The design process has always been central to construction, but recent years have seen its significance increase, and the ways of approaching it multiply. To an increasing degree, other stakeholders such as contractors have input at the design stage, and the designer’s role includes tasks that were traditionally...

• Meet Arduino and its main components and understand how they work to use them in your real-world projects
• Assemble circuits using the most common electronic devices such as LEDs,...

• Learn the basics of this emerging technology and have fun doing it
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• Explore the different types of classification algorithms available in Apache Mahout
• Create and evaluate your own ready-to-use classification models using real world datasets
• A practical guide to...

The textbook is organized in the way an engineer classically proceeds to solve a control problem, that is, elaboration of a mathematical model capturing...

• Create 2D reusable games using...

• Understand all major Kinect API features including image streaming, skeleton tracking...

AC voltage frequency changes is one of the most important functions of solid state power converters. The most desirable features in frequency converters are the ability to generate load voltages with arbitrary amplitude and frequency, sinusoidal currents and voltages waveforms; the possibility of providing unity power factor for any load;...

• Program your very own video game on the Raspberry Pi using the Scratch programming language
• Install and manage your Raspberry Pi
• Set up your Raspberry Pi to play hundreds of...

Australia and the United States face very similar challenges in dealing with drought. Both countries cover a range of biophysical conditions, both are federations that provide considerable responsibility to state governments for water and land management, and both face the challenges in balancing rural industry and urban development,...