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Announcing a News for the Pi Day

balearicdynamics

A Pi-Day News I hope will be appreciated

(by all the Italian language users of the community)

 

Today, 3,14 2020 I am proud to announce that the new book "Progetti per Maker con Raspberry Pi" has been passed for the press to my publisher Ulrico Hoepli.

The book will be available soon on the Italian libraries and on Amazon.

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The book includes many Raspberry Pi projects into the first part along a path from easy to complex: the Pi Scope, Pi Cade, Pi Vision, Pi Rotary, Pi Cluster. The second part, instead, explores all the projects I had to integrate using the Pi to create Seven of Nine, the borg that characterized the Art-a-Tronic interactive event during the past Pi Casso Challenge.

This book, together with the first volume already published titled "Progetti per maker con Arduino" and available online on Amazon and on the Italian booksellers, is not only a collection of how-to projects but aims to give support and a series of useful references for makers: from the essential maker lab to the best components to store at home.

You will also enjoy many contributions by Rob Zewtsloot (Raspberry Pi Foundation), Monica Houston (founder of Hackster.io), , and more.

 

Credits

The list of people I should thank to make possible these two works is long, but a special thank goes to Rob and the Pi Foundation as well as Phil, Randy, and the other Element14 Community managers that provided me a bunch of Raspberry Pi 4 very early before the mass market distribution of the new model, making possible to actualize the book content to the Raspberry Pi 4B with some projects dedicated to this new model.

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    Enrico,

     

    My first two books were published many years ago when I was keen and enthusiastic. They are both based on the 8088/6 microprocessor so really out of date now. Still, I was and am very proud of them. I was 'sold' twice to different publishers during the period between starting and completing.

     

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    I had planned to write books as my retirement activity but sadly, due to the internet, the demand for paper published technical books seems to have virtually disappeared in the UK. Plus, in the end, I just couldn't be bothered with all the hard work.

     

    Dubbie

  • in reply to dubbie

    Thank you Dubbie! Very appreciated. I have no idea if the publisher plan to publish a translatrion and – as you know what does it means to write a 350 page book – consider that this is the second volume as the first dedicated to Arduino (I plan to notice it on the Arduino side of E14) is another 250 pages. I got a copy only yesterday. The translation was almost well done. I experience that it is easier for GTranslate to make one direction than the other.

     

    BTW, on the site we-are-borg.com there is a special section (The top rightmost "..." menu) with data and details of the projects included in the book.

     

    Enrico

     

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  • Enrico

     

    Congratulations. I know from experience how much effort and time goes into writing a book and getting it published. However, not speaking Italian I will not be purchasing a copy. Do you think there might be a Google translation one day? That would be a fun read.

     

    Dubbie

     

    PS Google: English to Italian

     

    Enrico

    Congratulazioni. So per esperienza quanti sforzi e tempo impiegano a scrivere un libro e a pubblicarlo. Tuttavia, non parlando italiano, non comprerò una copia. Pensi che un giorno potrebbe esserci una traduzione di Google? Sarebbe una lettura divertente.

    dubbie 

     

    Google: Back into English

     

    Enrico

    Congratulations. I know from experience how much effort and time it takes to write a book and publish it. However, not speaking Italian, I won't buy a copy. Do you think there might be a Google translation someday? It would be a fun read.

    dubious

     

    Apart from changing my name to Dubious, it is exactly the same. Of course it might have cheated by knowing that I had just done the translations, but it still seems pretty good.

     

     

     

  • in reply to tariq.ahmad

    Thank you Shabaz, this is the second you should expect as it is printed...

     

    Enrico