Have you published your own book(s) or had your content published in one?

I saw your book on Amazon Workshopshed .    I seem to recall from the portable ZX Spectrum giveway back in the day, you publishing something about the ZX Spectrum so tried to look it up.

No but I released a record https://soundcloud.com/sid-barco/making-waves-pad-panic

Lot of energy!   Listening now!

First song has almost an 80s glam rock / Pixies vibe to it.   Next song is a Sisters of Mercy tune!

Love it!

tariq.ahmad  wrote:

 

...  Next song ...

It's only  the first song. It's not my soundcloud page

Ah, enjoyed both tunes in that case.   :-)

When I was coding on the spectrum my focus was about the making games, never wrote that up as a book though.

Which projects are those?

Well, the most recent things are from 2020.

Respectively in February and May 2020 for the Italian publisher Ulrico Hoeply in Milan, I published (in Italian language only) the two books below, also available on Amazon, as well as in the Italian bookshops:

The Amazon links of these books are the following:

https://www.amazon.com/Progetti-Maker-Raspberry-dallideazione-realizzazione-ebook/dp/B0891LWWMB/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keyw…

https://www.amazon.com/Progetti-maker-Arduino-completa-realizzazione-ebook/dp/B084KSDBGW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=pr…

I have tried to write something helpful, where projects details and information are accompanied by a considerable number of appendixes covering topics on technologies and methods useful for makers on both Arduino and Raspberry Pi platform. Another nice content of this work is the chapters including interviews with some contributors, representing, in my opinion, some of the most important references for the Makers' community: interviews to Rob Zwetsloot publisher of the popular MagPi magazine, e14phil (Phil Hutchinson), rscasny (Randy Scasny) the pulsating heart of the Element14 Road Tests, Monica Huston founder of the Hackster.io community, Cristina Ciocci the mind behind Ingegno Maker Space and many other STEM and makers initiatives in Belgium, Marco Giorgini that is one of the oldest (not like me ) creative makers and underground editors in Italy, tariq.ahmad (Tariq Ahmad) who manages the fast-growing section of Project14.

Published for the Spanish Ediciones Baleares in January 2021 this is the third work of 2020, finished writing in November. Also with a strong STEM orientation, it is entirely dedicated to the vintage upcycling, obviously involving electronics and my two favourite boards: Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Some of the projects have already been published in The Shed magazine and others in the Project14 section. This project has been possible thanks to the sponsorship and support of Altium Designer, Element14, The Shed magazine and Elegoo.

The book, in electronic and paperback format, is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Upcycling-Raspberry-Pi-Arduino-ebook/dp/B08RJ85SQ1/ref=sr_1_5?crid=YBLHGE6WG56K&dchild=1&…

With the preface of Greg Vincent (publisher of The Shed magazine, NZ) with a nice introduction of tariq.ahmad (Tariq Ahmad) the book has been sent for free to the participants of the Vintage Upcycling workshop series coordinated by Project14 on Element.com

Entirely dedicated to the Nanodrone II project this boow will be published celebrating the Arduino Day 2021. The Nanodrone project workshop introduction scheduled for the next Arduino Day (March, 27th) is open for subscriptions on the Project14 are. Through this real-world, complex project, I will explore many different topics – from GPS data to computer vision, from LoRa technology to AWS IoT Core – and different boards integration: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Cypress PSoC. I should thank the supporters and sponsors – Cypress, Altium, Element14, Elegoo – but also the priceless help and support of Tariq Ahmad (not, I don't mention the link three times in the same post ) with whom I spent hours of video meetings to plan and shape the initiative.

This book is the official textbook of the IT4 - Nanodrone II course of 2021 Fabzero project, financed by the Digital Belgium Fund initiative and created by De Creatieve STEM and Ingegno Maker Space, another winning idea of Cristina Ciocci. All the members that will register to the Project14 workshop Battle of the Dones will also receive a 50% discounted bonus code for the online course of Fabzero.

Touch sensing monkey skull, mechanical music box with a dual 555 timer, AI squirting flower, metal box, radio controlled knife switch, faux Neon sign using El wires.

DAB I'd be interested in seeing them, you're welcome to send me links!