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Author Jason Babler
These days drones are buzzing, not only in the skies, but throughout the maker community! Makers' love affair with drones is easy to understand: it has all the trademarks of the maker movement. From open source hardware, robotics (like sensors), cameras, to innova....
Release Date 2015/03 -
MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol
Author Gastón C. Hillar
Send and receive messages with the MQTT protocol for your IoT solutions.About This BookMake your connected devices less prone to attackers by understanding practical security mechanismsDive deep into one of IoT’s extremely lightweight machines to enable connectivi....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Author Assad Abbas , Samee U. Khan , Albert Y. Zomaya
Summarizes the current state and upcoming trends within the area of fog computingWritten by some of the leading experts in the field, Fog Computing: Theory and Practice focuses on the technological aspects of employing fog computing in various application domains, su....
Release Date 2020/04 -
Author David Lang
Are you possessed by the urge to invent, design, and make something that others enjoy, but don’t know how to plug into the Maker movement? In this book, you’ll follow author David Lang’s headfirst dive into the maker world and how he grew to be a successful entrepre....
Release Date 2013/09 -
The Photographer's Guide to Drones
Author Colin Smith
Consumer drones and quadcopters have become the hottest new gear in photography, whether you’re a professional photographer or an amateur shooter. These “flying tripods” have given photographers the ability to place their cameras virtually anywhere they want,....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Programming PIC Microcontrollers with XC8
Author Armstrong Subero
Learn how to use microcontrollers without all the frills and math. This book uses a practical approach to show you how to develop embedded systems with 8 bit PIC microcontrollers using the XC8 compiler. It's your complete guide to understanding modern PIC microcon....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming: Build Consoles and Arcade Cabinets to Play Your Favorite Classic Games
Author Ryan Bates , Mark Frauenfelder
Learn to configure a Raspberry Pi into multiple different devices capable of playing retro games. Beyond theory, this book focuses heavily on projects—such as making a console to attach to a TV or computer display and making a tabletop arcade machine. It also teach....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Game Programming with Code Angel: Learn how to code in Python on Raspberry Pi or PC
Author Mark Cunningham
Program in Python on a Raspberry Pi or PC by developing six computer games. Each game project is split into several chapters of the book. Rather than taking you through programming techniques as standalone concepts, this book explains concepts as they are used with....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Author David Lang
Zero to Maker is part memoir and part how-to guidebook for anyone who is having thoughts like these:I feel like all I can do is write emails. I wish I had more hands-on skills even though I don't know what I would build...I have this one idea I've always wanted t....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Designing Purpose-Built Drones for Ardupilot Pixhawk 2.1
Author Ty Audronis
Design and build land, air, and sea drones using Ardupilot with Pixhawk 2.1About This BookExplore the best practices used by the top industry professionals that will not only help you build drones in time, but also build effective solutions to cater to.Navigate thr....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide
Author Abhijit Jana
Build motion-sensing applications with Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows SDK quickly and easilyBuilding application using Kinect for Windows SDK.Covers the Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6A practical step-by-step tutorial to make learning easy for a beginner.A detailed disc....
Release Date 2012/12 -
Programming Arduino with LabVIEW
Author Oliver Manickum , Marco Schwartz
Build interactive and fun learning projects with Arduino using LabVIEWIn DetailThis book covers several projects that you can build using LabVIEW and Arduino. You will learn how to use LabVIEW to control your Arduino projects simply by dragging and dropping blocks i....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Itanium Rising: Breaking Through Moore's Second Law of Computing Power
Author Jerry Huck , Jim Carlson
Leveraging the revolutionary power of the Itanium processor family.The Itanium processor family has come of age, giving high-end server and workstation buyers the powerful price/performance benefits that PC buyers have long taken for granted. In Itanium Rising, two ....
