Massimo Banzi: Getting Started with Arduino (2008)
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This valuable little book offers a thorough introduction to the open-source electronics prototyping platform that’s taking the design and hobbyist world by storm. Getting Started with Arduino gives you lots of ideas for projects and helps you get going on them right away. To use the introductory examples in this book, all you need is a USB Arduino, USB A-B cable, and an LED. This 128-page book is a greatly expanded follow-up to the author’s original short PDF that’s available on the Arduino website.
Publisher O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2008
Series: Make: Projects
ISBN 0596155514, 9780596155513
Length 118 pages
PDF (CHM)
Comment (0)Kurt W. Beyer: Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · computing, history of computing, history of technology, programming, technology
A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them, and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor of computer programming. Throughout Hopper’s later years, the popular media told this simplified version of her life story. In Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, Kurt Beyer goes beyond the screenplay-ready myth to reveal a more authentic Hopper, a vibrant and complex woman whose career paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry.
Hopper made herself “one of the boys” in Howard Aiken’s wartime Computation Laboratory at Harvard, then moved on to the Eckert and Mauchly Computer Corporation. Both rebellious and collaborative, she was influential in male-dominated military and business organizations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework and childbearing. Hopper’s greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones and zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming and software design and laid the foundation for the development of user-friendly personal computers.
Publisher MIT Press, 2009
Series: Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation
ISBN 026201310X, 9780262013109
389 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-25)
Comment (1)Mike McRoberts: Arduino Starter Kit Manual. A Complete Beginners Guide to the Arduino (2009)
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Note: The book is a work in progress and is being added to all the time. However, this will not stop you using it as there are 17 great projects so far and all the information you need to keep you busy for days or weeks with your Arduino. Keep checking back to see if there have been any additions.
For the code click HERE.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Publisher: Earthshine Design, 2009
First Edition – May 2009
Revision 3 – March 2010