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Author Rinie van Est , Lamber Royakkers
A social robot is a robot that interacts and communicates with humans or other autonomous physical agents by following social behaviors and rules attached to its role. We seem to accept the use of robots that perform dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs. But how far do ....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Evolving Infrastructures of the Industrial IoT
Author Mike Barlow
Ambitious plans are underway to create the Industrial Internet, but as this O'Reilly report explains, the attempt to marry the Internet with the world's industrial platforms faces significant challenges that resist easy solutions. This cyber-physical coupling is ....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Author The Editors of Make:
After ten years, Make: has become one of most celebrated magazines to hit the newsstands, and certainly one of the hottest reads. If you're just catching on to the Maker Movement and wonder what you've missed, this book contains the best projects and articles fro....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Learning ROS for Robotics Programming - Second Edition
Author Aaron Martinez , Anil Mahtani , Luis Sánchez Crespo , Enrique Fernández
Your one-stop guide to the Robot Operating SystemAbout This BookModel your robot on a virtual world and learn how to simulate itCreate, visualize, and process Point Cloud informationEasy-to-follow, practical tutorials to program your own robotsWho This Book Is ForIf....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Intel Galileo Networking Cookbook
Author Marco Schwartz
Over 50 recipes that will help you use the Intel Galileo board to build exciting network-connected projectsAbout This BookCreate networking applications using the Intel Galileo boardControl your web-based projects in real time from anywhere in the worldConnect to th....
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Author Tony Olsson
Design, code, and build exciting wearable projects using Arduino toolsAbout This BookDevelop an interactive program using sensors and actuators suitable with wearablesUnderstand wearable programming with the help of hands-on projectsExplore different wearable design....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Energy Storage for Sustainable Microgrid
Author David Wenzhong Gao
Energy Storage for Sustainable Microgrid addresses the issues related to modelling, operation and control, steady-state and dynamic analysis of microgrids with ESS. This book discusses major electricity storage technologies in depth along with their efficiency, lif....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Raspberry Pi Projects For Dummies
Author Brock Craft , Jonathan Evans , Mike Cook
Join the Raspberry revolution with these fun and easy Pi projectsThe Raspberry Pi has opened up a whole new world of innovation for everyone from hardware hackers and programmers to students, hobbyists, engineers, and beyond. Featuring a variety of hands-on projects....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Raspberry Pi For Kids For Dummies
Author Richard Wentk
Getting acquainted with your Raspberry Pi has never been sweeterRaspberry Pi For Kids For Dummies makes it easy for kids to set-up, operate, and troubleshoot like a Pi pro! Introducing you to Pi through a series of entertaining and inspiring projects, this handy, s....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author Mark LaFay
The fast and easy way to pick out, set up, and learn to fly your droneReady to soar into the world of unmanned aircraft? Drones For Dummies introduces you to the fascinating world of UAVs. Written in plain English and brimming with friendly instruction, Drones For ....
Release Date 2015/07 -
3D Printing with Delta Printers
Author Charles Bell
Do you find yourself wondering what the fuss is about a delta 3D printer? Perhaps you’ve decided to buy one but all of your 3D printing friends are busily perfecting their Cartesian printers. Maybe you find yourself stymied by the fact that your delta printer has ve....
Release Date 2015/07 -
People, Processes, Services, and Things
Author Bill Dry , Hazim Dahir
This book guides the reader through the technological advances, business needs, and societal shifts that drive the Internet of Everything (IoE). IoE offers many benefits to industries and organizations that embrace it, but there are real adoption and success b....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Internet of Things with Intel Galileo
Author Miguel de Sousa
Employ the Intel Galileo board to design a world of smarter technology for your homeIn DetailThis book starts by teaching you the essentials of the Intel Galileo board, its components, how to wire it, and how to use it safely. The book will teach you how to use and ....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Arduino Electronics Blueprints
Author Don Wilcher
Make common electronic devices interact with an Arduino board to build amazing out-of-the-box projectsIn DetailArduino is an open source electronics prototyping platform for building a multitude of smart devices and gadgets. Developers can benefit from using Arduino....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author Bent Sørensen
While solar is the fastest-growing energy source in the world, key concerns around solar power’s inherent variability threaten to de-rail that scale-up . Currently, integration of intermittent solar resources into the grid creates added complication to load managem....
