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My third book is released! Learn what you'll need to know in order to become an embedded engineer.

Check out my second book; learn practical stuff about building robots and control systems around Linux PCs and the Atmel AVR.

My first book gives you all the intro you need on developing 32-bit embedded systems on a hobbyist budget.

This page is a top-level overview to some of my miscellaneous writing projects. There are a lot of these projects. Where I own the copyright, I have created a local mirror; where I do not, I have either linked to the content itself, or provided a link to a place where you can buy it.

General interest information	A fun little reference page on reverse-engineering TDMA cellphone LCDs for reuse in hobbyist projects. I keep an online diary available to chronicle some of the things I'm doing. I rant on this website, for instance with this discussion of the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray battle. My Scout restoration project has its own separate pages. Many moons ago, I wrote music on the Commodore Amiga. I have some archived information from the time when I collected coin-operated arcade games.
Books	Refer to the links running down the left-hand side of this page.
Ongoing article series on IBM's developerWorks site	PS3 fab-to-lab, part 1: Build Linux lab equipment from a Sony PLAYSTATION 3. Read at developerWorks
Completed article series on IBM's developerWorks site	Xilinx hijinx (1/2): The ML403 out-of-box experience. Read at developerWorks Xilinx hijinx (2/2): Building and loading bitstreams and PowerPC code. Read at developerWorks Multifunction multimedia machine (1/5): Load Linux on the Mac mini. Read at developerWorks Multifunction multimedia machine (2/5): Add still images to your media player. Read at developerWorks Multifunction multimedia machine (3/5): Scripting and scaling for fun and profit. Read at developerWorks Multifunction multimedia machine (4/5): Mixing hardware and software for cost control. Read at developerWorks Multifunction multimedia machine (5/5): Remote control is the new local interface. Read at developerWorks Migrating from x86 to PowerPC (1/9): Robots and networked appliances on a shoestring. Read at developerWorks Migrating from x86 to PowerPC (2/9): Anatomy of the Linux boot process. Read at developerWorks Migrating from x86 to PowerPC (3/9): Kuro Box Linux up close. Read at developerWorks Migrating from x86 to PowerPC (4/9): Build a minimal embedded Web interface. Read at developerWorks Migrating from x86 to PowerPC (5/9): Create a Kuro-based web album. Read at developerWorks Migrating from x86 to PowerPC (6/9): Add vision to your robot submarine. Read at developerWorks Migrating from x86 to PowerPC (7/9): Basic design of the vehicle control module. Read at developerWorks Migrating from x86 to PowerPC (8/9): Add stepper motors to the vehicle control module. Read at developerWorks Migrating from x86 to PowerPC (9/9): Sensors, sensors, sensors! Read at developerWorks The top five engineering hints you'll rarely hear (1/2). Read at developerWorks The top five engineering hints you'll rarely hear (2/2). Read at developerWorks A pox on modern engineering (1/2). Read at developerWorks A pox on modern engineering (2/2). Read at developerWorks
Older printed material	Give the Dog a Chip, cover article on Embedded Systems Programming, Jan 2001. Cover of Information Week, September 2000. Heed danger signals, article on mobile phone safety in Sydney Morning Herald, 24-Sep-96 (my first paid article).
Older online material	Disassembly guide for the Averatec AV3715 subnotebook (laptop) computer. Review of the ECS A535 DeskNote computer. Wiping Off Microsoft. Discussion of the uselessness of Universal Plug 'n' Play. Hacking information on the Virgin Webplayer. Introductory information on how analog modems are built (very dated). Overclocking the Newton MessagePad 120. Building credit in the USA. Review of the Cassiopeia A-11A PDA. Discussion of cellular telephone technology and fraud (very dated).

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