Review by Faithful Customer
on 2020-03-10
Product: Embedded Linux Primer I couldn’t agree more with other positive comments about the book. I bought the book a few months ago and read it cover-to-cover. I really enjoyed reading it, evenhough some of the information I already know as I am an embedded developer for living for many years. The author packs a lot of information in compact and efficient wording. Plenty of captures from real logs of Linux embedded systems.
Review by Ira Laefsky
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1119188687 Other readers have commented that this book is the most complete user documentation for running and interfacing the Raspberry Pi Microcontroller. That is undoubtedly true. But this handbook is also the most up-to-date and comprehensive guidebook, to Using and Interfacing Embedded Linux Systems regardless of their type; it also is a comprehensive guidebook to Physical Computing going from blinking on-board LED’s, to prototyping GPIO interfaces, connecting your own ADC/DAC and Sensor / Actuator Devices through SPI and I2C.
Review by Ira Laefsky
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1449345379 Matt Richardson a prominent Maker who also wrote the excellent Getting Started manual on Raspberry Pi and is a Masters student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program has prepared an excellent handbook on the powerful Beaglebone (and Beaglebone Black). The Beaglebone most recently released for $45 in the Beaglebone Black model has several advantages over both existing Arduino models and the Raspberry Pi. Like the Pi the Beaglebone runs the powerful Linux operating system on a faster and more powerful processor.
Review by Ivan Popov
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1849694605 Nothing to do with the movie. It is more of a matrix of the ways the Raspy can be used for various networking solutions. All of it is described in the well-known and useful form of recipes in the Rick Golden’s book Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook. Very background-enriching, because it gives advises to people who just bought their first Pis and wonder where to start from. It really is very suitable as the first book to read on the matter.
Review by James B Sloan
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0071807837 Simon Monk writes great books on how to’s for electronics. This is a very good starter book for working with the Raspberry Pi credit card-sized Linux computer. But you kids a Raspberry Pi and this book. You’ll be amazed with what they can do with it. Rating: 5 0071807837 Count: 9
Review by James N. Record
on 2020-03-10
Product: 0071807837 The first eight chapters of ths book basically are just an introduction to Python. They have nothing to do with the Raspberry Pi, any Linux system would do. If the book had just chapters 9, 10, 11 and brief chapters on readily available Python on Linux, and maybe chapter 12, it would have been a better book at half the price. Even better, maybe more RPi Python? Rating: 2 0071807837 Count: 9
Review by Jason Sorensen
on 2020-03-10
Product: 111846446X The book is pretty short but it has a nice preface from the author about how he came up with the Raspberry Pi and brought it to reality. The Pi runs Linux, so if you’re not familiar with the OS, this book will not make you proficient. However, since all Pi are the same hardware, the preconfigured images work and the book will show you how to set that up along with a little introduction to Linux.
Review by JennaSys
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1849694605 Well there was some, albeit practical, nonsense. The author insists that you should have a case for your Raspberry Pi - and I agree. Without one, you are very likely to short the thing out at some point and render it useless. So to that end there is a small section in the book that tells you how to make one. Out of paper. Sweet. The preface clearly states that this book is not aimed at the casual hobbyist or those using the Raspberry Pi as the learning tool that it was intended as.
Review by Jerry Saperstein
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1680451839 Every once in a while, you come across a tech manual that hits it targets perfectly or close to it. This is one of them. Linux for Makers is intended for Makers people creating and inventing things who want to use Single Board Computers (SBCs) in their projects. Raspberry Pi and its brethren sound like a lot of fun until you realize that these little wonders require a lot of computer knowledge before the will do anything.
Review by Jim Fathman
on 2020-03-10
Product: 1118935128 This is the best embedded Linux book available. It sets a new standard. The scope and real world practicality of the coverage is unequaled. I was drawn to the book for it’s embedded Debian Linux on ARM coverage, which is useful for other platforms in addition to the BeagleBone Black. I purchased BBB hardware so I could follow along with the book, and am enjoying that platform which I might not otherwise have explored.