Nuts and Volts - May 2010

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BOOK & KIT COMBOS THE EVIL GENIUS SERIES

From the Smiley Workshop C Programming for Microcontrollers by Joe Pardue

Kit $66.95

Do you want a low cost way to learn C programming for microcontrollers? This 300 page book and software CD show you how to use ATMEL’s AVR Butterfly board and the FREE WinAVR C compiler to make a very inexpensive system for using C to develop microcontroller projects.

Book $44.95

Combo Price $99.95 Plus S/H

Virtual Serial Port Cookbook by Joe Pardue As talked about in the Nuts & Volts June issue “Long Live The Serial Port”

Kit $69.95

This is a cookbook for communicating between a PC and a microcontroller using the FTDI FT232R USB UART IC. The book has lots of software and hardware examples. The code is in C# and Visual Basic Express allowing you to build graphical user interfaces and add serial port functions to create communications programs.

Book $44.95

The Virtual Serial Port Combo Reg. Price 114.95 Subscriber Price $109.95 Plus S/H

From the Smiley Workshop An Arduino Workshop by Joe Pardue

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The book An Arduino Workshop and the associated hardware projects kit bring all the pieces of the puzzle together in one place. With this, you will learn to: Blink 8 LEDs (Cylon Eyes); Read a pushbutton and 8-bit DIP switch; Sense Voltage, Light, and Temperature; Make Music on a piezo element; Sense edges and gray levels; Optically isolate voltages; Fade an LED with PWM; Control Motor Speed; and more! An Arduino Workshop Combo Reg. Price 124.95 Subscriber Price $119.95 Plus S/H

The Getting Started Combo includes: Getting Started in Electronics by author Forrest Mims and the DIY Electronics Kit. In his book, Mims teaches you the basics and takes you on a tour of analog and digital components. He explains how they work and shows you how they can be combined for various applications. The DIY Electronics Kit allows for the hands-on experience of putting circuits together — the kit has over 130 parts! No soldering is required and it includes its own 32 page illustrated manual. Combo Price $62.95 Plus S/H

This great little book is a concise all-purpose reference featuring hundreds of tables, maps, formulas, constants, and conversions. AND it still fits in your shirt pocket!