Release Date 2002/09 -
Predicting a Future Where the Future is Routinely Predicted
Author Andrew W. Moore
In the near future, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, managers will be alerted to workplace anomalies as soon they occur. Unusual behaviors will be identified in real time by cameras and image-processing software that continuously analyze and comprehen....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Bent Sørensen
Bent Sørensen’s Renewable Energy: Physics, Engineering, Environmental Impacts, Economics and Planning, Fifth Edition, continues the tradition by providing a thorough and current overview of the entire renewable energy sphere. Since its first edition, this standard ....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Aerial Photography and Videography Using Drones
Author Eric Cheng
Inexpensive consumer drones that offer ease of flight and high-quality photography and videography have exploded on the market recently, creating what can only be described as drone mania amongst a diverse range of potential users. Because camera-carrying drones st....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Author Michael Miller
The perfect book to help anyone 50+ get the most out of the Internet--safely and securely!My Internet for Seniors helps you quickly and easily get online and start using everything the Internet has to offer. With step-by-step tasks, large text, close-up screen shot....
Release Date 2016/02 -
Family Wealth Management: Seven Imperatives for Successful Investing in the New World Order
Author Tom McCullough , Mark Haynes Daniell
Introducing a fresh perspective on wealth management, with proven solutions to the challenges of preserving wealth and investing well in turbulent timesFamily Wealth Management is coauthored by two experts in the field of private wealth - one, a former director of B....
Release Date 2013/11 -
Author Gareth Conner
Scenic automation has earned a reputation of being complicated and cantankerous, a craft best left to the elite of our industry. Not sure of the difference between a VFD, PLC, or PID? If you have dreamed of choreographing scene changes with computerized machinery, ....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming: Covers x86 64-bit, AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512
Author Daniel Kusswurm
Gain the fundamentals of x86 64-bit assembly language programming and focus onthe updated aspects of the x86 instruction set that are most relevant to applicationsoftware development. This book covers topics including x86 64-bit programming andAdvanced Vector Exten....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Author Ioana Culic , Alexandru Radovici , Cristian Rusu
Use the Raspberry Pi and modern computing techniques to build industrial Internet of Things systems. Principles and theoretical aspects of IoT technologies combine with hands-on projects leading to detailed descriptions of several industrial IoT applications. This bo....
Release Date 2020/04 -
Learn Robotics with Raspberry Pi
Author Matt Timmons-Brown
Learn Robotics with Raspberry Pi will take you from inexperienced maker to robot builder. You’ll start off building a two-wheeled robot powered by a Raspberry Pi minicomputer and then program it using Python, the world’s most popular programming language. Gradually....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Getting Started With Raspberry Pi, 3rd Edition
Author Matt Richardson , Shawn Wallace
This book takes you step-by-step through many fun and educational possibilities. Take advantage of several preloaded programming languages. Use the Raspberry Pi with Arduino. Create Internet-connected projects. Play with multimedia. With Raspberry Pi, you can do al....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Architecting the Industrial Internet
Author Carla Romano , Robert Stackowiak , Shyam Nath
Learn the ins and outs of the Industrial Internet of Things through subjects ranging from its history and evolution, right up to what the future holds.About This BookDefine solutions that can connect existing systems and newer cloud-based solutions to thousands of ....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Author John Zog , M.J. Moye , Kenneth W. GRONBACH
Demographics not only define who we are, where we live, and how our numbers change, but—for those who can read beyond the raw figures—they open up hidden business opportunities that lie ahead.What will happen when retiring Boomers free up jobs? How will Generation ....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Practical Reverse Engineering: x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation
Author Sébastien Josse , Elias Bachaalany , Alexandre Gazet , Bruce Dang
Analyzing how hacks are done, so as to stop them in the futureReverse engineering is the process of analyzing hardware or software and understanding it, without having access to the source code or design documents. Hackers are able to reverse engineer systems and ex....
Release Date 2014/02 -
Carbon Nanomaterials for Bioimaging, Bioanalysis, and Therapy
Author Xueji Zhang , Haifeng Dong , Huang-Cheng Chang , Yuen Y. Hui
A comprehensive reference on biochemistry, bioimaging, bioanalysis, and therapeutic applications of carbon nanomaterialsCarbon nanomaterials have been widely applied for biomedical applications in the past few decades, because of their unique physical properties, v....
Release Date 2019/01 -
A Practical Introduction to Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems
Author Fernando Boavida , Jorge Sá Silva , David Nunes
The first book focusing on one of the hottest new topics in Internet of Things systems research and developmentStudies estimate that by 2020 we will have a vast Internet of Things (IoT) network comprising 26 billion connected devices, including everything from ligh....
Release Date 2018/02