Another publication of the Czech National Domain Administrator called "Hradla, volty, jednočipy" is intended for all those interested in electronics, the technology of digits and construction of equipment for the Internet of Things. Martin Malý, a promoter and populariser not only of the open source Arduino platform, but of other IoT projects as well, is the author of this new publication, which is traditionally published under an open licence. The electronic version of the book is available for free download at http://knihy.nic.cz; here you can also order it as a hard copy.

"The aim of the book is not to turn the readers into experts in the design of electronics construction, but to give them basic information on how this technology actually works, to uncover the curtain of secrecy that surrounds the technology of digits and to show that it is possible to construct a device even at home on the desk – one that may not be necessarily compared with electronics produced in the industry, but one that brings a lot of joy and pleasure to its builder," says the book author Martin Malý .

"In this book, the author will take you on a walk into the world of ideas that alternate with implementation. You will no longer be a mere consumer, you will become the author, co-creator or you will just be able to repair that roll which is, by the way, called resistance, even when it shall be called a resistor," say Patrick Zandl of CZ.NIC in the preface.

About the author

Martin Malý (also known under the nickname Arthur Dent or Adent) is a Czech programmer, blogger, publicist and commentator. The texts of Martin Malý can be found on the websites of the Digiweb, Zdroják or iHNed.cz servers. Since 2015, Martin Malý has popularised the Internet Things and DIY electronics, given lectures on these disciplines and trained all those interested in the Arduino platform. For his popularisation activity Martin Malý was nominated in the Křišťálová Lupa survey in category One (wo)man show in 2016. Electronics has been his hobby since early childhood; that he mostly prefers are eight-bit computers from the 1980s. He has been giving the "Arduino for Teachers" course in cooperation with the Czech National Domain Administrator in the CZ.NIC Academy.

About the CZ.NIC edition

The CZ.NIC edition is one of a series of educational projects of the Czech top-level domain administrator. The aim of this project is to publish professional and popularising publications connected with the Internet and its technologies. The first publication, released already in 2008, was the second edition of the IPv6 popular book of Pavel Satrapa (those who are interested will find the 3rd edition on the CZ.NIC website). It was followed by Pro Git publications (Scott Chacon), Ponořme se do Python(u) 3 (Mark Pilgrim), Báječný svět elektronického podpisu (Jiří Peterka), Tvorba open source softwaru (Karl Fogel), Internet jako objekt práva (Ján Matejka), Buď pánem svého prostoru (Linda McCarthy and Denise Weldon-Siviy), Zodpovednosť na internete (Martin Husovec), LibreOffice Writer (Vlastimil Ott), Ponořme se do HTML5 (Mark Pilgrim), Moderně s Moodlem (Václav Maněna et al), Jak na Internet (Jiří Vaněk et al), Výkonnost open source aplikací (Tavish Armstrong), CyberCrime (Jan Kolouch) and Průvodce labyrintem algoritmů (Martin Mareš and Tomáš Valla).