Create amazing robotic projects on a shoestring budgetAbout This Book Make your projects talk and understand speech with Raspberry Pi Use standard webcam to make your projects see and enhance vision capabilities Full of simple, easy-to-understand instructions to bring your Raspberry Pi online for developing robotics projects

So Many Fiendishly Fun Ways to Use the Latest Arduino Boards! Fully updated throughout, this do-it-yourself guide shows you how to program and build fascinating projects with the Arduino Uno and Leonardo boards and the Arduino 1.0 development environment. 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius, Second Edition, gets you started right away with the simplified C programming you need to know and demonstrates how to take advantage of the latest Arduino capabilities.

Arduino is an open source microcontroller, built on a single circuit board that is capable of receiving sensory input from the environment and controlling interactive physical objects.

Arduino Robotic Projects starts with the fundamentals of turning on the basic hardware and then provides complete, step-by-step instructions that allow almost anyone to use this low-cost hardware platform. You'll build projects that can move using DC motors, walk using servo motors, and then add sensors to avoid barriers. You'll also learn how to add more complex navigational techniques such as GPRS so that your robot won't get lost.

The Arduino platform is used by more than one million people around the world to prototype electronic systems. It is the perfect platform to use to build home automation systems, as it allows you to build your own motion sensors, control lamps remotely, and control preexisting home automation devices. The Arduino platform also allows you to build wireless home automation systems using well-known technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

Boost your ham radio's capabilities using low-cost arduino microcontroller boards!
Do you want to increase the functionality and value of your ham radio without spending a lot of money? This book will show you how! Arduino Projects for Amateur Radio is filled with step-by-step microcontroller projects you can accomplish on your own--no programming experience necessary.

 Fiendishly Fun Ways to Use the BeagleBone Black!
 This wickedly inventive guide shows you how to program and build fun and fascinating projects with the BeagleBone Black. You’ll learn how to connect the BeagleBone Black to your computer and program it, quickly mastering BoneScript and other programming tools so you can get started right away.
 30 BeagleBone Black Projects for the Evil Genius is filled with a wide variety of do-it-yourself LED, sensor, robotics, display, audio, and spy gadgets. You’ll also get tips and techniques that will help you design your own ingenious devices.

 Unless you live in a haunted house, the eyes on your paintings probably don’t follow you around. However, with a couple of motion sensors, two motors, a few transistors, resistors, diodes, and wires you can convert a Van Gogh print into a macabre masterpiece with a mind of its own.
  Haywired proves that science can inspire odd contraptions. Create a Mona Lisa that smiles even wider when you approach it. Learn how to build and record a talking alarm, or craft your own talking greeting card. Construct a no-battery electric car toy that uses a super capacitor, or a flashlight that can be charged in minutes, then shine for 24 hours. Written for budding electronics hobbyists, author Mike Rigsby offers helpful hints on soldering, wire wrapping, and multimeter use. Each project is described in step-by-step detail with photographs and circuit diagrams. Includes Web sites listing suppliers and part numbers.

Microcontrollers are everywhere: from cellphones to robots they are the brains behind the electronics revolution. The PIC is one of the leading microcontrollers for professional applications, but also the first choice for experimenters and students. Now you can build your own tried and test projects along with best-selling author John Iovine. John presents 10 projects with all the introductory material that you need to get up and running. What makes this book special is the symbolic compiler that is used throughout the book and provided for FREE on an accompanying CD-ROM. New professionals and graduates will be able to understand how PICs work before learning a programming language and hobbyist can start building now!

When RadioShack announced last year that it was starting to stock Arduinos we knew just what to do: we went shopping. It's one of our favorite tools to use and we were up for any excuse to use more of them.
 The cool thing about Arduino is that it lets you do so many different things that it's really about what the user can think of. And we thought of so many things to do. Thanks to the Arduino we were able to feed pets with tweets, water our plants automatically, make a guitar pedal for crazy sounds, and so much more.
So please dig into all these projects of ours and find out what the Arduino is capable of. Redo a whole project or even just a part of one and make it your own. It's all about your own expression of what's great and the Arduino can be your new best friend in making it happen.

PIC Projects and Applications Using C details how to program the PIC microcontroller in the C language. The book takes a learn-by-doing approach, with applications covering topics such as inputs, outputs, keypads, alphanumeric displays, analogue-to-digital conversion, radio transmitters and receivers, data EEPROM, interrupts and timing. To aid debugging, the book provides a section detailing the use of the simulator and in-circuit debugger.