10 LED Projects for Geeks: Build Light-Up Costumes, Sci-Fi Gadgets, and Other Clever Inventions

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10 LED Projects for Geeks: Build Light-Up Costumes, Sci-Fi Gadgets, and Other Clever Inventions — page 1 — abOut the cOntributOrS john Baichtal has written or edited over a dozen books including the award-winning The Cult of LEGO No Starch Press 2011 LEGO hacker bible Make LEGO and Arduino Projects Maker Media 2012 with Adam Wolf and Matthew Beckler as well as Robot Builder Que 2013 and Hacking Your LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Kit Que 2015 John lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three children kaas Baichtal became interested in computers and electronics around age 12 taking every available electronics class As a technician Kaas worked mostly in the entertainment industry doing equipment repairs and travelling system installs for theatrical dimmer manufacturers AVAB America and Electronic Theatre Controls ETC and multimedia integrator BBI Engineering Kaas has run her own servers at home since 1998 and specializes in writing custom code to solve real-life problems matthew Beckler is a computer engineer who lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two cats His day job usually consists of writing firmware for fancy microcontrollers and he is a co-founder and engineer at a fun side-hustle called Wayne and Layne where he and Adam Wolf design and sell electronic kits and help create interactive museum and art exhibits He holds a BS in computer engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MS and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University kristina Durivage is an independent software developer by day and a hardware hacker by night specializing in data visualization and making the world a brighter place with LEDs Her work is collected at http portfolio gelicia com and her opinions and cat pictures can be found on Twitter gelicia lenore m edman is a co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories a family-run company that designs produces and sells hobby electronics kits drawing machines and retrotechnological objects She writes for the accompanying project blog on the topics of electronics crafts cooking science robotics and anything else that catches her fancy Many of the blog’s projects have been featured at science and art museums and in Make Wired and Popular Science magazines She holds a BA in interdisciplinary studies English and Greek mike hord has been working at SparkFun Electronics designing products and projects for makers for several years His making skills run the gamut from metalworking woodworking and 3D printing to coding and circuit design When not creating his next Big Hack he’s raising two small children to question the veracity of everything except the need for toothbrushing

10 LED Projects for Geeks: Build Light-Up Costumes, Sci-Fi Gadgets, and Other Clever Inventions

10 LED Projects for Geeks: Build Light-Up Costumes, Sci-Fi Gadgets, and Other Clever Inventions

10 LED Projects for Geeks is a collection of interactive and customizable projects using LEDs.

About This Book

By: John Baichtal

Illustrated by:

Published by: No Starch Press

9-12Age Range

- AR

225Pages

Arts, Crafts, DIYSubject

-Lexile

3-4 hoursReading Time

-Guided Reading

-Fountas & Pinnell

-DRA

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