Choose a prefab satellite kit, complete with solar cells, power system, and on-board computer
  • Calculate your power budget—how much you need vs. what the solar cells collect
  • Select between the or BasicX-24 onboard processors, and determine use the radio transmitter and sensors
  • Learn your launch options, including the providers and cost required
  • Use milestones to keep your schedule in

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Overview
Chapter 2. PCB Fab, Soldering, and Electronics
Chapter 3. Chassis, Structure, and Gross Anatomy
Chapter 4. Power
Chapter 5. and Coding
Chapter 6. Launching and Rockets
Chapter 7. Milestones and Planning

Book Details

  • Paperback: 84 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449310605
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449310608
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Book Description

This detailed, hands-on guide provides the technical and conceptual information you need to build cool applications with ’s , the amazing -sensing device that enables computers to see. Through half a dozen meaty projects, you’ll learn create gestural interfaces for software, use capture for easy character , scanning for custom fabrication, and many other applications.

Perfect for hobbyists, makers, artists, and gamers, Making Things See shows you build every with inexpensive off-the-shelf components, including the Processing language and the microcontroller. You’ll learn basic skills that will enable you to pursue your own creative applications with .

  • Create Kinect applications on Mac OS X, , or Linux
  • Track people with pose detection and skeletonization, and use blob tracking to detect objects
  • Analyze and manipulate point clouds
  • Make models for design and fabrication, using scanning technology
  • Use MakerBot, RepRap, or Shapeways to print 3D objects
  • Delve into tracking for and games
  • Build a simple arm that can imitate your arm movements
  • Discover how skilled artists have used Kinect to build fascinating projects

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. What Is the Kinect?
Chapter 2. Working with the Depth Image
Chapter 3. Working with Point Clouds
Chapter 4. Working with the Skeleton Data
Chapter 5. Scanning for Fabrication
Chapter 6. Using the Kinect for Robotics
Chapter 7. Conclusion: What’s Next?

Book Details

  • Paperback: 440 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449307078
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449307073
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Book Description

After the devastating tsunami in 2011, DYIers in Japan built their own devices to detect radiation levels, then posted their finding on the Internet. Right now, thousands of people worldwide are tracking environmental conditions with monitoring devices they’ve built themselves. You can do it too!

This inspiring guide shows you use to create gadgets for measuring noise, weather, electromagnetic interference (EMI), water purity, and more. You’ll also learn collect and share your own data, and you can experiment by creating your own variations of the gadgets covered in the book. If you’re new to electronics, the first chapter offers a primer on circuits and .

  • Use a special microphone and amplifier to build a reliable noise
  • Create a gadget to detect energy vampires: devices that use electricity when they’re “off”
  • Examine water purity with a water conductivity device
  • Measure weather basics such as temperature, humidity, and dew point
  • Build your own Geiger counter to gauge background radiation
  • Extend Arduino with an shield—and put your data on the Internet
  • Share your weather and radiation data online through Pachube

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The World’s Shortest Electronics Primer
Chapter 2. : Noise / Bar Output
Chapter 3. New Component: 4Char Display
Chapter 4. Detecting Electromagnetic Interference (and making bad music)
Chapter 5. : Water Conductivity/Numerical Output
Chapter 6. New Component: Shield
Chapter 7. Project: Humidity, Temperature & Dew Point/4Char Display
Chapter 8. , -Tagged Data Sharing with Pachube
Chapter 9. Project: Radiation Counter/Sharing Data on the Internet
Chapter 10. Casing the Gadget

Book Details

  • Paperback: 98 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (January 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449310567
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449310561
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Book Description

Join today’s new revolution in creativity and community: hackerspaces. Stop letting other people build everything for you: Do it yourself. Explore, grab the tools, get hands-on, get dirty…and create things you never imagined you could. Hack This is your glorious, full-color passport to the world of hackerspaces: your invitation to share knowledge, master tools, work together, build amazing stuff–and have a flat-out blast doing it.

Twin Cities Maker co-founder John Baichtal explains it all: what hackerspaces are, how they work, who runs them, what they’re building—and how you can join (or start!) one. Next, he walks you through 24 of today’s best hackerspace projects…everything from robotic grilled-cheese sandwich-makers to devices that make music with zaps of electricity. Every ’s packed with color photos, explanations, lists of resources and tools, and instructions for getting started on your own similar so you can !

JUST SOME OF THE PROJECTS YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT INCLUDE…

  • Kung-fu fighting robots
  • Home-brewed Geiger counter
  • TransAtlantic balloon
  • Twitter-monitoring Christmas tree
  • Sandwich-making
  • Interactive Space Invaders mural
  • CNC mill that carves designs into wood, plastic and metal
  • Telepresence that runs an Internet classroom
  • Toy cars that are ridden by people
  • Bronze-melting blast furnace
  • Laptop-controlled robot fashioned from a wheelchair
  • book scanner

JOHN BAICHTAL is a founding member of Twin Cities Maker, a hackerspace organization that has been collaborating for almost two years. Based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, Twin  ities Maker has its own rented warehouse complete with a welding station, woodshop, classroom, and ham radio transmitter. Baichtal has written dozens of articles, including pieces for AKE, the D&D publication Kobold Quarterly, and 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. He has contributed to Wired.com’s GeekDad blog for four years and blogged at Make: Online for two, publishing more than 1,500 posts during that time. He is now writing a book about .

