What is your favorite electronics or software book?

Thank you Carlo,

Don't miss the next workshop Codename: Nanodrone II celebrating Arduino Day 2021!

Cheers

Enrico

A son to be proud of!

Really cool, much respect :-)

Frank,

Here is a picture of the two channel detector board (I don't seem to have any of the 5 channel beasts left).  This was actually on of my first boards to design/layout/build (as I working at a startup and we had to wear many hats).  We were needing a lot more performance than the Ocean Optics Spectrometers could provide, so we built our own. I was a very fun project that required me to learn a lot (DSP, CPLD, USB, etc.).

Gene

Frank,

I do not actively market these devices any longer.  Due to their age (more than 15 years old), most of the parts are obsolete and unavailable.  The last couple of units that I sent out were refurbished from prototypes or other returns, etc.

The units were very high speed for spectrometers, 20M samples per second (total) or 4M samples per second per unit (5 units per board).  The spectrometers themselves were manufactured by another supplier and were based on some nice Hamamatsu CCD (2048 elements).  The target market for these boards were for super low volume chromatography systems.

Gene

Gene,

I am curious about your products :-)  Do you have a web page or online store?

Frank

I think that, as far as computer science is concerned, the books that have most involved me are those of Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum.

Books like: Computer Networks and Modern Operating Systems have been for me not only sources of technical knowledge but also fun to read.

As for magazines, in Italy when I was a boy I bought Nuova Elettronica and I made many circuits: those were the times of the ua741, of the NE555, and of the printed circuits made with nail polish ...

I also point out the book Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino by Enrico Miglino (balearicdynamics ).

I got the chance to appreciate his work in a series of webinar (Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary , etc.).

In times of the Internet and Youtube tutorials, Enrico has made a very interesting and engaging work. Each project is explained in detail and in every aspect, from the mechanics to the electronics to the code used, truly a beautiful job! Very interesting book!

Greetings

Carlo

I started with the 'Serial Port Complete' book and moved up to the USB book when I built a multi-channel data acquisition system to read/control up to 10 Spectrophotometers. After that I developed a line of USB based instruments (some of which I still get orders for).  Both of these books were well written and highly informative.

"...USB Complete by Jan Axelson..."

I've got a copy of 'Serial Port Complete' by Jan Axelson. I guess I'm a bit behind...

Probably my most used book in the last 10 years is "The Definitive Guide To The ARM Cortex-M3" by Joseph Yiu.  I've got the second edition, one of my colleagues has a slightly newer version which covers the M4 extensions.  I do a lot of work with STM32s and FreeRTOS and knowing how the underlying hardware is meant to work has really helped in debug and writing good fault handlers.  It's such a well written book I was able to just read it through the first time which is quite unusual for this kind of technical book.  Now I just dip in where I need to.