Nuts and Volts - July 2010

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BOOK & KIT COMBOS

From the Smiley Workshop An Arduino Workshop

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’s Price $119.95 Plus S/H

From the Smiley Workshop C Programming for Microcontrollers by Joe Pardue

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 Kit $66.95

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’s Price $109.95 Plus S/H

THE EVIL GENIUS SERIES

This lab — from the good people at GSS Tech Ed — will show you 40 of the most simple and interesting experiments and lessons you have ever seen on a solderless circuit board. As you do each experiment, you learn how basic components work in a circuit. Along with the purchase of the lab, you will receive a special password to access the fantastic online interactive software to help you fully understand all the electronic principles. For a complete product description and sample software, please visit our webstore.

Reg. Price $79.95 Subscriber’s Price $75.95

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!