Description
Up-to-date hacks with the intention to breathe life into your Arduino and Raspberry Pi creations!
This intuitive DIY guide shows the way to wire, disassemble, tweak, and re-purpose household devices and integrate them together with your Raspberry Pi and Arduino inventions. Packed with full-color illustrations, photos, and diagrams, Hacking Electronics: Learning Electronics with Arduino and Raspberry Pi, Second Edition, features fun, simple-to-follow projects. You’ll discover the way to build an Web-controlled hacked electric toy, ultrasonic rangefinder, remote-controlled robotic rover, audio amp, slot car brakes and headlights―even a smart card reader!
• Rise up and running on both Arduino and Raspberry Pi
• Safely solder, sign up for wires, and connect switches
• Identify components and read schematic diagrams
• Work with LEDs, including high-power Lumileds and addressable LED strips
• Use LiPo batteries, solar panels, and buck-spice up power supplies
• Use sensors to measure light, temperature, acceleration, sound level, and color
• Build and modify audio amps, microphones, and transmitters
• Repair gadgets and scavenge useful parts from dead equipment
• Get probably the most out of inexpensive or free bench and software tools