title: Arduino Robotics (Technology in Action)
author:  John-David Warren 
description: JD is an electronics hobbyist, builder, and relentless tinkerer. As a child, he took apart everything he owned to figure out how it worked. Since then he has built many different projects ranging from anelectric fishing pole to a remote-controlled lawn mower, which was featured on the cover of MAKE magazine in April 2010. Having worked as a builder doing carpentry, plumbing, and electrical work for 8 years, his knowledge is founded in real world experience rather than textbook recitation. In addition to building robots and remote controlled toys, he enjoys automating everyday tasks, blinking LEDs, designing and etching PCBs, and lots of random things in between. Much of his time has been spent researching, building, and testing various motor-controllers to make his bots move. As a self-proclaimed poor man's roboticist, he will always try to find the cheapest way to do something usually by building it himself. JD graduated from the University of Alabama in Birmingham with a degree in Business Management. He currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his beautiful wife Melissa and their growing flock of animals.
zlib_text: Make:
  Action
  Movement, Light, and Sound with 
  Arduino and Raspberry Pi
  Simon Monk
  
  Technology & Engineering / Robotics
  US  $34.99   CAN  $40.99
  ISBN: 978-1-4571-8779-7
  Make: Action
   In Make: Action, you'll learn to:
  Beginning with the basics and moving gradually to greater challenges, this 
  book takes you step-by-step through experiments and projects that show 
  you how to make your Arduino or Raspberry Pi create and control movement, 
  light, and sound. In other words: action!
  The Arduino is a simple microcontroller with an easy-to-learn programming 
  environment, while the Raspberry Pi is a tiny Linux-based computer. This 
  book clearly explains the differences between the Arduino and Raspberry Pi, 
  when to use them, and to which purposes each are best suited.
  Using these widely available and inexpensive platforms, you'll learn to control 
  LEDs, motors of various types, solenoids, AC (alternating current) devices, 
  heaters, coolers, displays, and sound. You’ll even discover how to monito