Hardware / DIY

The Secret Life of Circuits

CMason — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:54:32 +0000

Electronic circuit design, drawn by hand and explained from first principles.

Michal Zalewski

September 2026

Embedded AI

CMason — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:07:37 +0000

A project-driven guide to designing, training, and deploying artificial intelligence directly on embedded hardware, showing how to build intelligent, autonomous systems under real-world constraints.

David Such

October 2026

The Wireless Cookbook

CMason — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:05:35 +0000

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Long Range wireless, built from scratch with a Raspberry Pi.

Bill Zimmerman

January 2026

Practical PCB Design

CMason — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:21:42 +0000

Your circuit works on the breadboard. Now learn the concepts that turn it into a board ready for production.

Mike D. Smith

January 2027

Game Boy Coding Adventure

CMason — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:54:08 +0000

Learn assembly by doing what you always wanted as a kid: programming a Game Boy.

Maximilien Dagois

October 2025

Microcontroller Exploits

Sdevos — Wed, 01 May 2024 16:24:42 +0000

The attack surface nobody talks about. Learn to find and exploit vulnerabilities in embedded systems.

Travis Goodspeed

August 2024

Engineering Secure Devices

No Starch Press — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:12:14 +0000

Security built into hardware from the start, not bolted on afterward.

Dominik Merli

June 2024

The Art of ARM Assembly, Volume 1

briana.blackwell — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 19:59:01 +0000

Add valuable skills to your programming toolkit by learning to write complete applications in ARM, a popular low-level assembly language.

Randall Hyde

January 2025

Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition

briana.blackwell — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:01:53 +0000

No coding. No computers. No kidding.

Øyvind Nydal Dahl

June 2026

Designing Electronics That Work

CMason — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:14:10 +0000

How real engineers build electronics—one working piece at a time.

Hunter Scott

August 2025

Getting Started with FPGAs

CMason — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:19:27 +0000

Learn to program FPGAs the easy way with this beginner-friendly intro to digital circuit design with Verilog and VHDL.

Russell Merrick

September 2023

Arduino for Arduinians

CMason — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:18:39 +0000

Build 70 intermediate-level Arduino projects as you become a true Arduinian, ready to invent your own creations.

John Boxall

October 2023

The LEGO® Engineer

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:38:24 +0000

Build amazing models of the world's greatest feats of engineering, designed by LEGO expert Jeff Friesen.

Jeff Friesen

September 2022

The Book of I²C

No Starch Press — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:43:33 +0000

An extensive practical guide to connecting real-world devices to microcontrollers with the popular I²C bus.

Randall Hyde

August 2022

AVR Workshop

No Starch Press — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:17:52 +0000

Build more than 55 hands-on, wide-ranging projects with the popular and versatile AVR family of microcontrollers.

John Boxall

September 2022