"...unique, photographically precise diagrams of breadboarded components, to help you build circuits with speed and precision. A new shopping guide and a simplified range of components, will minimize your investment in parts for the projects. A completely new section on the Arduino shows you how to write properly structured programs instead of just downloading other people's code. Projects have been reworked to provide additional features, and the...

For millennia, people have lived upon this planet without the need for electronic devices. No smart phones, tablets or gadgets running their homes. Some knew about the cycles of nature and the balance of life. Now, people live in an artificially created dream state that controls every aspect of their lives. The majority of people in the world have no idea how to hunt and gather, how to heal themselves, build a shelter and even communicate without...

"Did you know that you can dry out your wet cell phone by putting its parts in separate bowls of uncooked rice? That you can scroll through a website using only your spacebar? That if you type your airline and flight number in to Google, it tells you where your flight is, the gate, terminal, and how long until it lands? When David Pogue gave this kind of advice in the New York Times, his columns were consistently the most e-mailed of the week. When...