Maker Media Inc: 119 books
DIY Instruments for Amateur Space
Inventing Utility for Your Spacecraft Once It Achieves Orbit
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
What can you measure and what are your limits when orbiting in space? Learn about what physical quantities you can measure and what types of sensors you can buy or build. We cover the 5 essential design limits as well: power, bandwidth, resolution, computing... and legal limitations. Explore what you can play with using your own personal satellite.
DIY Comms and Control for Amateur Space
Talking and Listening to Your Satellite
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Radio spectrum for commanding and recording from our satellites is a shared resource with subtle hurdles. We walk the path originally paved by AMSATs to discuss the steps and licensing needed to set up and operate both a command uplink and a data download station and network. Find out how playing nicely with others maximizes your ability to get your data down.
Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express
The Multipurpose Learning and Development Board with Built-In LEDs, Sensors, and Accelerometer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
From Adafruit Industries, a leader in products to Makers, designers, students young and old, comes the Circuit Playground Express. Connect it to your PC/Mac/Linux device, and you can be programming interactive projects in minutes. You have a choice of programming environments to choose from: Python,...
Make: FPGAs
Turning Software into Hardware with Eight Fun and Easy DIY Projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
What if you could use software to design hardware? Not just any hardware--imagine specifying the behavior of a complex parallel computer, sending it to a chip, and having it run on that chip--all without any manufacturing? With Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), you can design such a machine...
by Gordon McComb
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Learn the basics of modern robotics while building your own intelligent robot from scratch! You'll use inexpensive household materials to make the base for your robot, then add motors, power, wheels, and electronics.
But wait, it gets better: your creation is actually five robots in one! --...
Making Things Smart
Easy Embedded JavaScript Programming for Making Everyday Objects into Intelligent Machines
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Making Things Smart teaches the fundamentals of the powerful ARM microcontroller by walking beginners and experienced users alike through easily assembled projects comprised of inexpensive, hardware-store parts.
Current ARM programming books take a bland, textbook approach focused on complex,...
Jumpstarting Your Own PCB
Learn How to Design and Make Customized Circuit Boards
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Learn to make your own printed circuit boards, using open source software and inexpensive manufacturing techniques!