Simon Monk Books

Explore the world of coding and electronics through 30 engaging projects that guide you in creating your own secret laboratory. Each project offers hands-on experience, allowing you to learn essential skills while building fun and innovative devices. Perfect for aspiring inventors, this book combines creativity with technology, making it an exciting resource for anyone interested in STEM.

The revised, corrected, and up-to-date reboot of a comprehensive classic!

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!

A fully updated guide to quickly and easily programming Arduino.

The Photon is an open source, inexpensive, programmable, WiFi-enabled module for building connected projects and prototypes. Powered by an ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller and a Broadcom WiFi chip, the Photon is just as happy plugged into a hobbyist's breadboard as it is into a product rolling off of an assembly line.

"Fully updated coverage of PCB design and construction with EAGLE. This thoroughly revised, easy-to-follow guide shows, step-by-step, how to create your own professional-quality PCBs using the latest versions of EAGLE. Make your own PCBs with Eagle: from schematic designs to finished boards, Second Edition, guides you through the process of a developing a schematic, transforming it into a PCB layout, and submitting Gerber files to a manufacturing service to fabricate your finished board. Four brand-new chapters contain advanced techniques, tips, and features. Downloadable DIY projects include a sound level meter, Arduino shield, Raspberry Pi expansion board, and more!"--Page 4 of cover

Part I: Light and Color§1. Persistence of Vision Display§2. LED Cube§3. High Power LED Controller§4. Color Recognizer§§Part II: Security§5. RFID Door Lock§6. Keypad Door Lock§7. Secret Knock Lock§8. Fake Dog§9. Person Counter§10. Laser Alarm§§Part III: Sound and Music§11. Theramin-like Instrument§12. FM Radio Receiver§13. Pedal Board Controller§14. Music Controller§15. LED Matrix Spectrum Display§§Part IV: Internet§16. Email Notifier§17. Weather Data Feed§18. Network Controlled Switch§19. Network Temperature and Humidity Sensor§20. Pingometer§§Part V. Clocks§21. LED Matrix Clock§22. Binary Clock§23. Seven Segment LED Clock§24. Hacked Analog Clock§25. World Clock§§Part VI. Novelty§26. Larson Scanner§27. Game of Life§28. Singing Plant§29. Ultrasonic Rangefinder§30. GPS§31. Methane Detector§§Part VII. Home§32. Light Level Logger§33. Temperature and Light Logger§34. Timer Controlled Lamp§35. Autoranging Capacitance Meter§36. Geiger Counter§

This book explains how to use the popular IOIO board to make USB connected accessories for your Android phone. Four example projects of varying level of difficulty are included, from a simple movement detecting intruder alarm that will call you when triggered, to a robot phone that uses your phone as the basis for a web-controlled surveillance bot.

The bestselling project-based book for Arduino now covers Arduino Uno and Leonardo!

An up-to-date guide to creating your own fun and useful Raspberry PiTM programs This fully updated guide shows how to create inventive programs and fun games on your powerful Raspberry Pi—with no programming experience required. Programming the Raspberry PiTM: Getting Started with Python, Third Edition addresses physical changes and new setup procedures as well as OS updates to the current version 4. You will discover how to configure hardware and software, write Python scripts, create user-friendly GUIs, and control external electronics. Step-by-step projects include a digital clock prototype and a fully functioning Raspberry Pi robot. Configure your Raspberry Pi and explore its features Start writing and debugging Python programs Use strings, lists, functions, and dictionaries Work with modules, classes, and methods Apply object-oriented development methods Create user-friendly games using Pygame Build intuitive user interfaces with guizero Interface with hardware using the gpiozero library Attach external electronics through the GPIO port Add powerful Web features to your projects