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About the Author

Dr. Simon Monk (Preston, UK) has a degree in Cybernetics and Computer Science and a PhD in Software Engineering. Monk spent several years as an academic before he returned to industry, co-founding the mobile software company Momote Ltd. He has been an active electronics hobbyist since his early teens and is a full-time writer on hobby electronics and open-source hardware. Dr. Monk is the author of numerous electronics books, specializing in open-source hardware platforms, especially Arduino and Raspberry Pi. He is also co-author with Paul Scherz of Practical Electronics for Inventors, 3rd edition. You can follow Simon on Twitter, where he is @simonmonk2.

Hacking Electronics

An Illustrated DIY Guide for Makers and Hobbyists

Simon Monk

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To Roger, for making it possible for me to turn a hobby into an occupation.

Contents at a Glance

Contents

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to all those at McGraw-Hill Education who have done such a great job in producing this book. In particular, thanks to my editor Roger Stewart and to Vastavikta Sharma, Jody McKenzie, Mike McGee, and Claire Splan.

Special thanks are due to Duncan Amos, John Heath, and John Hutchinson for their technical review of the material and encouragement.

And last but not least, thanks once again to Linda, for her patience and generosity in giving me space to do this.

Introduction

This is a book about hacking electronics. It is not a formal, theory-based book about electronics. Its sole aim is to equip the reader with the skills he or she needs to use electronics to make something, whether its starting from scratch, connecting together modules, or adapting existing electronic devices for some new use.

You will learn how to experiment and get your ideas into some kind of order, so that what you make will work. Along the way, youll gain an appreciation for why things work and the limits of what they can do, and learn how to make prototypes on solderless breadboard, how to solder components directly to each other, and how to use stripboard.

You will also learn how to use the popular Arduino microcontroller board, which has become one of the most important tools available to the electronics hacker. There are over 20 examples of how to use an Arduino with electronics in this book.

Electronics has changed. This is a modern book that avoids theory you will likely never use and instead concentrates on how you can build things using readymade modules when they are available. There is, after all, no point in reinventing the wheel.

Some of the things explained and described in the book include

Using LEDs, including high-power Lumileds

Using LiPo battery packs and buck-boost power supply modules

Using sensors to measure light, temperature, vibration, acceleration, sound level, and color

Interfacing with Arduino microcontroller boards, including using Arduino shields such as the Ethernet and LCD display shields

Using servo and stepper motors

Some of the things described in the book that you can make along the way include

A noxious gas detector

An Internet-controlled hacked electric toy

A device for measuring color

An ultrasonic rangefinder

A remote control robotic rover

An accelerometer-based version of the egg and spoon race

A one-watt audio amplifier

A bug made from a hacked MP3 FM transmitter

Working brakes and head lights that can be added to a slot car

You Will Need

This is a very practical, hands-on type of book. You will therefore need some tools and components to get the most out of it.

As far as tools go, you will need little more than a multimeter and soldering equipment.

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