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Paper is incredible stuff. It's easy to cut, but amazingly strong. It's disposable, but can last for centuries. It can stand as stiff as a board, pop up like a spring, or float like a leaf. And its invention changed the world forever. Perfect for kids, parents, and educators, Make: Paper Inventions is a project-based book with full-color illustrations, step-by-step instructions, supply lists, and templates that enable you to follow along with the book or devise something entirely new. Each chapter features new projects that will challenge and intrigue, from beginners to experienced makers. Learn the history of papermaking and how to use simple STEAM principles to make fun and creative paper inventions of your very own!

Field programmable gate arrays (FGPAs) allow you to use programming to specify the fundamental hardware functionality of a chip just a if you had designed a chip from scratch. Using software, you define the behaviors you want to see, and the FPGA implements your design in its reconfigurable hardware."--Back cover

"While the word "robot" was only invented in 1920, the idea of humans creating something that moves and acts on its own, as if alive, is ancient. Today, robots have gone from being fairly simple things that make us laugh or do things for us, to fascinating machines that can think for themselves, or even become our mechanical friends. And what about tomorrow? No one really knows, but one thing is for certain; for makers in the here and now, the world of robots is wild, wonderful, and ready to be hacked...by you!" -- publisher.

Start your journey into the exciting world of robotics! This accessible guide teaches how to design, build, and control robotic arms. Using simple, affordable parts, readers will learn how to build a robotic arm, control it with an Arduino, and add servos to add degrees of motion for increasingly complex movements. Readers will also learn inverse kinematics, a mathematical process that enables robots to move, lift, and draw with more precision than humans. This is not a book for hardcore engineers, but a beginners guide for makers, teachers, and students with no previous experience required.

Presents instructions for creating and enhancing a variety of household electronic equipment, including a magnetic stripe card reader, a video camera stabilizer, and a glowstick.

This edited book contains invited papers from renowned experts working in the field of Wearable Electronics Sensors. It includes 14 chapters describing recent advancements in the area of Wearable Sensors, Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, Protocols, Topologies, Instrumentation architectures, Measurement techniques, Energy harvesting and scavenging, Signal processing, Design and Prototyping. The book will be useful for engineers, scientist and post-graduate students as a reference book for their research on wearable sensors, devices and technologies which is experiencing a period of rapid growth driven by new applications such as heart rate monitors, smart watches, tracking devices and smart glasses.

Provides step-by-step instructions for building a variety of LEGO Mindstorms NXT and Arduino devices.