Inventors at Work: The Minds and Motivation Behind Modern Inventions is a collection of interviews with inventors of famous products, innovations, and technologies that have made life easier or even changed the way we live. All of these scientists, engineers, wild-eyed geniuses, and amateur technologists have dedicated their...

• Configure and customize your BeagleBone to seamlessly connect it to external hardware using Python
• Learn to write programs that interface with the real world using GPIO ports
• Clear and step-by-step examples,...

Handbook of Multisensor Data...

This book aims to develop a reader’s thorough understanding of the opportunities and challenges of k-covered wireless sensor networks, where each point in a deployment field is covered (or sensed) by at least k sensors. Following René Descartes’ most elegant methodology of dividing each difficulty into as many parts as might...

It's the size of a credit card, it can be charged like a smartphone, it runs on open-source Linux, and it holds the promise of bringing programming and playing to millions at low cost. And now you can learn how to use this amazing computer from its...

This book is organized so that it follows a spiral development process for each stage, describing the...

This book covers every aspect of mobile app development, starting with major application components and screen layout and design, before moving on to how to manage sensors such as internal gyroscopes and near field communications. Towards the end, it delves into smartphone multimedia capabilities as well as graphics and animation, web access,...

• Learn how to connect additional hardware to the Intel Galileo to easily create complex robots
• Understand GPIO pins on the Galileo and how to use them
• Control a DC...