Maker Media Inc: 119 books
Design for 3D Printing
Scanning, Creating, Editing, Remixing, and Making in Three Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
France's Le FabShop has extensive experience testing 3D printers and creating digital models for them. From an articulated Makey Robot to a posable elephant model, Samuel N. Bernier and the rest of Le FabShop's team have created some of the most-printed designs in the 3D printing world. This book...
Vintage Tomorrows
A Historian And A Futurist Journey Through Steampunk Into The Future of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
What would today’s technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? That’s the world steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions powered by steam and driven by gears. In this book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott...
Best of Make: Volume 2
65 Projects and Skill Builders from the Pages of Make:
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
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 from the magazine. Find out what keeps...
Make: Lego and Arduino Projects
Projects for extending MINDSTORMS NXT with open-source electronics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Make amazing robots and gadgets with two of today’s hottest DIY technologies. With this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll learn how to build devices with Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0, the Arduino prototyping platform, and some add-on components to bridge the two. Mindstorms alone lets you create incredible...
Make It Glow
LED Projects for the Whole Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Everyone loves to play with light and this collection of kid-ready LED projects will have young Makers exploring electricity and electronics while opening up a world of endless fun! Makers, tinkerers, hobbyists, and parents will be drawn to the decorative and exciting possibilities of the projects...
The Makerspace Workbench
Tools, Technologies, and Techniques for Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Create a dynamic space for designing and building DIY electronic hardware, programming, and manufacturing projects. With this illustrated guide, you’ll learn the benefits of having a Makerspace—a shared space with a set of shared tools—that attracts fellow makers and gives you more resources...
MintDuino
Building an Arduino-Compatible Breadboard Microcontroller
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Get started with MintDuino, the Maker Shed kit that's perfect for learning or teaching the fundamentals of how microcontrollers work. This hands-on book shows you how to build a complete MintDuino project from start to finish. Learn how to assemble the microcontroller on a breadboard (no soldering...
Getting Started with Arduino
The Open Source Electronics Prototyping Platform
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Arduino is the open source electronics prototyping platform that has taken the Maker Movement by storm. This thorough introduction, updated for the latest Arduino release, helps you start prototyping right away. From obtaining the required components to putting the final touches on your project, all...
Getting Started with the Photon
Making Things with the Affordable, Compact, Hackable WiFi Module
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The Photon is an open source, inexpensive, programmable, WiFi-enabled module for building connected projects and prototypes. Powered by an ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller and a Broadcom WiFi chip, the Photon is just as happy plugged into a hobbyist's breadboard as it is into a product rolling off of...
Getting Started with Intel Edison
Sensors, Actuators, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi on the Tiny Atom-Powered Linux Module
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The Intel Edison is a crowning achievement of Intel's adaptation of its technology into maker-friendly products. They've packed the dual-core power of the Atom CPU, combined it with a sideboard microcontroller brain, and added in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy, and a generous amount of RAM (1GB) and...
Raspberry Pi and AVR Projects
Augmenting the Pi's ARM with the Atmel ATmega, ICs, and Sensors
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
As an incredibly cheap, credit-card sized computer, the Raspberry Pi is breaking down barriers by encouraging people of all ages to experiment with code and build new systems and objects; and this book provides readers with inspiring and insightful examples to explore and build upon. Written for intermediate...
The Best of Make:
75 Projects from the Pages of Make
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
After two years, MAKE has become one of most celebrated new magazines to hit the newsstands, and certainly one of the hottest reads. If you're just catching on to the MAKE phenomenon and wonder what you've missed, this book contains the best DIY projects from the magazine's first ten volumes -- a...
by Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Build a PC that will outperform any brand-name box on the market
Yes, even if you’re not a total geek you can build your own PC -- and we guarantee it’s worth the effort. You’ll discover that the quality is better and the cost is much lower than any comparable off-the-shelf PC you can...
JavaScript Robotics
Building NodeBots with Johnny-Five, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and BeagleBone
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
JavaScript Robotics is on the rise. Rick Waldron, the lead author of this book and creator of the Johnny-Five platform, is at the forefront of this movement. Johnny-Five is an open source JavaScript Arduino programming framework for robotics. This book brings together fifteen innovative programmers,...