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April 13, 2020
There's only so much TV you can binge, so many closets you can clean out or spice drawers you can organize. Time for some serious tech-oriented fun.
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Technical Blogging, Second Edition
Understand what blogging is and how it can improve your professional and personal life. Build a community around your blog to maximize its benefits for your career, for your business, or for extra income. Create and maintain a successful technical blog that amplifies your impact, influence, and reach with this step-by-step plan.
Build Talking Apps for Alexa
Voice-enabled computers used to be the stuff of science fiction. Now, they’re everywhere. Create engaging and natural user interfaces for your applications, enabling them to listen to users and talk back. Use voice and sound as first-class components of user-interface design. Take a step into the future today.
Build Chatbot Interactions
Using frameworks available in Ruby and Node.js, create simple chatbot skills that respond to basic requests. Or chain skills together for more complex interactions. Developers of all skill levels can build chatbots using free, open-source tools and launch them to chat platforms like Slack and Amazon’s Alexa.
Explore Software Defined Radio
Combine your desktop or laptop computer with easy-to-find Software Defined Radio (SDR) equipment, and tune in a wide range of signals. Then, go one step further and convert a Raspberry Pi into your own dedicated SDR device. Discover the fun of SDR and then open your ears to the secrets that surround you.
Raspberry Pi: A Quick-Start Guide, Second Edition
Connect the Pi to your home network, surf the web, and tweet messages. Control the desktops on PCs—hopefully your own—and then let the real fun begin. Build a web server for your home network, create a powerful audio and video multimedia center, or play all your favorite classic video games.
Arduino: A Quick-Start Guide, Second Edition
Packed with full-color photos and step-by-step instructions, build creative projects in no time. From a motion-sensing game controller and universal remote to a burglar alarm and binary dice, these projects are the perfect antidote to boredom. Join the Arduino community and develop fun, useful inventions.
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