Selasa, 22 Mei 2012

Wow! eBook: Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV - 6 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV - 6 new eBooks

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Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV

Posted: 22 May 2012 09:19 AM PDT

Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV

Book Description

With this Early Release edition of Practical with , you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.

is a cross platform (Windows, Macintosh, ) framework in that makes writing applications quick and easy. This book takes you through real world examples and applications using SimpleCV so that anyone, even with zero knowledge of , can use to create their own vision application in a few minutes with a webcam and . SimpleCV has its own integrated ( line) and code editor so you can rapidly test new techniques, load and run examples, view documentation, etc. The library also works with webcams, cell phones, the , and TI’s Beagle Board and Panda Board. There are 1-click installers for every platform, so you can be up and running any of the examples included in this book in a few minutes.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Getting to Know the SimpleCV framework
Chapter 3. Image Sources
Chapter 4. Pixels and Images
Chapter 5. The Impact of Light
Chapter 6. Image Arithmetic
Chapter 7. Drawing on Images
Chapter 8. Basic Feature Detection

Book Details

  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly (May 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449320368
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449320362
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Learn to Solder

Posted: 22 May 2012 09:19 AM PDT

Learn to Solder

Product Description

Learn the fundamentals of soldering—and pick up an essential skill for building gadgets. You'll discover preheat and tin your iron, make a good solder joint, desolder cleanly (when things don’t quite go right), and use helping hands to hold components in place.

This concise book is part of MAKE's Getting Started with Soldering Kit. Using the tools in the kit and some components, you can practice soldering while making fun blinky objects. Then show the world you just learned a new skill by wearing the Learn to Solder Skill Badge.

  • Learn prepare your workspace
  • Get to know the components you'll work with
  • Use the best methods for soldering components in place
  • Experience the perfect solder joint
  • Know how to desolder when things don't work the first time

Heat up the iron and start soldering today!

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting the Workspace Ready
Chapter 2. How to Solder
Chapter 3. Desoldering
Chapter 4. What's Next?

Book Details

  • Paperback: 52 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly / Make (May 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449337244
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449337247
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Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer

Posted: 22 May 2012 09:18 AM PDT

Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer

Book Description

Learn how to quickly build cool electronic gadgets with Gadgeteer. With the easy-to-follow instructions in this guide, you'll tackle five fascinating projects, using 's rapid prototyping Gadgeteer platform. There's no soldering involved—you simply plug in modules that make gadget-building quick and easy.

Ideal for beginners, this book shows you how to work with modules and other hardware in the popular Fez Spider Starter Kit, and teaches you how to program your gadgets with # Express and the Micro Framework 4.1 SDK. You'll soon learn a wide range of techniques along with the skills to your own projects.

  • Get to know the software and hardware with a simple LED
  • Download code from the companion site to build and test each
  • Build a spy that automatically captures and saves images at regular intervals
  • Construct a simple animated with the joystick
  • Create a web server that sends messages you draw or write on the touchscreen
  • Build a gadget that backs up images from an SD card to a USB flash drive
  • Learn about other .NET Gadgeteer modules for creating environmental sensors, an MP3 player, and a network

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer
Chapter 2. Spy
Chapter 3. Snowflakes
Chapter 4. Web Messenger
Chapter 5. Camera Backup Gadget
Chapter 6. What Next?

Book Details

  • Paperback: 90 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly / Make (May 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449328237
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449328238
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 30

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:08 AM PDT

Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 30

Book Description

The first magazine devoted entirely to do-it-yourself technology projects presents its 30th quarterly edition for people who like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology.

Until recently, home automation was an unfulfilled promise — systems were gimmicky, finicky, user-hostile, or potentially unsecure. But today, thanks to a new crop of devices and technologies, home automation is useful, fun, and maker-friendly. Using smartphones, networks, the internet, simple microcontrollers, and even gesture recognition, -style Smart Homes can now do everything promised and more, for much less — and MAKE shows you how in Volume 30.

Table of Contents

  • Smarter Homes
  • Homemade Home
  • The Nag
  • Networked Smart Thermostat
  • Notify Me Now!
  • X10 Macro
  • 12,000-Mile Universal Remote
  • Keybanging
  • Home Smart Home

About the Author
Mark Frauenfelder is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles, and the editor of MAKE. He is the cofounder of the popular Boing Boing weblog and was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly / Make (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449314376
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449314378
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Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:07 AM PDT

Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments

Book Description

Experience the magic of in your own home lab. This hands-on introduction includes more than 30 educational (and fun) experiments that help you explore this fascinating field on your own. Perfect for middle- and high-school students and enthusiasts, this full-color teaches you the basics of lab work and shows you set up a safe lab at home.

The Illustrated to Home Experiments is also written with the needs of homeschoolers firmly in mind, as well as adults who are eager to explore the science of nature as a life-long hobby. To get the most from the experiments, we recommend using this guide in conjunction with a standard biology text, such as the freely downloadable CK-12 Biology (ck-12.org).

  • Master the use of the microscope, including sectioning and staining
  • Build and observe microcosms, soda-bottle worlds of pond life
  • Investigate the chemistry of life from simple acids, bases, and buffers to complex carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, enzymes, and DNA
  • Extract, isolate, and observe DNA
  • Explore photosynthesis, osmosis, nitrogen fixation, and other life processes
  • Investigate the cell cycle (mitosis and cytokinesis)
  • Observe populations and ecosystems, and perform air and water pollution tests
  • Investigate genetics and inheritance
  • Do hands-on microbiology, from simple culturing to micro-evolution of bacteria by forced selection
  • Gain hands-on lab experience to prepare for the AP Biology exam

Through their company, The Home Scientist, LLC (thehomescientist.com/biology), the authors also offer inexpensive custom kits that provide specialized equipment and supplies you'll need to complete the experiments. Add a microscope and some common household items and you're good to go.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Equipping a Home Biology Laboratory
Chapter 3. Laboratory Safety
Chapter 4. Using a Microscope
Chapter 5. Mounting Specimens
Chapter 6. Staining
Chapter 7. Building and Observing Microcosms
Chapter 8. Observing Succession in Aquarium Microcosms
Chapter 9. Observing the Effects of Pollution in Microcosms
Chapter 10. Acids, Bases, and Buffers
Chapter 11. Carbohydrates and Lipids
Chapter 12. Proteins, Enzymes, and Vitamins
Chapter 13. Coacervates
Chapter 14. Extracting, Isolating, and Visualizing DNA
Chapter 15. Build a Gel Electrophoresis Apparatus
Chapter 16. Simulated DNA Separation by Gel Electrophoresis
Chapter 17. Chlorophyll and Photosynthesis
Chapter 18. Investigating Osmosis
Chapter 19. Investigating Cell Division
Chapter 20. Sampling Plant Populations in a Community
Chapter 21. Observing the Effect of Rhizobia on Plant Growth
Chapter 22. Air Pollution Testing
Chapter 23. Soil and Water Pollution Testing
Chapter 24. Exploring Mendelian Genetics
Chapter 25. Observing Specialized Eukaryotic Cells
Chapter 26. Preparing Culturing
Chapter 27. Culturing Bacteria
Chapter 28. Investigating Bacterial Antibiotic Sensitivity
Chapter 29. Investigating Protista
Chapter 30. Investigating Fungi
Chapter 31. Investigating Simple Plants: Mosses and Ferns
Chapter 32. Investigating Seed Plants
Chapter 33. Investigating Porifera and Cnidaria
Chapter 34. Investigating Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, and Annelida
Chapter 35. Investigating Arthropods
Chapter 36. Investigating Vertebrate Tissues

Book Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly / Make (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449396593
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449396596
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Fitness for Geeks

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Fitness for Geeks

Book Description

If you're interested in how things work, this will help you experiment with one crucial system you usually ignore—your body and its health. Long hours focusing on code or circuits tends to stifle notions of nutrition, but with this educational and highly useful book you can approach fitness through science, whether it's investigating your ancestral health or using the latest self-tracking and gear.

Tune into components of your health through discussions on food, exercise, sleep, hormesis, and other issues—as well as interviews with various scientists and athletes—and discover healthy ways to tinker with your lifestyle.

  • Learn to live in the modern world and still be physically vibrant
  • Examine and widgets for self-tracking various fitness issues
  • Zero in on carbs, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals
  • Find and choose food, and learn when to eat and when to fast
  • Reboot your system through movement in the outside world
  • Select from more than a dozen techniques for your gym workout
  • Fuel fitness by focusing on the science of nutrition and supplements
  • Apply lifestyle hacks, such as high-intensity exercise and good stress

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Fitness and the Human Codebase: Reboot Your Operating System
Chapter 2. Fitness Tools and Apps
Chapter 3. Food Chemistry Basics: Proteins, Fats, and Carbs
Chapter 4. Micronutrients: Vitamins, Minerals, and Phytochemicals
Chapter 5. Food Hacks: Finding and Choosing Food
Chapter 6. Food Timing: When to Eat, When to Fast
Chapter 7. The Other World: A.K.A. Outside
Chapter 8. Hello, Gym! Finding Your Way Around the Fitness Facility
Chapter 9. Randomizing Fitness and the Importance of R & R
Chapter 10. Code Maintenance: Human Fueling and Supplements
Chapter 11. Lifestyle Hacks for Fitness

Book Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly (April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449399894
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449399894
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