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

The world of Raspberry Pi is evolving quickly, with many new interface boards and software libraries becoming available all the time. In this cookbook, prolific hacker and author Simon Monk provides more than 200 practical recipes for running this tiny low-cost computer with Linux, programming it with Python, and hooking up sensors, motors, and other hardware – including Arduino.

Create innovative programs and fun games on your tiny yet powerful Raspberry Pi. In this book, electronics guru Simon Monk explains the basics of Raspberry Pi application development, while providing hands-on examples and ready-to-use scripts. See how to set up hardware and software, write and debug applications, create user-friendly interfaces, and control external electronics. Do-it-yourself projects include a hangman game, an LED clock, and a software-controlled roving robot.

Clear, easy-to-follow examples show you how to program Arduino with ease! “Programming Arduino: Getting Started with Sketches” helps you understand the software side of Arduino and explains how to write well-crafted Sketches (the name given to Arduino programs) using the C language of Arduino. This practical guide offers an unintimidating, concise approach for non-programmers that will get you up and running right away.

With millions of new users and several new models, the Raspberry Pi ecosystem continues to expand—along with a lot of new questions about the Pi’s capabilities. The second edition of this popular cookbook provides more than 240 hands-on recipes for running this tiny low-cost computer with Linux, programming it with Python, and hooking up sensors, motors, and other hardware—including Arduino and the Internet of Things.

If you’re among the many hobbyists and designers who came to electronics through Arduino and Raspberry Pi, this cookbook will help you learn and apply the basics of electrical engineering without the need for an EE degree. Through a series of practical recipes, you’ll learn how to solve specific problems while diving into as much or as little theory as you’re comfortable with.

Build your own secret laboratory with 30 coding and electronic projects!

“Programming Arduino: Getting Started with Sketches, Second Edition (Tab) 2nd Edition” is all about Arduino models. Simon Monk is the author of this book. Simon Monk has a degree in cybernetics and computer science and a Ph.D. in software engineering. He is also the guy behind the books Programming the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started Python, 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius, Hacking Electronics, and Fritzing for Inventors. In this book, he tells step-by-step, how to quickly program all Arduino models. No prior programming experience is required to understand this book’s concepts. It features easy-to-follow explanations, fun examples, and downloadable sample programs. It enables programmers to discover how to write basic sketches, use Arduino’s modified C language, store data, and interface with the Web. This book also teaches and practices on coverage of C++, library writing, and programming Arduino for the Internet of Things. To sum it up, Programming Arduino by Simon is a must-read book for all Arduino programmers.

The “Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Sixth Edition” is the easiest to follow book about basic electronics. Stan Gibilisco  and Simon Monk are authors of this book. This fully updated guide offers practical, easy-to-follow instruction on electricity and electronics. Written by a pair of experienced instructors, Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Sixth Edition, features plain language explanations and step-by-step lessons that make it easy to understand the material quickly. The 6th edition now includes Audrino hardware and programming, an improved Microcontrollers section, and other updated information of other sections, as well as updated practice tests and exams. If you are out to achieve a good understanding of electricity and electronics or studying for an entrance exam for a technical job position, this book will help you do that. It’s a great book for teaching you the subjects of electricity and electronics, that later tests your knowledge of it. we recommend this updated edition of “Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, 6th edition,” as well as any other Stan Gibilisco and/or Simon Monk book. A lot of good material to refresh one’s electronics knowledge.

“Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition” is an important book to anyone learning electronics or looking to understand theory and parts. Paul Scherz and Simon Monk are the authors of this attractive book. The author explains many many technical things about electronics and electricity. You could spend a long time reading this book and adsorbing useful, albeit somewhat nerdy, knowledge from it. This is a great book, with a lot of extra info, worked into the 4th edition. This is a perfect reference book, period. It has information starting from what electricity is, all the way to multiple circuit diagrams and theories of electricity. Great book on basic electricity and electronics – very informative and excellent introductory source into the field of electronics – both theoretical and with some useful practical examples. It is educative and also a great reference source. It is well written with many details explained in depth. It is like an all-around electronics course in one book. Good balance between applications, technical information, and theory. It can be used as a guide for learning electronics in a practical order helping you learn progressively and decide which areas require more research-based on your goals or interests. All in all, this is an excellent reference for someone who wants a one-stop-shop to review any of the wide variety of topics that are covered. This book does seem to be more focused on the breadth of topics than depth, so it may be more useful to hobbyists than professionals. In either case, the book should be a valuable pickup for anyone in search of a solid overview of electronic circuits.