Science and Technics / Technology & engineering / Electronics

The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

by Eli Pariser

In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for all users, and we entered a new era of personalization. With little notice or fanfare, our online experience is changing, as the websites we...

Mind Performance Projects for the Evil Genius : 19 Brain-Bending Bio Hacks

by Brad Graham & Kathy McGowan

Have some evil fun inside your head!This wickedly inventive guide offers 19 build-it-yourself projects featuring high-tech devices that can map, manipulate, and even improve the greatest computer on earth-the...

Making Android Accessories with IOIO

by Simon Monk

Create your own electronic devices with the popular IOIO ("yoyo") board, and control them with your Android phone or tablet. With this concise guide, you’ll get started by building four example projects—after...

30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius

by Simon Monk

30 Ways to Have Some Computer-Controlled Evil Fun!

This wickedly inventive guide shows you how to program and build a variety of projects with the Arduino microcontroller development system. Covering Windows,...

Arduino + Android Projects for the Evil Genius: Control Arduino with Your Smartphone or Tablet

by Simon Monk

TEAM ARDUINO UP WITH ANDROID FOR SOME MISCHIEVOUS FUN!

Filled with practical, do-it-yourself gadgets, Arduino + Android Projects for the Evil Genius shows you how to create Arduino devices and control them with...

Two-Stroke Engine Repair and Maintenance

by Paul K. Dempsey

Get Peak Performance from Two-Stroke Engines

Do you spend more time trying to start your weed trimmer than you do enjoying your backyard? With this how-to guide, you can win the battle with the temperamental...

Teardowns: Learn How Electronics Work by Taking Them Apart

by Bryan Bergeron

Learn Practical Electronics From a Skilled Mentor!

"The text is written as if Dr. Bergeron, who is a highly experienced electronics practitioner, is speaking directly to the reader with a point-by-point commentary...

Build Your Own Teams of Robots with LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT and Bluetooth® 

by Cameron Hughes & Tracey Hughes

CREATE YOUR OWN SYNCHRONIZED ROBOT ARMY!

PLAN, DESIGN, ASSEMBLE, AND PROGRAM ROBOT SQUADS THAT COMMUNICATE and cooperate with each other to accomplish together what they can’t do individually. Build Your Own...

Electronics Explained: The New Systems Approach to Learning Electronics

by Louis Frenzel

Don't worry if you never took a physics course, you can easily update your electronics knowledge by following Lou's clear and logical systems-level approach. When you finish this book you will understand different...

Programming the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Python

by Simon Monk

Program your own Raspberry Pi projects

Create innovative programs and fun games on your tiny yet powerful Raspberry Pi. In this book, electronics guru Simon Monk explains the basics of Raspberry Pi application...

Learn to Solder: Tools and Techniques for Assembling Electronics

by Brian Jepson, Tyler Moskowite & Gregory Hayes

Learn the fundamentals of soldering—and pick up an essential skill for building electronic gadgets. You’ll discover how to preheat and tin your iron, make a good solder joint, desolder cleanly (when things...

Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1: Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, Switches, Encoders, Relays, Transistors

by Charles Platt

Want to know how to use an electronic component? This first book of a three-volume set includes key information on electronics parts for your projects—complete with photographs, schematics, and diagrams. You’ll...

Radio Protocols for Lte and Lte-Advanced

by SeungJune Yi, SungDuck Chun & YoungDae Lee

Provides a unique focus on radio protocols for LTE and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A)

Giving readers a valuable understanding of LTE radio protocols, this book covers LTE (Long-Term Evolution) Layer 2/3 radio protocols...

Programming Arduino Getting Started with Sketches

by Simon Monk

Program Arduino with ease!

Using clear, easy-to-follow examples, Programming Arduino: Getting Started with Sketches reveals the software side of Arduino and explains how to write well-crafted sketches using the...

Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts

by Thomas Willeford

Unleash Your Inner Mechanical Mastermind

Welcome to the wondrous world of Thomas Willeford, aka Lord Archibald "Feathers" Featherstone, in which he shares his closely guarded secrets of Steampunkery. Filled...

Practical Electronics for Inventors 2/E

by Paul Scherz

THE BOOK THAT MAKES ELECTRONICS MAKE SENSE This intuitive, applications-driven guide to electronics for hobbyists, engineers, and students doesn't overload readers with technical detail. Instead, it tells you-and...

VoIP For Dummies

by Timothy V. Kelly

Put your phone system on your computer network and see the savings

See how to get started with VoIP, how it works, and why it saves you money

VoIP is techspeak for "voice over Internet protocol," but it could...

Nanotechnology for Environmental Decontamination

by Manoj Kumar Ram & E. Silvana Andreescu

CUTTING-EDGE NANOTECHNOLOGY TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DECONTAMINATION

Written by a team of global experts, Nanotechnology for Environmental Contamination covers the latest methods for using...

Hashing in Computer Science: Fifty Years of Slicing and Dicing

by Alan G. Konheim

Written by one of the developers of the technology, Hashing is both a historical document on the development of hashing and an analysis of the applications of hashing in a society increasingly concerned with...

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA

by Nick Randolph & Christopher Fairbairn

A one-of-a-kind book on Windows Phone 7 development

While numerous books cover both Silverlight and XNA, there lacks a resource that covers the specifics of Windows Phone 7 development. This book fills that void...