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  • Energy Storage

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    This is a book on energy storage. Most electrical energy is AC, and is used when generated. Direct current is stored in battery, but there is no such things as an AC battery. There are other ways to store the energy. Solar cells only produce electricity during the day, and we might need the energy at night. Hydro power system generate power when there is a sufficient amount of water flow. Nuclear ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Computer Virtualization & the Cloud

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Computer Architecture
    This book is intended as an introduction to the topics of computer virtualization and the cloud. We will see how the topics come together.The book includes extensive reference and background material. It will not teach you to be an expert in virtualization or cloud technologies. It will teach you to understand and appreciate these topics, and how they fit into the big picture of computing. The ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Visiting the NASA Centers, and locations of

    Historic Rockets and Spacecraft

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Space
    This book discusses the various NASA Centers across the United States, and presents what can be seen at each. Each has a specialty, and each generally has a visitor's center worth visiting. The guide also mentions nearby facilities of interest, such as the Smithsonian's two Air-and-Space Museum facilities. We will cover all of the manned (U.S.) flight hardware still in existence, including some ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exoplanets

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Space
    This book covers the topics of the existence of planets around others stars. We think now we are unique in the Universe, but the Universe is very large. This book just touches the surface of this very exciting field. With better telescopes and data processing methods, more planets in our galaxy have been found. Dedicated planet-finding facilities on the ground and in space have been deployed. We ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apollo's Computers

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Space
    Apollo was built in the era of “big iron” computer mainframes. The concept of an onboard computer for space missions was radically new. There was only one place in the world that could design the Apollo Guidance Computers, and that was MIT. It took most of the U.S.’s production of integrated circuits, another radical idea replacing individual vacuum tubes, to build the AGC’s. It took 2,000 person ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Spacecraft Computers

    from the V-2 to the Space Station

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Space
    This book documents the development of missile and spacecraft guidance computers from the earliest efforts to the current Space Station and satellite onboard systems. This book developed from the author's presentation at the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in 2009 for the Workshop on Flight Software. The second and third editions were expanded with new material and references ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hardware and Software Architecture of the Transputer

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Com[puter Architecture
    The Transputer was too far ahead of its time. Update the clock speeds, and the architecture would be impressive today. It was a Microcomputer, having a cpu, memory, and I/O on one chip. External logic required was minimal. Large arrays of Transputers were easily implemented. However, like many advanced technological artifacts, it was hard to understand. It took a while to get used to the software ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Architecture & Programming of the Intel X86 Architecture

    40th Anniversary Edition

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Computer Architecture
    This book is an update to an earlier book on x86 computer architecture, hardware and software. The x86 describes not only a line of microprocessor chips dating back to 1978, but also an instruction set architecture (ISA) that the chips implement. The chip families are built by Intel and other manufacturers, and execute the same instructions, but in different ways. The results are the same, ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • NASA's Ships and Planes

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Space
    This book discusses the resources and infrastructure that NASA developed and applied to support space missions in the early 1960's. When the first U. S. satellite, Vanguard, went up in 1958, there was no world-wide network of tracking stations. Thus, a series of ground stations, tracking ships, and tracking aircraft were required. When the crewed capsules of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rocket Science - 101

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series Book 101 - Space
    This book covers the topic of what is popularly referred to as Rocket Science, seen as a daunting topic, completely incomprehensible. This is targeted to the non-specialist as well. I am not a rocket scientist, but I know a lot of them. I are a Rocket Engineer. I'll explain the difference later.This material will not prepare you for a career in Aerospace, but hopefully it will get your interest ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Personal Robots

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Robots
    This book is about the Personal Robots from the 1980's that inspired hopes for the future. This was triggered, in part, by the robots of the Star War series. R2D2 was based on the three service droids of the early Science Fiction movie, Silent Running. They were named Huey, Louie, and Dewey. At the same time, personal computers were emerging as affordable and easier to use. The excitement and the ... Read more

    $8.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 4- and 8-bit Microprocessors

    by Patrick Stakem ...
    Series series Computer Architecture
    There is a brief review of computer architecture, binary math, and digital logic that you can skip, if you are familiar with these topics.The evolution of the 8-bit processors is a history of the advance of semiconductor technology from the first transistors, to the breakthrough of multiple transistors on a chip, the integrated circuit. A lot of this happened when the “Silicon Valley” of northern ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus