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The Piccolino rapid development board can be used to design microcontroller circuits quickly. The Piccolino has a fast 16f887 PIC microcontroller, voltage regulator, and communications module, and can be easily extended using its four headers. This e-book contains 30 projects based on the Piccolino. We'll use its unique communications facilities and get the Piccolino to communicate with programs on a PC. On the PC, we use the free programming language Small Basic. You can use this to create Windows programs with buttons and graphs quickly. You will learn how to analyze components such as inductors, capacitors, and OPAMPs, and how to display the measurement results in a graphical format. This will help you to design your circuits easily. We will then start to adapt to the Piccolino. We'll add components to it to make it more powerful, with extra features such as flow control and digital to analog conversion. The clear instructions will enable you to design and build your adaptations. This way you can make your custom designed Piccolino. We'll end up making an extension: a PCB that that can be mounted on the Piccolino headers. As an example, we'll design and build an extension for an LCD. You can use the included board layout to make your PCB or have it made for you. At the same time, you will learn how to make your extensions. The only limitation is your imagination! The clear descriptions along with circuit diagrams and photos, will make the building of these projects an enjoyable experience. Each project has a clear explanation of the reasons why it was designed in a particular way. This helps you learn a lot about the Piccolino, as well as Small Basic, and the components that are used in this e-book. You can adapt the projects to suit your requirements or combine several projects.

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If you enjoy DIY electronics, projects, software and robots, you’ll find this book intellectually stimulating and immediately useful. With the right parts and a little guidance, you can build robot systems that suit your needs more than overpriced commercial systems can. 20 years ago, robots based on simple 8-bit processors and touch sensors were the norm. Now, it’s possible to build multi-core robots that can react to their surroundings with intelligence. Today’s robots combine sensor readings from accelerometers, gyroscopes and computer vision sensors to learn about their environments. They can respond using sophisticated control algorithms and they can process data both locally and in the cloud. This book, which covers the theory and best practices associated with advanced robot technologies, was written to help roboticists, whether amateur hobbyist or professional, take their designs to the next level. As will be seen, building advanced applications does not require extremely costly robot technology. All that is needed is simply the knowledge of which technologies are out there and how best to use each of them. Each chapter in this book will introduce one of these different technologies and discuss how best to use it in a robotics application. On the hardware side, we’ll cover microcontrollers, servos, and sensors, hopefully inspiring you to design your own awe-inspiring, next-generation systems. On the software side, we’ll cover programming languages, debugging, algorithms, and state machines. We’ll focus on the Arduino, the Parallax Propeller, Revolution Education PICAXE and projects I’ve with which I’ve been involved, including the TBot educational robot, the PropScope oscilloscope, the 12Blocks visual programming language, and the ViewPort development environment. In addition, we’ll serve up a comprehensive introduction to a variety of essential topics, including output (e.g. LEDs, servo motors), and communication technologies (e.g. infrared, audio), that you can use to develop systems that interact to stimuli and communicate with humans and other robots. To make these topics as accessible as possible, handy schematics, sample code and practical tips regarding building and debugging have been included. Hanno Sander Christchurch, New Zealand

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Mastering the Language and the Development Platform Many people would like to learn Java but getting started is not easy since programming with Java requires at least two things: mastering the programming language and the development environment. With the help of many examples, this book shows how the language is structured. In addition, it employs the Eclipse development environment as an example of a powerful tool to teach developing Java programs. In Basics, the first part of the book, you acquire your Java and Eclipse basic knowledge. This part lays the programming foundations, gives you an overview of Java technology, and shows you what is special about object-oriented programming. In the second part called Java Language, everything revolves around the subtleties of the Java language and this is where the first small Java applications are created, aided by a fine blend of the knowledge part and practical exercises. Java Technology is both the name and the focus of the third part which also introduces you to the rules to observe when programming, what class libraries are and what advantages they have. In addition, you will learn how to test programs, what algorithms are, and how to program them. The fourth part, Java Projects, enables you to apply all the previous elements in an application with a graphical user interface. The project shows how to develop a larger application piece by piece with the Eclipse development environment. The Appendix concludes with a section on frequent errors that can occur when working with Eclipse, and a Glossary.

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Aus der Reihe "Stromversorgung ohne Stress" (Band 3) Elektronik ohne Batterien oder Versorgungsnetz Für den Betrieb moderner elektronischer Bauteile ist vergleichsweise nur noch wenig Energie notwendig. Dies eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten, wie z. B. Schaltungen und Baugruppen, die ohne Batterien oder Akkumulatoren auskommen und auch keinen Anschluss an das Versorgungsnetz benötigen. Damit entfällt auch ein großer Teil des Wartungsaufwandes. Die Baugruppen arbeiten weitestgehend „für sich alleine“. Die Energie wird auf unterschiedlichste Weise aus der Umgebung gewonnen. Dazu sind allerdings spezielle Techniken erforderlich. Nicht nur zur Gewinnung der Energie – auch zur Umformung, so dass sie für elektronische Schaltungen nutzbar ist. In diesem Buch geht es um die Bereitstellung kleiner Energiemengen, mit denen kleine Geräte (Sensoren, Sender und Empfänger für QRP oder Datenübertragung, etc.) völlig autark betrieben werden können – wenn möglich, mit Bauteilen aus der Bastelkiste und ohne komplexe, spezialisierte Integrierte Schaltungen. Die am Thema interessierten Elektroniker und „Macher“ lernen hier, wie sie eigene reale Energy-Harvesting-Projekte mit Teilen aus der Bastelkiste umsetzen können, ohne vorher viel Zeit für lange theoretische Abhandlungen aufzubringen. Gerade beim Energy Harvesting ist es jedoch nicht immer möglich auf Spezial–ICs zu verzichten. Es geht eben um jedes µW und es ist leicht nachvollziehbar, dass es einfacher ist, auf einer kleinen Chipfläche mit wenig Energie zu arbeiten, als bei einer ausladenden Schaltung mit umfangreicher Verdrahtung. Die mehr „theoretischen“ oder grundsätzlichen Themen wurden in die einzelnen Kapitel und Projekte eingestreut. Den vollständigen Überblick erhält man deshalb erst, wenn man das Buch in Gänze gelesen hat. Dafür kann der Leser bereits im 2. Kapitel ein erstes Projekt umsetzen.

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De mens is van nature uitgerust met sensoren voor geluid, licht, geur, smaak en gevoel. Zintuigen die met elektronica slechts ten dele gekopieerd kunnen worden. Met de Elektor sensorkit kunnen we wel aardig in de buurt komen. Sensoren kunnen elektronica aansturen, maar ze kunnen ons ook van informatie voorzien. Daarom vormt niet alleen het meten van grootheden, maar ook het zichtbaar maken ervan via de Arduino seriële monitor een niet onbelangrijk deel van dit boek. De microprocessor ATtiny85 die de Arduino-taal begrijpt, maakt het experimenteren met sensoren gemakkelijk en goedkoop. We zullen niet snel een Arduino-kaartje vast solderen in een permanente opstelling. Bij een achtpotige ATtiny zal dat geen schuldgevoel opleveren. Dat neemt niet weg dat alle sketches gewoon op elk Arduino-board draaien met mogelijk hier en daar een aanpassing van pennummers omdat die kunnen verschillen met reguliere Arduino-boards. We zullen uitgebreid aandacht besteden aan het programmeren van de ATtiny. Veel schakelingen zijn bruikbaar in het natuurkundepracticum op school of voor bedrijfsmatige toepassingen. Maar de nadruk ligt toch wel op de (beginnende) elektronicahobbyist die zijn vrije tijd op een leuke maar vooral ook nuttige manier wil besteden. Want meer dan ooit tevoren heeft techniek de toekomst.

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ÉLECTRICITÉ PHOTOVOLTAÏQUE = ÉLECTRICITÉ GRATUITE Nous sommes désormais plus qu'heureux de poursuivre nos recherches sur notre propre autonomie et de veiller à ce que notre production électrique photovoltaïque soit appropriée ! D'abord on en rêve, puis vient l'étape du calcul : comparer le coût du kilowattheure d'origine du nucléaire (environnement à partir de centimes d'euro) et le calcul du kilowattheure d'origine photovoltaïque (l'environnement de 22 centimes de l'euro*), et nous saurons où en sont nos motivations d'écocitoyens. Gérard Guihéneuf, l'auteur de ce nouveau livre, pense qu'il ne faut pas se contenter d'aligner chiffres et idées. La nouvelle approche du processus de création d'entreprise se base sur la compréhension et les dimensions des installations des bâtiments domestiques dans le domaine public en 2009 et sur l'actualité des techniques et pratiques de réponse aux questions qui se posent lors de l'électrification des le site isolé ! La conception de projets simples, comme un contexte domestique, et d'un commentaire électrique standard, comme un système d'énergie photovoltaïque, trois emplacements réguliers : un abri dans le jardin, un garage et un mobil-home. L'économie est spectaculaire lorsqu'il s'agit de composants électroniques et d'assemblages de certains constituants essentiels, car les régulateurs de charge, les onduleurs et les panneaux solaires ne suffisent pas à l'entretien autonome du site. Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur l'électrification professionnelle de votre chantier, vous pouvez en savoir plus sur les dimensions des éléments constitutifs sans sacrifier l'efficacité ! Vous pouvez également utiliser la copie du Gerber et du Sprint Layout pour les circuits imprimés de la livrée. *avec les batteries en cours de reconditionnement lors de la panne photovoltaïque en cours et dans les vingt-cinq

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39 Experiments with Raspberry Pi and Arduino This book is about Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino camera projects. The book explains in simple terms and with tested and working example projects, how to configure and use a Raspberry Pi camera and USB based webcam in camera-based projects using a Raspberry Pi. Example projects are given to capture images, create timelapse photography, record video, use the camera and Raspberry Pi in security and surveillance applications, post images to Twitter, record wildlife, stream live video to YouTube, use a night camera, send pictures to smartphones, face and eye detection, colour and shape recognition, number plate recognition, barcode recognition and many more. Installation and use of popular image processing libraries and software including OpenCV, SimpleCV, and OpenALPR are explained in detail using a Raspberry Pi. The book also explains in detail how to use a camera on an Arduino development board to capture images and then save them on a microSD card. All projects given in this book have been fully tested and are working. Program listings for all Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects used in this book are available for download on the Elektor website.

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An Introduction to Circuit Simulation LTspice, developed by Analog Devices, is a powerful, fast, and free SPICE simulator, schematic capture, and waveform viewer with a large database of components supported by SPICE models from all over the world. Drawing a schematic in LTspice is easy and fast. Thanks to its powerful graphing features, you can visualize the voltages and currents in a circuit, and also the power consumption of its components and much more. This book is about learning to design and simulate electronic circuits using LTspice. Among others, the following topics are treated: DC and AC circuits Signal diodes and Zener diodes Transistor circuits including oscillators Thyristor/SCR, diac, and triac circuits Operational amplifier circuits including oscillators The 555 timer IC Filters Voltage regulators Optocouplers Waveform generation Digital logic simulation including the 74HC family SPICE modeling LTspice is a powerful electronic circuit simulation tool with many features and possibilities. Covering them all in detail is not possible in a book of this size. Therefore, this book presents the most common topics like DC and AC circuit analysis, parameter sweeping, transfer functions, oscillators, graphing, etc. Although this book is an introduction to LTspice, it covers most topics of interest to people engaged in electronic circuit simulation. The book is aimed at electronic/electrical engineers, students, teachers, and hobbyists. Many tested simulation examples are given in the book. Readers do not need to have any computer programming skills, but it will help if they are familiar with basic electronic circuit design and operation principles. Readers who want to dive deeper can find many detailed tutorials, articles, videos, design files, and SPICE circuit models on the Internet. All the simulation examples used in the book are available as files at the webpage of this book. Readers can use these example circuits for learning or modify them for their own applications.

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Elektronica moeilijk? De titel van dit boek geeft het antwoord! In deze 3-in-1-band wordt de elektronica vanuit de praktijk benaderd. Dat wil zeggen veel praktijk in de vorm van experimenten en een minimum aan theorie. Zo raakt u stap voor stap vertrouwd met de behandelde onderwerpen. Daarbij ontstaan gaandeweg ook een flink aantal praktisch bruikbare schakelingen. Het gaat bij de elektronicahobby tenslotte om het bouwen of uitdenken van allerlei praktische of leuke schakelingen. Aan het eind van elk deel is een aanhangsel opgenomen met aanvullende informatie en de gegevens van een groot aantal elektronische componenten, zodat na dit boek ook eigen ideeën en experimenten kunnen worden aangepakt. In deze 3-in-1-band zijn de eerste drie delen uit de serie “Elektronica echt niet moeilijk” samengevoegd: Deel 1: experimenten met gelijkstroom Deel 2: experimenten met wisselstroom Deel 3: experimenten met digitale techniek

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If you can describe it, you can build it AI coding assistants are changing what makers and solopreneurs can build. Tasks that once demanded weeks of learning a new language, framework, or software stack can now be delegated to an AI—provided you know how to describe the job, judge the result, and keep control of the process. The Maker’s Guide to AI Coding is a practical guide to doing exactly that. It explains how to work with AI coding tools as collaborators rather than vending machines, how much to delegate, how to write specifications that produce useful results, and how to recognise hallucinations, context drift, overconfidence, and code that runs but is still wrong. The book is built around four increasingly ambitious projects. You begin with a browser-based RC filter analyser, then develop a live serial data plotter for Arduino and other microcontrollers. Next comes a datasheet questionand- answer tool using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), followed by a complete multi-user resource booking system with authentication, a database, external services, background jobs, and deployment. No advanced programming background is required. The emphasis is on thinking clearly, guiding the AI, testing what it produces, and preserving the skills needed to evaluate its work. Along the way, you learn development workflow designed to remain useful as tools evolve. If you can describe what you want to build, this book shows you how to turn that description into working software.

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Im vorliegenden Buch wird das weltweit verbreitete 0G-Netzwerk Sigfox zunächst detailliert vorgestellt. Danach wird auf der Basis eines leistungsfähigen Arduino-Sigfox-Boards eine universelle Sigfox-Test-, Mess- und Simulations-Plattform hardwaremäßig entwickelt und softwaremäßig betrieben. Diese Sigfox-Feldstation stellt dem Anwender eine Vielzahl von Möglichkeiten zur Verfügung: Sensoren, Aktoren und Displays inkl. GPS-Modul und Solargenerator. Alle Schaltungsteile (inkl. den 3D-Plott-Vorlagen für ein passendes Stationsgehäuse) und sämtlichen Softwaremodule werden offen gelegt, so dass der Leser damit weitere Sigfox-Feldstationen nach seinen eigenen Vorstellungen und Bedürfnissen entwickeln und problemlos einsetzen kann. Die Visualisierung, Auswertung und Speicherung der erfassten Felddaten wird anhand eines Freeware Dashboard Programms, mit Schnittstelle zu Google Maps, ausführlich beschrieben. Themenauswahl: Industrie 4.0, Internet of Things, 0G-Netzwerke Das Sigfox-Netzwerk: Übertragungstechnik, Uplink/Downlink, das Monarch-Konzept, Geolokalisierung, Sigfox-Atlas-Konzept Das Sigfox-Backend, die Callbacks und die REST-API Aufbau der universellen Sigfox-Test-, Mess- und Simulations-Plattform auf der Basis des Arduino-Sigfox-Moduls MKR FOX1200 Die grundlegende Betriebssoftware für alle Komponenten Die Arduino-Sigfox-Bibliothek und der Sigfox-Betrieb – Anmeldung bei der Sigfox-Cloud, Aussendung von Mess- und Zustandswerten Die Sigfox-Callbacks – Der Datentransfer von der Sigfox-Cloud zum Anwender: E-Mails, Mess- und Zustandswerte, GeoLoc-Daten Die individuelle Gestaltung von Anwender-Dashboards Hardwareerweiterungen: HMI-Display, Thermoelementverstärker, Multichannel-Gassensor, Feinstaubsensor, GPS-Modul und vieles mehr Kommerzielle Sigfox-Stationen

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A Combat Guide against E-waste and Throwawayism This book is for anyone who enjoys tinkering with analog and digital hardware electronics. Regardless of the sophistication of your workspace, only basic tools are required to achieve truly satisfying results. It is intended as a reference guide among other hardware repair publications you may have in your library. However, the book goes a step further than most other repair guides in addressing issues in the modern era of discarded electronics called e-waste. E-waste should be put to good use. Producing anything new requires not just precious resources and labor, but also energy to make and deliver it to global retail shelves. Your talents and love of electronics can be put to good use by rescuing and resurrecting at least selected units from this endless stream of e-waste. Examples include either restoring through repair, or salvaging reusable electronic and mechanical components for your next project. Smart tips are provided throughout the book, and much information is tabulated for easy reference. The book expands age-old repair and hacking techniques applied for repair on the workbench into clever methods and applications to achieve effective results with discarded or “non-servicable” electronic consumer products. The final chapter provides real-life examples using all of the previously discussed content in a summarized form for each example repair type.

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