My Review of Arduino Cookbook

Originally submitted at O’Reilly

Create your own robots, toys, remote controllers, alarms, detectors, and many other projects with the Arduino device. This simple microcontroller board lets artists and designers build a variety of amazing objects and prototypes that interact with the physical world. With this book, you can dive…

 

The best reference!

By RT from on 4/15/2011

 

 

5out of 5

Pros: Accurate, Complete, Easy to understand, Concise, Helpful examples, Varied, Well-written

Cons: None

Best Uses: Expert, Intermediate, Novice

Describe Yourself: Artist, Designer, Developer

I’m doing a lot of electronics and the Arduino helps me interface the modules with computers and musical instruments. I use the book as a reference to figure better ways to accomplish various tasks. This book is extremely complete, with hundreds of examples (called “recipes”). It covers everything I can think of so far. For example, I was recently looking for an explanation on the use of “prescaler” bits. Sure enough, there was a concise reference to this subject.
I think that this book will be extremely useful for the beginner and intermediate Arduino fan. The experts will also find it invaluable as a reference.
I bought the e-book version.

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