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Getting Started with Adafruit FLORA: Making Wearables with an Arduino-Compatible Electronics Platform

Maker Media, Inc, 2015

This book introduces readers to building wearable electronics projects using Adafruit's tiny FLORA board: at 4.4 grams, and only 1.75 inches in diameter, and featuring Arduino compatibility, it's the most beginner-friendly way to create wearable projects. This book shows you how to plan your wearable circuits, sew with...

Getting Started with Sensors: Measure the World with Electronics, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi

Maker Media, Inc, 2014

To build electronic projects that can sense the physical world, you need to build circuits based around sensors: electronic components that react to physical phenomena by sending an electrical signal. Even with only basic electronic components, you can build useful and educational sensor projects.

But if you incorporate...

How to Make a Robot

Maker Media, Inc, 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! -- build...

Getting Started with Arduino: The Open Source Electronics Prototyping Platform (Make)

Maker Media, Inc, 2014

Arduino is the open source electronics prototyping platform that has taken the Maker Movement by storm. This thorough introduction, updated for the latest Arduino release, helps you start prototyping right away. From obtaining the required components to putting the final touches on your project, all the information you need is...

Fusion 360 for Makers: Design Your Own Digital Models for 3D Printing and CNC Fabrication

Maker Media, Inc, 2018

Learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to digitally model your own original projects for a 3D printer or a CNC device. Fusion 360 software lets you design, analyze, and print your ideas. Free to students and small businesses alike, it offers solid, surface, organic, direct, and parametric modeling capabilities.

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The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory: Build Over 200 Pieces of Science Equipment! (Make)

Maker Media, Inc, 2015

In this book, you will learn how to make some amazing things: a carbon arc furnace, cloud chamber, mechanical stroboscope, radiometer, optical micrometer, electromagnet, microtome, spectroscope, and so many others. You will blow glass, catch bugs, and cut the ends off of power cords. You will learn how acids and alkalis taste, what lands of...

Making Simple Robots: Exploring Cutting-Edge Robotics with Everyday Stuff

Maker Media, Inc, 2015

Making Simple Robots is based on one idea: Anybody can build a robot! That includes kids, school teachers, parents, and non-engineers. If you can knit, sew, or fold a flat piece of paper into a box, you can build a no-tech robotic part. If you can use a hot glue gun, you can learn to solder basic electronics into a low-tech robot that reacts...

Make: Basic Arduino Projects: 26 Experiments with Microcontrollers and Electronics

Maker Media, Inc, 2014

This companion book to MakerShed's Ultimate Arduino Microcontroller Pack provides 26 clearly explained projects that you can build with this top-selling kit right away--including multicolor flashing lights, timers, tools for testing circuits, sound effects, motor control, and sensor devices.

With the Ultimate Arduino...

Getting Started with MakerBot

Maker Media, Inc, 2013

Ready to join the personal fabrication movement? This hands-on book shows you how to make a wide variety of physical objects with the amazing MakerBot 3D printer.

It’s handy when you need a replacement for something lost, broken, or no longer made—like a knob on your stove. You can make things instead of...

DIY Instruments for Amateur Space: Inventing Utility for Your Spacecraft Once It Achieves Orbit

Maker Media, Inc, 2013

What can you measure and what are your limits when orbiting in space? Learn about what physical quantities you can measure and how to design and parameterize your sensor loadout. Learn to go beyond just flying a camera and optimize your mission goals. Explore what you can play with using your own personal satellite.

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Learn to Solder: Tools and Techniques for Assembling Electronics

Maker Media, Inc, 2012

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 don't quite go right), and how to use helping hands to hold components in place.

This concise book...

Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture (DIY Science)

Maker Media, Inc, 2008

For students, DIY hobbyists, and science buffs, who can no longer get real chemistry sets, this one-of-a-kind guide explains how to set up and use a home chemistry lab, with step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments in basic chemistry -- not just to make pretty colors and stinky smells, but to learn how to do real lab...

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