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Résumé : This book contains 23 special and exciting artificiel intelligence machine-learning projects, for microcontroller and PC. Learn how to set up a neural network in a microcontroller, and how to make the network self-learning. Discover how you con breed robots, and how changing a fitness function results in a totally different behavior. Find out how a PC program exposes your weak spots in a game, and ruthlessly exploits them. Build a free-will robot, or have one clean your floor ! Example projects from the book : Microcontroller that learns what your favourite color is. Robot wandering about the house looking for someone to play with. Bred robot program that is incapable of crossing a black line. Microcontroller that learns how to play a game until You just can't win anymore. PC that programs a microcontroller all by itself. Complete with free software that you can download containing : All source code for the microcontroller. All sources of compiled PC programs (MS Windows). JAL programming language, with special editor and extension libraries. Robot breed program. Plus a support webpage with links, errata and FAQ. Several artificial intelligence techniques are discussed and used in projects such as expert system, neural network, subsumption, emerging behavior, genetic algorithm, cellular automata and roulette brains. Every project has clear instructions and pictures so you can start immediately. Suggestions and literature links allow you to go way beyond the scope of the book. Even after you have built all the projects contained within, this book will remain a valuable reference guide to keep next to your PC. A unique book for anyone with an interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The mouse is one of the best proven, widely used and inexpensive man-machine interfaces ever devised, yet its presence in the world of embedded systems is still a rarity. Indeed, there are few embedded engineers today having practical experience of how to implement the hardware and software required to 'enable' mouse input. In Mouse Interfacing with USB and PS/2, the concepts needed are thoroughly explained. The practical development which stems from this knowledge is soon explored, with the feedback from each step providing impetus for the next. This book describes in-depth how to connect the mouse into new embedded applications. It details the two main interface methods, PS/2 and USB, and offers applications guidance with hardware and software examples plus tips on interfacing the mouse to typical microcontrollers. A wide range of topics is explored, including: Ballistic profiles for fast-yet-precise response ; A four-channel, millivolt-precision voltage reference ; USB descriptors; A variety of examples all with fully documented source-code. If you need to interface an embedded system to a mouse (PS/2 or USB), then this book will prove an invaluble tool. A wealth of clear illustrations enhance this highly readable text.

Résumé : Technology is constantly changing. New microcontrollers become available every year and old oves become redundant. The one thing that has stayed the same is the C programming language used to program these microcontrollers. If you would like to learn this standard language to program microcontrollers, then this book is for you! ARM microcontrollers are available from a large number of manufacturera. They are 3a-bit microcontrollers and usually contain a decent amount of memory and a large number of on-chip peripherals. Although this book concentrates on ARvI microcontrollers from Atmel, the C programming language applies equally to other manufacturer's ARMs as well as other microcontrollers. Features of this book: Use only free or open source software. Learn how to download, set up and use free C programming tools. Start learning the C language to write simple PC programs before tackling embedded programming - no need to buy an embedded system right away! Start learning to program from the very first chapter with simple programs and slowly build from there. No programming experience is necessary! Learn by doing - type and run the example programs and exercises. Sample programs and exercises can be downloaded from the Internet. A fun way to learn the C programming language. Ideal for electronic hobbyists, students and engineers wanting to learn the C programming language in an embedded environment on ARM microcontrollers.

Résumé : The newcomer to Microchip's PIC microcontrollers invariably gets an LED to flash as their first attempt to master this technology. you can use just a simple LED indicator in order to show that your initial attempt is working, which will give you confidence to move forward. This is how the book begins - simple programs to flash LEDs, and eventually by stages to use other display indicators such as the 7-segment display, alphanumeric liquid crystal displays and eventually a colour graphic LCD. As the reader progresses through the book, bigger and upgraded PIC chips are introduced, with full circuit diagrams and source code, both in assembler and C. In addition, a small tutorial is included using the MPLAB programming environment, together with the EAGLE schematic and PCB design package to enable readers to create their own designs using the book's many case studies as working examples to work from.