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The Only Official Guide to the Parallax Multicore Propeller Microcontroller
Written by a team of Propeller experts, this authoritative guide shows you how to realize your design concepts by taking full advantage of the multicore Propeller microcontroller's unique architecture. The book begins with a review of the Propeller hardware, software, and Spin language so you can get started right away. Programming and Customizing the Multicore Propeller Microcontroller: The Official Guide is filled with a wide variety of step-by-step, hands-on projects. Put your ideas into production when you learn how to:
- Debug code for multiple cores
- Understand how the Propeller interacts with different sensors
- Wirelessly network Propeller chips
- Build a balancing robot and control it with computer vision
- Develop networking applications using an off-the-shelf Ethernet chip
- Create a portable multivariable GPS tracking and data logging device
- Use the Propeller as a remote virtual peripheral for media applications
- Create a Propeller-powered HVAC green house model
- Synthesize speech with the Propeller
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- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition (January 13, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071664505
- ISBN-13: 978-0071664509
- Product Dimensions: 1 x 7.1 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Programming and Customizing the Multicore Propeller Microcontroller: The Official Guide Free Download
Let me start off by saying that I got this book via Parallax and one of their Demo Board kits. Having read all the reviews posted for this product I was more or less ecstatic to dive in and learn more about the Propeller P8X32A Multicore Microcontroller. The power and resources at your disposal with this chip is rather remarkable; hence the excitement when I received the book.
Once the book arrived I opened it right up and started to read everything that I could that evening. The first two chapters are great! Learned a good bit, however, everything thereafter is really a huge disappointment. The book, mind you, is an official guide to using the Parallax SPIN language and how to program the Propeller via the Propeller Tool software. However! once you get past chapter two a whole lot of things let me down. For starters, every project after blinking the LEDs requires extensive extra hardware. You'll need several XBee modules, a GPS module, a robotics kit, the Board of Education, among various other things such as servos and what not. All in all, to use the full extent of the book and really get your moneys worth is to spend potentially a couple extra hundred dollars. That is asinine and ridiculous. To use a $23 book with a $40 board that has only 8 GPIO pins for use (as everything else is tied up to VGA output, PS/2 mouse & keyboard, USB, stereo & audio jacks) I was a less than satisfactory customer.
While the book is great for learning how to blink the on-board LEDs, it really lacks in a lot of other features that the Propeller chip can do. For example, a solid explanation for how to use certain Blocks or Objects would have been fantastic; especially a proper introduction to how to use the DAT function. A lot of the projects don't make much sense either.