O'Reilly Blog and Internet of Things.

Glaring omission in my recent tale of seeking best Internet of Things blogs. O'Reilly should be therein. Found this recent article on Internet of Things problems facinating. Great O'Reilly Blog. Really want to try to get to one of their Solid conferences. Always have been a fan of Make and their events and blogs.

MIT Mini Maker Faire.

MIT Mini Maker Faire
MIT Mini Maker Faire
October 4, 2014, North Court, east of Stata Center,  9a-6p

Reference Books for Device, Apparatus and Electronics Design.

One wants to get started building a device - a mechanism, a gadget, or an apparatus. Where to start? One can learn from peers and mentors. One can read magazines like Make, Circuit Cellar and Elektor. But what are the best reference books?

Classics:
Horowitz and Hill - Art of Electronics - Long in 2nd edition. Long rumored 3rd edition.

Richardson and Smith - Experimental Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics. (okay so I have a bias *grin* knowing them)

Moore, Davis and Copeland - Building Scientific Apparatus - little bit tilted to chemistry, but excellent overall.

More modern: Pratt - Make: Electronics

More ancient: Brown - 507 Mechanical Movements (Dover)

Meet more modern peers and mentors at a Maker Festival? Or at a Hackerspace?

Or go back to the past like at the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments?