| Make an Arduino-Controlled Robot Posted: 08 Nov 2012 04:05 AM PST 
Book Description Building robots that sense and interact with their environment used to be tricky. Now, Arduino makes it easy. With this book and an Arduino microcontroller and software creation environment, you'll learn how to build and program a robot that can roam around, sense its environment, and perform a wide variety of tasks. All you to get started with the fun projects is a little programming experience and a keen interest in electronics. Make a robot that obeys your every command—or runs on its own. Maybe you're a teacher who wants to show students how to build devices that can move, sense, respond, and interact with the physical world. Or perhaps you're a hobbyist looking for a robot companion to make your world a little more futuristic. With Make an Arduino Controlled Robot, you'll learn how to build and customize smart robots on wheels. You will: - Explore robotics concepts like movement, obstacle detection, sensors, and remote control
- Use Arduino to build two- and four-wheeled robots
- Put your robot in motion with motor shields, servos, and DC motors
- Work with distance sensors, infrared reflectance sensors, and remote control receivers
- Understand how to program your robot to take on all kinds of real-world physical challenges
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Robot Building
Chapter 2. Building the Electronics
Chapter 3. Building the Two-Wheeled Mobile Platform
Chapter 4. Building the Four-Wheeled Mobile Platform
Chapter 5. Tutorial: Getting Started with Arduino
Chapter 6. Testing the Robot’s Basic Functions
Chapter 7. Controlling Speed and Direction
Chapter 8. Tutorial: Introduction to Sensors
Chapter 9. Modifying the Robot to React to Edges and Lines
Chapter 10. Autonomous Movement
Chapter 11. Remote Control Appendix A. Enhancing Your Robot
Appendix B. Using Other Hardware with Your Robot
Appendix C. Debugging Your Robot
Appendix D. Power Sources
Appendix E. Programming Constructs
Appendix F. Arduino Pin and Timer Usage Book Details - Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (October 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449344372
- ISBN-13: 978-1449344375
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| Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1 Posted: 08 Nov 2012 04:00 AM PST 
Book Description Want to know how to use an electronic component? This first book of a three-volume set includes key information on electronics parts for your projects—complete with photographs, schematics, and diagrams. You'll learn what each one does, how it works, why it's useful, and what variants exist. No matter how much you know about electronics, you'll find fascinating details you've never come across before. Convenient, concise, well-organized, and precise Perfect for teachers, hobbyists, engineers, and students of all ages, this reference puts reliable, fact-checked information right at your fingertips—whether you're refreshing your memory or exploring a component for the first time. Beginners will quickly grasp important concepts, and more experienced users will find the specific details their projects require. - Unique: the first and only encyclopedia set on electronic components, distilled into three separate volumes
- Incredibly detailed: includes information distilled from hundreds of sources
- Easy to browse: parts are clearly organized by component type
- Authoritative: fact-checked by expert advisors to ensure that the information is both current and accurate
- Reliable: a more consistent source of information than online sources, product datasheets, and manufacturer's tutorials
- Instructive: each component description provides details about substitutions, common problems, and workarounds
- Comprehensive: Volume 1 covers power, electromagnetism, and discrete semi-conductors; Volume 2 includes integrated circuits, and light and sound sources; Volume 3 covers a range of sensing devices.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. How to Use This Book
Chapter 2. battery
Chapter 3. jumper
Chapter 4. fuse
Chapter 5. pushbutton
Chapter 6. switch
Chapter 7. rotary switch
Chapter 8. rotational encoder
Chapter 9. relay
Chapter 10. resistor
Chapter 11. potentiometer
Chapter 12. capacitor
Chapter 13. variable capacitor
Chapter 14. inductor
Chapter 15. AC-AC transformer
Chapter 16. AC-DC power supply
Chapter 17. DC-DC converter
Chapter 18. DC-AC inverter
Chapter 19. voltage regulator
Chapter 20. electromagnet
Chapter 21. solenoid
Chapter 22. DC motor
Chapter 23. AC motor
Chapter 24. servo motor
Chapter 25. stepper motor
Chapter 26. diode
Chapter 27. unijunction transistor
Chapter 28. bipolar transistor
Chapter 29. field effect transistor Book Details - Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (October 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449333893
- ISBN-13: 978-1449333898
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| WordPress: The Missing Manual Posted: 08 Nov 2012 03:54 AM PST 
Book Description Whether you're a budding blogger or web development professional, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites—if you know how to tap its impressive features. This jargon-free Missing Manual shows you how to use WordPress and its themes, plug-ins, and widgets to build just about any website you can imagine, from a classy blog to a basic e-commerce site. The important stuff you need to know: - Create a blog. Get a free WordPress.com account, choose the right theme, and start publishing content.
- Build a website. Produce a professional-looking business site by customizing a WordPress theme.
- Add features. Choose from thousands of WordPress widgets and plug-ins to extend your site's features.
- Mix in multimedia. Include slideshows, video clips, webcasts, podcasts, and music players.
- Involve your readers. Let readers leave comments, contribute to your site, and carry on a dialog.
- Build an audience. Learn search-engine optimization, measure your reader's favorite pages, and publicize your site.
- Create a community. Use social media tools such as "Like" and sharing buttons, and provide RSS feeds of your posts.
Table of Contents
Part I: Starting Out with WordPress
Chapter 1. The WordPress Landscape
Chapter 2. Signing Up with WordPress.com
Chapter 3. Installing WordPress on Your Web Host Part II: Building a WordPress Blog
Chapter 4. Creating Posts
Chapter 5. Choosing and Polishing Your WordPress Theme
Chapter 6. Jazzing Up Your Posts
Chapter 7. Adding Pages and Menus
Chapter 8. Comments: Letting Your Readers Talk Back Part III: Supercharging Your Blog
Chapter 9. Getting New Features with Plug-Ins
Chapter 10. Adding Picture Galleries, Video, and Music
Chapter 11. Collaborating with Multiple Authors
Chapter 12. Attracting a Crowd Part IV: From Blog to Website
Chapter 13. Editing Themes: The Key to Customizing Your Site
Chapter 14. Building an Advanced WordPress Site Part V: Appendixes
Appendix A. Migrating from WordPress.com
Appendix B. Useful Websites Book Details - Paperback: 558 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Pogue Press (October 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449309844
- ISBN-13: 978-1449309848
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| QuickBooks 2013: The Missing Manual Posted: 08 Nov 2012 03:48 AM PST 
Book Description The Official Intuit Guide to QuickBooks 2013 Your bookkeeping workflow will be smoother and faster with QuickBooks 2013, and as the program’s Official Guide, this Missing Manual puts you firmly in control. You get step-by-step instructions on how and when to use specific features, along with basic accounting advice to guide you through the learning process. The important stuff you need to know: - Get started. Set up your accounts, customers, jobs, and invoice items quickly.
- Follow the money. Track everything from billable time and expenses to income and profit.
- Keep your company financially fit. Examine budgets and actual spending, income, inventory, assets, and liabilities.
- Spend less time on bookkeeping. Use QuickBooks to create and reuse bills, invoices, sales receipts, and timesheets.
- Find key info fast. Rely on QuickBooks' Search and Find features, as well as the Vendor, Customer, Inventory, and Employee Centers.
- Exchange data with other programs. Move data between QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, and other programs.
Table of Contents
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1. Creating a Company File
Chapter 2. Getting Around in QuickBooks
Chapter 3. Setting Up a Chart of Accounts
Chapter 4. Setting Up Customers, Jobs, and Vendors
Chapter 5. Setting Up Items
Chapter 6. Setting Up Other QuickBooks Lists
Chapter 7. Managing QuickBooks Files Part II: Bookkeeping
Chapter 8. Tracking Time and Mileage
Chapter 9. Paying for Expenses
Chapter 10. Invoicing
Chapter 11. Producing Statements
Chapter 12. Transaction Timesavers
Chapter 13. Managing Accounts Receivable
Chapter 14. Doing Payroll
Chapter 15. Bank Accounts and Petty Cash
Chapter 16. Making Journal Entries
Chapter 17. Generating Financial Statements
Chapter 18. Performing End-of-Year Tasks Part III: Managing Your Business
Chapter 19. Managing Inventory
Chapter 20. Budgeting and Planning
Chapter 21. Working with Reports Part IV: QuickBooks Power
Chapter 22. Online Banking Services
Chapter 23. Configuring Preferences to Fit Your Company
Chapter 24. Integrating QuickBooks with Other Programs
Chapter 25. Customizing QuickBooks
Chapter 26. Keeping Your QuickBooks Data Secure Part V: Appendixes
Appendix A. Installing QuickBooks
Appendix B. Help, Support, and Other Resources Book Details - Paperback: 766 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Pogue Press (October 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449316115
- ISBN-13: 978-1449316112
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| iPhone: The Missing Manual, 6th Edition Posted: 08 Nov 2012 03:43 AM PST 
Book Description With the iOS 6 software and the new iPhone 5, Apple has two world-class hits on its hands. This sleek, highly refined pocket computer comes with everything—cellphone, iPod, Internet, camcorder—except a printed manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back with this expanded edition of his witty, full-color guide: the world's most popular iPhone book. The important stuff you need to know: - The iPhone 5. This book unearths all the secrets of the newest iPhone. Taller screen, faster chip, 4G LTE Internet, thinner than ever.
- The iOS 6 software. Older iPhones gain Do Not Disturb, the new Maps app, shared Photo Streams, camera panoramas, smarter Siri, and about 197 more new features. It's all here.
- The apps. That catalog of 750,000 add-on programs makes the iPhone's phone features almost secondary. Now you'll know how to find, manage, and exploit those apps.
The iPhone may be the world's coolest computer, but it's still a computer, with all of a computer's complexities. iPhone: The Missing Manual is a funny, gorgeously illustrated guide to the tips, shortcuts, and workarounds that will turn you, too, into an iPhone addict. Table of Contents
Part I: The iPhone as Phone
Chapter 1. The Guided Tour
Chapter 2. Typing, Editing & Searching
Chapter 3. Phone Calls & FaceTime
Chapter 4. Speech Recognition—and Siri
Chapter 5. Voicemail, Texting & Other Phone Tricks Part II: Pix, Flix & Apps
Chapter 6. The iPhone as iPod
Chapter 7. Camera, Photos & Video
Chapter 8. All About Apps
Chapter 9. The Built-In Apps Part III: The iPhone Online
Chapter 10. Getting Online
Chapter 11. The Web
Chapter 12. Email Part IV: Connections
Chapter 13. Syncing with iTunes
Chapter 14. iCloud
Chapter 15. The Corporate iPhone
Chapter 16. Settings Part V: Appendixes
Appendix A. Signup & Setup
Appendix B. Accessorizing the iPhone
Appendix C. Troubleshooting & Maintenance Book Details - Paperback: 552 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Pogue Press; 6th Edition (October 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449316484
- ISBN-13: 978-1449316488
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