electronic apparatus and appliances

Caveboy Tek is obsessed with his electronic devices and ignores the world around him, until his family and friends hatch a plan to get him to unplug.

Discusses the history of electronic devices and shares a selection of electronics projects that use LEDs and sensors.

The Maker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is the manual you need to survive in the land of the walking dead. In this guide, expert hardware hacker and zombie aficionado Simon Monk starts by teaching you to generate electricity with solar and pedal power. From there, you'll craft essential electronic survival tools from scavenged components, an Arduino, and a Raspberry Pi.

Explains how to design and build fifteen electronics projects from easy-to-find components and equipment, and includes photographs and illustrations.

"Did you know that you can dry out your wet cell phone by putting its parts in separate bowls of uncooked rice? That you can scroll through a website using only your spacebar? That if you type your airline and flight number in to Google, it tells you where your flight is, the gate, terminal, and how long until it lands? When David Pogue gave this kind of advice in the New York Times, his columns were consistently the most e-mailed of the week. When he gave a TED Talk of his tips, 1.3 million people watched it in the first 90 days. Pogue's tips have earned him 1.5 million followers on Twitter. And now that he writes his columns for Yahoo Tech, the audience for this advice has grown by millions more. Here at last is the book all these fans have been waiting for: a book of 200 tips that will change your relationship to your phone, computer, tablet, camera--all of the technology in your life. A layflat format makes this the perfect reference book that you can turn to time and time again to pick up more helpful cheats for all your devices. At last, you can lose the nagging, insecure feeling that you're not the master of your own gadgets; the tech tips in Pogue's Basics are all you need to get by...the shortcuts to a happier technological life"--.

"Students will unlock the mysteries of electronics, sensors, and LEDs with this book as it provides both technical information and step-by-step projects."--Publisher.

Contains illustrated instructions and schematics for more than twenty easy-to-construct electronic gadgets; describes the science and math behind each one; and lists of materials and parts.

Explains the purpose and functions of 150 devices found along highways and roads, near airports, and on utility towers.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that define over three thousand terms related to personal information technology, including home computers, cell phones, MP3s, gaming systems, CD players, and other devices.

Presents fully detailed and diagrammed plans for forty electronic projects that can be made at home for less than one hundred dollars.