Most computer users think that fiddling with the insides of their PC is taboo. They fear that by removing the screws that hold the case on, they're crossing into forbidden territory. And even for those who know they can open the box and fix or upgrade their PC, analysis paralysis often stops them in their tracks: Which upgrades offer the best bang for the buck? How do you pinpoint the faulty component that's making your system freeze? What about compatibility issues? Get ready to get unstuck and get your PC running fast and running right. Repairing and Upgrading Your PC delivers start-to-finish instructions, simple enough for even the most inexperienced PC owner, for troubleshooting, repairing, and upgrading your computer. Written by hardware experts Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, this book covers it all: how to troubleshoot a troublesome PC, how to identify which components make sense for an upgrade, and how to tear it all down and put it back together. This book shows how to repair and upgrade all of your PC's essential components: 
<ul>
<li>Motherboard, CPU, and Memory. Choose the optimal match of these core components to keep your PC running at top speed</li>
<li>Hard Drive, Optical Drive, and Removable Storage</li>
<li>Give your computer what it needs for long-term and short-term storage</li>
<li>Audio and Video. Enhance your computing experience with the right sound and graphics devices for your needs</li>
<li>Input Devices. Pick the best keyboard and mouse to keep your hands happy and healthy</li>
<li>Networking. Set up secure wireless networking to keep the bits flowing between your computers and the outside world</li>
<li>Cases and Power Supplies. Keep everything running cool and reliably</li>
</ul>
 With its straightforward language, clear instructions, and extensive illustrations, this book makes it a breeze for PC owners of any skill level to work on their computer.

Repairing and Upgrading Your PC

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Thompson, Robert Bruce

Thompson, Barbara Fritchman

Home Improvement & Design

Make Community, LLC

If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE our new quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer. Every issue is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life. Everything from home entertainment systems, to laptops, to a host of PDAs is fair game. If there's a way to hack it, tweak it, bend it, or remix it, you will find out about it in MAKE. This isn't another gadget magazine. MAKE focuses on cool things you can do to make technology work the way you want it to. The publication is inspired by our bestselling Hacks series books but with a twist. MAKE is a mook (rhymes with book). We ve combined the excitement, unexpectedness, and visual appeal of a magazine with the permanence and in-depth instructiveness of a how-to book. Whether you're a geek or hacker who delights in creating new uses for technology, or a Saturday afternoon tinkerer who loves to get his hands dirty, you'll keep every issue of MAKE on your bookshelf for years to come. Our premier issue, available in February 2005, includes 220 pages packed with tips and tricks, including:
<ul>
<li>how to create a $14 stabilizer for your video camera with readily available household items</li>
<li>how to use an ordinary kite to take extraordinary professional quality aerial digital photos</li>
<li>how to get rid of that tangle of wires by creating your own 5-in-1 network cable</li>
<li>how to decipher the magnetic stripe on your credit card to find out what your credit card company really knows about you and lots more!</li>
</ul>
 Every quarter, MAKE will contain a unique set of innovative ideas and creations for a variety of new technologies, including mobile devices, in-car computers, web services, digital media, wireless and home networking, and computer hardware.

MAKE: Technology on Your Time Vol. 1

Frauenfelder Ed., Mark

Humor & Entertainment

If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses fortechnology, you'll love MAKE our new quarterly publication for theinquisitive do-it-yourselfer. Our third issue looks at how you can turn your car into a Wi-Fi blasting, computer-controlled, GPS-enabled, biodiesel monster. Key features show how to turn a VCR into a pet feeding robot, how to make a see-through potato cannon, create a remote-controlled haunted house for Holloween, and get you the skinny on cheap welding.
The third edition profiles Ed Storms, now retired, and formerly employed atthe Los Alamos National Laboratories. For more than a decade, Storms hasbeen working on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR.) If LENRs exist and canbe harnessed, they will provide an alternative power source. Since theydon't emit chemical pollutants, they may even alleviate global warming.Visit MAKE's web site: make.oreilly.com.

Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 03

Computers & Technology

Frauenfelder, Mark

Web Development & Design

If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE our quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer.
Every issue is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life. Everything from home entertainment systems, to laptops, to a host of PDAs is fair game. If there's a way to hack it, tweak it, bend it, or remix it, you will find out about it in MAKE.
This isn't another gadget magazine. MAKE focuses on cool things you can do to make technology work the way you want it to. The publication is inspired by our bestselling Hacks series books but with a twist. MAKE is a mook (rhymes with book). We've combined the excitement, unexpectedness, and visual appeal of a magazine with the permanence and in-depth instructiveness of a how-to book.
Whether you're a geek or hacker who delights in creating new uses for technology, or a Saturday afternoon tinkerer who loves to get his hands dirty, you'll keep every issue of MAKE on your bookshelf for years to come.

Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 04

Science & Math

Technology

Make magazine, launched in February 2005 as the first magazine devoted to Tech DIY projects, hardware hacks, and DIY inspiration, has been hailed as "a how-to guide for the opposable thumb set" and "Popular Mechanics for the modern age." Itching to build a cockroach-controlled robot, a portable satellite radio or your very own backyard monorail? Hankering to hack a game boy or your circadian rhythms? Rather read about people who fashion laptop bags from recycled wetsuits and build shopping cart go-karts? Make is required reading.
Now, following on the heels of Make's wildly popular inaugural issues, O'Reilly offers Makers, a beautiful hardbound book celebrating creativity, resourcefulness and the DIY spirit. Author Bob Parks profiles 100 people and their homebrew projects-people who make ingenious things in their backyards, basements and garages with a lot of imagination and a little applied skill.
Makers features technologies old and new used in service of the serious and the amusing, the practical and the outrageous. The makers profiled are driven by a combination of curiosity, passion and plain old stick-to-itiveness to create the unique and astonishing. Most are simply hobbyists who'll never gain notoriety for their work, but that's not what motivates them to tinker. The collection explores both the projects and the characters behind them, and includes full-color photographs and instructions to inspire weekend hackers.
Parks is just the man to track the quirky and outlandish in their natural maker habitats. A well-known journalist and author who covers the personalities behind the latest technologies, Parks' articles on innovations of all kinds have appeared in Wired, Outside, Business 2.0 and Make. He has contributed essays to "All Things Considered" on public radio and discussed trends in technology devices with Regis Philbin and Russ Mitchell on television. As a Wired editor, Parks directed coverage of new consumer technologies and contributed feature articles.
All those who love to tinker or who fancy themselves kindred DIY spirits will appreciate Parks' eclectic and intriguing collection of independent thinkers and makers.

Makers: All Kinds of People Making Amazing Things In Garages, Basements, and Backyards.

Parks, Bob

Computer Science

"This is teaching at its best!" --Hans Camenzind, inventor of the 555 timer (the world's most successful integrated circuit), and author of Much Ado About Almost Nothing: Man's Encounter with the Electron (Booklocker.com)
"A fabulous book: well written, well paced, fun, and informative. I also love the sense of humor. It's very good at disarming the fear. And it's gorgeous. I'll be recommending this book highly." --Tom Igoe, author of Physical Computing and Making Things Talk 
Want to learn the fundamentals of electronics in a fun, hands-on way? With Make: Electronics, you'll start working on real projects as soon as you crack open the book. Explore all of the key components and essential principles through a series of fascinating experiments. You'll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them!
Build working devices, from simple to complexYou'll start with the basics and then move on to more complicated projects. Go from switching circuits to integrated circuits, and from simple alarms to programmable microcontrollers. Step-by-step instructions and more than 500 full-color photographs and illustrations will help you use -- and understand -- electronics concepts and techniques.
<ul>
<li>Discover by breaking things: experiment with components and learn from failure</li>
<li>Set up a tricked-out project space: make a work area at home, equipped with the tools and parts you'll need</li>
<li>Learn about key electronic components and their functions within a circuit</li>
<li>Create an intrusion alarm, holiday lights, wearable electronic jewelry, audio processors, a reflex tester, and a combination lock</li>
<li>Build an autonomous robot cart that can sense its environment and avoid obstacles</li>
<li>Get clear, easy-to-understand explanations of what you're doing and why</li>
</ul>

Make: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery

Platt, Charles

Welcome to the second year of CRAFT, the project-based magazine celebrating the do-it-yourself modern craft movement. We unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly imaginative and resourceful people who are transforming traditional art and crafts with unconventional, unexpected, and even renegade techniques, materials, and tools. In this special limited re-release, all 4 volumes of CRAFT's 2nd year are combined in a Special Edition Boxed Collector's Set with slip case. CRAFT volumes 5 8 highlights Paper, Play, Shoes, and Weaving themes. With lots of step-by-step must-make projects in each volume, you'll be crafting all year long.

Craft: The 2nd Year

Sinclair, Carla

Crafts & Hobbies

In Volume 17, MAKE Magazine goes really old school with a special section on steampunk, featuring projects that blend Victorian era technology with the cutting edge. Build your own marble adding machine or geared candleholder, and make music with a random music generator. MAKE continues to be a leader in the tech DIY movement due to its uncanny instinct to nail the curiosity, vitality, and passion of the growing community of Makers -- DIY enthusiasts, hobbyist engineers/designers, and many others. If you like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE, our project-based quarterly for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer.

Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 17

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Full of creative inspiration and instruction, our fourth year of MAKE, volumes 13 16 collection, features magic, optics, music, and spy tech. Feature projects include Solar-powered Studio, Grow Giant Vegetables, Uncle Bill's Magic Tricks, How to Make a Telekinetic Pen, Stomp Box Basics, Laser Harp, Digital 3D Movies, Scanner Camera, Taffy Pulling Maching, USB Motion Detector, and DIY Telephony.

Make Magazine: The Fourth Year

Volume 18 of MAKE Magazine features projects on how to make food and energy, using the untapped resources around the house, yard, and community. This DIY Energy issue shows readers how to measure their energy use and maximize their efficiency, with projects such as making a topographical map of their property, starting an energy garden, making an embedded irrigation system, using chickens to reduce household inputs, and more. MAKE continues to be a leader in the tech DIY movement due to its uncanny instinct to engage the curiosity, vitality, and passion of the growing community of Makers -- DIY enthusiasts, hobbyist engineers/designers, and others who like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology in amazing projects they undertake in their backyards, basements, and garages.

Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 18

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