Título: Car PC Hacks: Tips & Tools for Geeking Your Ride
Autor: Damien Stolarz
Sinopse: A car PC or carputer is a car tricked-out with electronics for playing radio, music and DVD movies, connecting to the Internet, navigating and tracking with satellite, taking photos, and any electronic gadget a person wants in a car. All these devices are managed and controlled through a single screen or interface. The only place car PC enthusiasts can go for advice, tips and tools is a handful of hard-to-find Web sites--until now. Car PC Hacks is your guide into the car PC revolution.Packing MP3 players, handheld devices, computers and video-on-demand systems gives you a pile too heavy to carry. But add a car and put them together, you've got a powerful and mobile multimedia center requiring no lifting. The next time you give kids a lift, you won't hear, "Are we there yet?" Instead, expect "We're there already?" as they won't want to leave the car while playing video games from multiple consoles.Car PC Hacks is the first book available to introduce and entrench you into this hot new market. You can count on the book because it hails from O'Reilly, a trusted resource for technical books. Expect innovation, useful tools, and fun experiments that you've come to expect from O'Reilly's Hacks Series.Maybe you've hacked computers and gadgets, and now you're ready to take it to your car. If hacking is new and you would like to mix cars and computers, this book gets you started with its introduction to the basics of car electrical systems. Even when you're unclear on the difference between amps and watts, expect a clear explanation along with real-life examples to get on track. Whether you're venturing into car PC for the first time or an experienced hobbyist, hop in the book for a joy ride.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Car PC Hacks: Tips & Tools for Geeking Your Ride”, de Damien Stolarz, publicado pela editora O'Reilly Media, em 2005 e com 386 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: O'Reilly Media
Páginas: 386
Ano: 2005
Edição:
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 0596553129
ISBN13: 9780596553128
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora O'Reilly Media costumam oferecer uma experiência prática e direta, focada em tecnologia, programação e desenvolvimento de software. A leitura frequentemente envolve tutoriais passo a passo, exemplos de código e explicações detalhadas que ajudam desde iniciantes até profissionais a entender conceitos complexos, como programação funcional, redes, segurança digital e design de interfaces. O catálogo privilegia clareza e aplicabilidade, com obras que exploram tanto fundamentos teóricos quanto soluções para desafios reais em ambientes digitais e computacionais.