Book Details

  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Que (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789748975
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789748973
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Book Description

OS X and Kernel combines essential operating system and kernel architecture knowledge with a highly practical approach that will help you write effective kernel-level code. You’ll learn fundamental concepts such as memory management and thread synchronization, as well as the I/O Kit framework. You’ll also learn write your own kernel-level extensions, such as device drivers for USB and Thunderbolt devices, including , storage and drivers.

OS X and Kernel provides an incisive and complete introduction to the XNU kernel, which runs iPhones, iPads, iPods, and servers and clients. Then, you’ll expand your horizons to examine and iOS system architecture. Understanding Apple’s operating systems will allow you to write efficient device drivers, such as those covered in the book, using I/O Kit.

With OS X and iOS Kernel Programming, you’ll:

  • Discover classical kernel architecture topics such as memory management and thread synchronization
  • Become well-versed in the intricacies of the kernel process by applying kernel debugging and profiling tools
  • Learn deploy your kernel-level projects and successfully package them
  • Write code that interacts with hardware devices
  • Examine easy to understand example code that can also be used in your own projects
  • Create network filters

Whether you’re a hobbyist, student, or professional engineer, turn to OS X andiOS Kernel Programming and find the knowledge you need to start developing

What you’ll learn

  • OS X and iOS common core architecture
  • How to write extremely efficient code by exploiting kernel details
  • Coding kernel-level extensions
  • How to write device drivers
  • How to program the I/O Kit framework
  • Key device topics like power management drivers and video capture modules
  • To understand OS X memory management and threads
  • To parse kernel debug messages and package projects ready for deployment

Who this book is for
This book is suited for:

  • Intermediate and advanced and OS X programmers ready for the next step
  • Kernel-level programmers interested in how OS X and iOS function
  • Open source programmers with a background in  or BSD, OS X and iOS
  • Programmers interested in application performance
  • System administrators running OS X clusters

Table of Contents

  1. Operating System Fundamentals
  2. and iOS
  3. Xcode and the Kernel Environment
  4. The I/O Kit Framework
  5. Interacting with Drivers from Applications
  6. Memory Management
  7. Synchronisation and Threading
  8. USB Drivers
  9. PCI and Thunderbolt
  10. Power Management
  11. Serial Port Drivers
  12. Core
  13. Network Drivers
  14. Storage Drivers and Filesystems
  15. User-Space Drivers
  16. Debugging and Profiling
  17. Advanced Kernel Programming
  18. Deployment

Book Details

  • Paperback: 484 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430235365
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430235361
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Book Description

Congratulations! You’re on Mars Base Alpha, the first human outpost on the red planet. Don’t relax, though. It’s not all roses and unicorns up here. Mars isn’t called “The Bringer of War” for nothing! You’ve just been rained on by a meteor shower and it’s up to you—you!—to put your MINDSTORMS NXT robotics skills to work to save the day, and the base! And that’s only the beginning of the challenges that lie ahead.

MINDSTORMS NXT: Mars Base is a book of challenge. It’s about challenging yourself to design and build robots to solve problems, tough problems. Taking a similar approach to best-selling LEGO author James Kelly’s other books, this book presents a series of four challenges in the setting of mankind’s first-ever manned base on the planet Mars. Each challenge begins with a backstory to set the scene. You’re given instructions for constructing a playing field, including devices that your eventual must manipulate. Your job is to build a that will execute the challenge and garner you the most points.

The book requires the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education Resource Set. Scoring sheets are included that allow for the book’s use in educational and group settings. Teachers can base lesson plans around the different concepts taught in each challenge. Groups and clubs can choose to run mini-competitions in which teams or individuals compete against each other in a race to save the base. LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: Mars Base is an excellent choice for an individual, a group, or a teacher wishing to learn about and have more fun with LEGO’s best-selling robotics platform.

What you’ll learn

  • build and test robots using LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT
  • develop problem-solving techniques as you set up and conquer the challenges in the book
  • How to organize and host a challenge at your school or between friends
  • About challenges we might face as humans move beyond Earth
  • To work as a team to brainstorm solutions to tough problems
  • To grow in your ability to make decisions when faced with multiple solutions

Who this book is for
LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: Mars Base Command is written for individuals, clubs, and teachers who want to have fun with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT while learning more about robotics and problem-solving. The book is an excellent choice for individuals who own the kit and are slightly bored with it. The Mars Base storyline and ensuing challenges cure that boredom. Teachers and club leaders will appreciate the book for its problem-solving and teamwork applications.

Table of Contents

  1. Plan B
  2. The Power Interrupt Device
  3. The Power Redirect
  4. The Solar Collector
  5. Synopsys and Rules: Plan B Challenge
  6. Storm Front
  7. The Lander Mark VII: Part I
  8. The Lander Mark VII: Part II
  9. Synopsys and Rules: Storm Front Challenge
  10. Internal Medicine
  11. Commander Evan’s Hand: Part I
  12. Commander Evan’s Hand: Part II

Book Details

  • Paperback: 364 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (December 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430238046
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430238041
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