It's a nice looking little book, very friendly for someone like me who likes fun little projects.
I don't use Arduino but it is a cute book. I bought one
I'll probably give it to my kid
)
Parla Italiano?
I wonder, with the world moving to print on demand for low volume books these days, what the cost difference would have been if the author had just used a PoD service and listed on Amazon (like a number of the PoD services do for you) and not run a crowd funded campaign?
Crowdfunding = massive free advertising currently.
He would only have a fraction of the sales via a POD service and any other marketing channel.
Either Atmel or Arduino linked to this on their Facebook page. I forget which though.
I noticed today that the project owner on this one is absolutely deleting critical comments. There was a fairly direct (but a bit nasty) one I spotted earlier today that was asking the project owner to fully disclose his relation to the other two "smartmaker" crowdfunded projects. And now that comment is no longer visible.
I suspected some funny business was going on when I noted that the last visible comment was a week ago - it's extremely rare for a highly popular project to go so long without comment.
I don't go to the web site but get emails on the status of the book. It is being printed in china and He was heading that way.
I got this email oct 21:
Here’s an update for you from the ‘ARDUINO BASIC CONNECTIONS - THE BOOK’ team:
1 new Announcement:
Hi Makers!
I'm very excited... I'm packing my bag and tomorrow's morning I will be on my way to China, ready to send you a lot of books (over 3,500!).
I wanted to write you because there are friends of our network who have just started a very interesting project here on Indiegogo. As they have nice discounts for the early birds, I'm happy if you are within the firsts to find out this product that I believe it will have good results:
http://igg.me/at/uv/x/4174037Hope you will find the suggestion interesting.
Alberto PighiXXX
Has anybody got the book yet?
In theory started shipping 10 days ago.
I think they asked for a conformation on the adress of which they ship your book at some point, via e-mail.
That being all done, still waiting...
Has anybody got the book yet?
Yep. Mine arrived earlier today (UK). Nice little book
I got my book today. USA Arizona.
The last page is not properly attached but the little book is nice.
Now I have to take the whole book apart to add the last page properly. Am I the only one with the problem?
Got mine today in Georgia, no problems with the last page. It's a nice book, especially for beginners who are more immediately interested in getting something working than about the science, math and theory behind it.
Ciao!
Thank you all for the support you have given me!
@casinada
If you send me a private message I will send you a new book.
Thanks again,
Alberto