This hands-on guide will teach you all you need to know to bring your electronic inventions to life!

This fully updated guide shows, step-by-step, how to disassemble, tweak, and re-purpose everyday devices for use in your own electronics creations. Written in the clear, easy-to-follow style that Dr. Simon Monk is famous for, this expanded edition includes coverage of both Arduino AND Raspberry Pi.

Hacking Electronics: Learning Electronics with Arduino and Raspberry Pi, Second Edition, demonstrates each technique through fun DIY projects. Packed with full-color illustrations, photos, and diagrams, the book gets you up and running on your own projects right away. You will discover how to hack sensors, accelerometers, remote controllers, ultrasonic rangefinders, motors, stereo equipment, FM transmitters, and more.

• Contains start-to-finish hacks for both Arduino AND Raspberry Pi!

• Features new coverage of ready-made modules available online

• Offers tips on working with Simon’s hacking electronics kit

A fully updated guide to quickly and easily programming Arduino

Thoroughly revised for the new Arduino Uno R3, this bestselling guide explains how to write well-crafted sketches using Arduino’s modified C language. You will learn how to configure hardware and software, develop your own sketches, work with built-in and custom Arduino libraries, and explore the Internet of Things—all with no prior programming experience required!

Electronics guru Simon Monk gets you up to speed quickly, teaching all concepts and syntax through simple language and clear instruction designed for absolute beginners. Programming Arduino: Getting Started with Sketches, Second Edition, features dozens of easy-to-follow examples and high-quality illustrations. All of the sample sketches featured in the book can be used as-is or modified to suit your needs.

• An all-new chapter teaches programming Arduino for Internet of Things projects
• Screenshots, diagrams, and source code illustrate each technique
• All sample programs in the book are available for download

• 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

With millions of new users and several new models, the Raspberry Pi ecosystem continues to expand—along with many new questions about the Pi’s capabilities. The third edition of this popular cookbook provides more than 200 hands-on recipes that show you how to run this tiny low-cost computer with Linux; program it with Python; hook it up to sensors, motors, and Arduino boards; and even use it with the internet of things (IoT).

Prolific hacker and author Simon Monk also teaches basic principles to help you use new technologies with the Raspberry Pi. This cookbook is ideal for programmers and hobbyists familiar with the Pi through resources such as Getting Started with Raspberry Pi (O’Reilly). Code examples from the book are available on GitHub.

• Set up your Raspberry Pi and connect to a network
• Work with its Linux-based operating system
• Program your Raspberry Pi with Python
• Give your Pi "eyes" with computer vision
• Control hardware through the GPIO connector
• Use your Raspberry Pi to run different types of motors
• Work with switches, keypads, and other digital inputs
• Use sensors to measure temperature, light, and distance
• Connect to IoT devices in various ways and automate your home