Book Review: Ask an Engineer on September 12th

Limor "Ladyada" Fried and Phil Torrone review my new book Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express from this clip on the Ask an Engineer broadcast on September 12, 2018.

Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express book now out from major booksellers!

Out today September 10th! A new paperback book on the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express board! The book gets you started with microcontrollers by learning how to use the Express with Microsoft MakeCode and CircuitPython. There is also information on configuring and using the board in the Arduino IDE.

Now available from online bookstores like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.co.uk, amazon.ca, and booktopia.com.au.

The book will also be available from Adafruit to include bundling with Circuit Playground Express, stay tuned.

Have all the information at your fingertips in this new book. Check it out today.

New Book: Make: Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express

My new book Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express: The Multipurpose Learning and Development Board from Adafruit was released earlier this month in a Humble Bundle in eBook format. The final print and eBook will be out in September, hopefully available at World Maker Faire in NYC September 22 and 23.

Prerelease buy on Amazon: Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express: The Multipurpose Learning and Development Board from Adafruit

I should be at Maker Faire NY - stay tuned for when and where and plan to come & have fun hanging out with the Makers!

Getting Back to Blogging after Publishing the Book

As blog readers are probably aware, I have been working on a new book for Maker Media called Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket.  It's been a labor of, well, work.  It has been a great experience but I'm ready to get back to a wider array of projects.

The book details use of the Trinket - an ATtiny85 breakout board from Adafruit Industries.

Here is the back and front cover.  It has changed over the last few months, the title a bit, the cover definitely new and a departure from many Make books.  Another departure is color - the inside is printed in color vs. black and white for most Getting Started books.  This allows you to really see the wiring and the projects.

The source code and the illustrative pictures have been posted on GitHub at https://github.com/trinketbook/GettingStartedWithTrinket

If you would like to see the Adafruit "Ask an Engineer" webcast in which I join Limor "Ladyada" Fried and Phil Torrone talk about many things including the book, here is the video:

Please excuse my actions and the bags under my eyes!  I had been awake for like 22 hours at that point and I need my beauty sleep after 16!  Curse transatlantic flights!

The book is available in final release via ebook in  ePub, Mobi, and/or PDF formats from O'Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920031598.do or preorder the paperback from Amazon.com.  It should be out by mid-October!

Book Announcement: Getting Started with Trinket

Now you may officially know why I have not posted much in the last few months.  From September through December, I was writing tutorials on http://learn.adafruit.com as previously discussed.  I was contacted by Maker Media who asked for a book on the Adafruit Trinket microcontroller.  How could I refuse?  So I have been writing and writing some more.  Today Amazon now has it for preorder:

Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket

The price will probably be a bit less than those listed as it will probably be edited down a bit more.

A prerelease hardcopy will be out for Maker Faire New York, September 20 & 21st.

More information and it develops.  Thank you to my viewers for your support of my projects.  Mike