Release Date 2015/06 -
The Definitive Guide to ARM® Cortex®-M0 and Cortex-M0+ Processors, 2nd Edition
Author Joseph Yiu
The Definitive Guide to the ARM® Cortex®-M0 and Cortex-M0+ Processors, Second Edition explains the architectures underneath ARM’s Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M0+ processors and their programming techniques. Written by ARM’s Senior Embedded Technology Manager, Joseph Yiu, t....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Evaluating Online Teaching: Implementing Best Practices
Author Ann H. Taylor , B. Jean Mandernach , Thomas J. Tobin
Create a more effective system for evaluating online facultyEvaluating Online Teaching is the first comprehensive book to outline strategies for effectively measuring the quality of online teaching, providing the tools and guidance that faculty members and administ....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Collaborative Internet of Things (C-IoT): for Future Smart Connected Life and Business
Author Kwok Wu , Fawzi Behmann
This book provides a simplified visionary approach about the future direction of IoT, addressing its wide-scale adoption in many markets, its interception with advanced technology, the explosive growth in data, and the emergence of data analytics. IoT business appl....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Embedded Firmware Solutions: Development Best Practices for the Internet of Th ings
Author Vincent Zimmer , Stefan Reinauer , Marc Jones , Jiming Sun
Embedded Firmware Solutions is the perfect introduction and daily-use field guide--for the thousands of firmware designers, hardware engineers, architects, managers, and developers--to Intel’s new firmware direction (including Quark coverage), showing how to integr....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Opportunities and Challenges in the IoT
Author Cory Doctorow , Tim O'Reilly
In this transcript from O'Reilly's IoT Profiles video series, Tim O'Reilly and Cory Doctorow discuss the opportunities and challenges that the Internet of Things is bringing to our lives. This excerpt from the hour-long Google Hangout on Air begins about halfway....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author Ryad El-Dajani
Over 25 recipes to build projects and applications for multiple platforms with Banana PiDesign, develop, and customize real-world applications and projects rapidly and easily using Banana PiQuick solutions to the most common real-world problems on the amazing Banana....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials
Author Richard Grimmett
Harness the power of Raspberry Pi with Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) to create an amazing walking robotIn DetailThe Raspberry Pi B2 is an inexpensive embedded processor that provides a high-performance Linux development environment.This book is a fast-paced guide th....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author Daniel Blair
Unleash the power of Banana Pi and use it for home automation, games, and various practical applicationsUsing Banana Pi, learn how to install and build basic projects from start to endLearn all the fundamentals and uses of Banana Pi to build projects in a short amou....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Author Becky Stewart
Arduino programming for the absolute beginner, with project-based learningAdventures in Arduino is the beginner's guide to Arduino programming, designed specifically for 11-to 15-year olds who want to learn about Arduino, but don't know where to begin. Starting wi....
Release Date 2015/05 -
A Higher Bid: How to Transform Special Event Fundraising with Strategic Auctions
Author Kathy Kingston
Transform fundraising events into long-term revenue with expert auction adviceA Higher Bid is the nonprofit school and organization guide to planning and executing more exciting, more lucrative special event fundraisers. In this book, award-winning consultant, fund....
Release Date 2015/05 -
The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech
Author Joan Horvath , Rich Cameron
The New Shop Class connects the worlds of the maker and hacker with that of the scientist and engineer. If you are a parent or educator or a budding maker yourself, and you feel overwhelmed with all of the possible technologies, this book will get you started with c....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Life: Sustainable, Programmable, Bottom-Up Manufacturing
Author Andrew Hessel
The future of manufacturing will be self-assembling products. It is said that life is nanotechnology that works—matter assemblers that are not theoretical. Long before industrial revolution, the assembly line, and mass-manufacturing, there were living systems. They....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Learning Robotics Using Python
Author Lentin Joseph
Design, simulate, program, and prototype an interactive autonomous mobile robot from scratch with the help of Python, ROS, and Open-CV!In DetailLearning about robotics will become an increasingly essential skill as it becomes a ubiquitous part of life. Even though r....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Raspberry Pi Computer Vision Programming
Author Ashwin Pajankar
Design and implement your own computer vision applications with the Raspberry PiIn DetailThis book will provide you with the skills you need to successfully design and implement your own Raspberry Pi and Python-based computer vision projects.From the beginning, this....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Non Conventional Energy Resources
Author Sobh Nath Singh
With energy sustainability at the forefront of public discussion worldwide, there is a vital requirement to foster an understanding of safe alternative sources of energy such as solar and wind power. Tailored to the requirements of undergraduate students of engi....
Release Date 2015/05