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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...

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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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...

Raspberry Pi and AVR Projects: Augmenting the Pi's ARM with the Atmel ATmega, ICs, and Sensors (Make)

Maker Media, Inc, 2014

As an incredibly cheap, credit-card sized computer, the Raspberry Pi is breaking down barriers by encouraging people of all ages to experiment with code and build new systems and objects; and this book provides readers with inspiring and insightful examples to explore and build upon. Written for intermediate to seasoned Raspberry Pi users,...

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 Intel Galileo

Maker Media, Inc, 2014

Getting Started with the Intel Galileo gets you up and running with this new, x86-powered board that was developed in collaboration between Arduino and Intel. You'll learn how to set it up, connect it to your computer, and begin programming. You'll learn how to build electronics projects around the Galileo, and you'll explore the...

Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting (Craft: Projects)

Maker Media, Inc, 2008

Ready to take your craft projects to the next level? With "smart" materials, unorthodox assembly techniques, and the right tools, you can create accessories, housewares, and toys that light up, make sounds, or do even more. Fashioning Technology is an introductory DIY book that brings technology and crafts together in a fun...

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...

Make, Volume 6: Technology on Your Time (Make: Technology on Your Time)

Maker Media, Inc, 2006

If you like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE, our quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer.

Every issue is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life. Everything from home entertainment systems, to...

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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