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With Retro Arduino , you'll learn how to rebuild controllers to resurrect old R/C cars, make your own electronic dice, build your own electronic board game score keepers, control toys with an iPhone, and even teach an old music box how to play new songs.
Old remote control cars, music boxes, board games and game pieces, and electronic toys. Toss them out? Put them in storage? Put them on eBay and cross your fingers? Why not make amazing new toys out of old toys -- recapture the magic of retro gadgets, games, and toys by adding the magical ingredient: Arduino.
Along the way you'll learn electronic concepts such as digital and analog I/O, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), and how to use sensors and create displays. No experience required, but you'll definitely have experience by the time you're through!
List of contents
Ch. 1: Controlling a Remote-Control Car with Pulse Width Modulation
Ch. 2: Making Electronic Dice Ch. 3: How to Make a Board Game Scorekeeper Ch. 4: Controlling Toys with an iPhone
Ch. 5: Controlling Toys with an Android phone Ch. 6: Making Your Toys Tweet Ch. 7: Adding Sensors to Toys Ch. 8: Putting New Songs in Old Music Boxes
Ch. 9: Retro 60's: Arduino-ize a Robot Commando
Ch. 10: Retro 70's: Hack-Brite: Customize a Lite-Brite
Ch. 11: Retro 80's: Hack a Big Trak
Appendix: Arduino and Electronics Safety
