Make: Getting Started with littleBits: Prototyping and Inventing with Modular Electronics

Bdeir, Ayah Richardson, Matt

ISBN 10: 1457186705 / ISBN 13: 9781457186707

Published by Maker Media, Inc, 2015

About this Item

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2015.* Publisher: Maker Media.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a keyboard project. No bumps or rubs, shelf wear or reading creases to spine, none to hinge. Seems little used if at all. In clear wrap around protective jacket. FINE.* Contents condition: An ex-library copy with the usual neat stamps and labels. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Col B/w photos to every page throughout. * Pages: xxx pp. text. xx pp. index & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- LittleBits is the award-winning modular electronics platform that has put the power of electronics in the hands of everyone. Just snap them together ? no soldering, programming or wiring needed. No matter your age, gender or technical ability, whether you're a young maker, an analog musician, an interaction designer, ora STEM/STEAM teacher, LittleBits is the easiest way to learn and invent with electronics.* This is a NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. with some library stamps and labels reducing it to VG++.* 2015-04-30.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Make: Getting Started with littleBits: Prototyping and Inventing with Modular Electronics
• Publisher: Maker Media, Inc
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1457186705
• ISBN 13: 9781457186707
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: y 1st Edn. 1st Imp.
• Condition: VG++/F/ND
• Seller catalogs:
  • Reference
  • Electronics

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Synopsis

littleBits are electronic building blocks with over 60 modules and trillions of combinations. With littleBits, anyone can harness the power of electronics, microcontrollers, and the cloud--regardless of age, gender, technical ability, or educational background. You can combine these simple, snap-together, magnetic bricks to make simple electronic circuits, or build robots and devices that combine sensors, microcontrollers, and cloud connectivity. This book, co-authored by littleBits founder Ayah Bdeir, along with top-selling author Matt Richardson (Getting Started with Raspberry Pi), teaches you just enough electronics to start making things with littleBits and takes you on up through connecting littleBits to the cloud and programming with its Arduino-compatible module.

About the Authors

Ayah Bdeir is the founder and CEO of littleBits, an award-winning library of electronics dubbed "LEGOs for the iPad generation." Bdeir is an engineer, interactive artist and one of the leaders of the open source hardware movement. Bdeir's career and education have centered on advancing open source hardware to make education and innovation more accessible to people around the world. She is a co-founder of the Open Hardware Summit, a TED Senior Fellow and an alumna of the MIT Media Lab. Bdeir was named one of Inc. Magazine's 35 Under 35, one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business and one of Popular Mechanics 25 Makers Who Are Reinventing the American Dream. littleBits was named as one of CNN's top 10 Emerging Startups to watch. Originally from Lebanon and Canada, Ayah lives in New York City.

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and contributing editor to Make: Magazine. He's the owner of Awesome Button Studios, a consultancy focused on blending creativity and technology. After graduating with a Master's from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in 2013, he continued his work there as a resident research fellow. Matt is the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone and Getting Started with Intel Galileo.