Urgent help needed *today* for Practical Arduino
Jonathan Oxer
Sorry to use these lists for my personal purposes, but I'm in a major
bind and you're the best people I can think of appealing to for help and
hopefully the topic is relevant anyway.
I assume you all know that Hugh Blemings and I have been working on a
book called "Practical Arduino" for about 7 months:
www.practicalarduino.com, just in case you hadn't heard of it. The
original plan was to present about 40 projects to demonstrate a wide
variety of techniques, but the sheer effort required to not just write
about a project but first to research it, design and build the hardware,
write or adapt software, debug it all, build it neatly a second or third
time so photos could be taken of the progress, and *then* write it up
means that probably only about 20% of the work has been actual writing.
Or, to put it another way: it's been about 5x as much work per page to
create this book as it has been to do any of my previous ones.
The result is a totally blown deadline and far fewer completed projects
than intended.
So the current situation is that we have 16 projects that have been
fully written and are ready to go totalling over 135,000 words, but in
order to include them in the book they also need to go through a
Technical Review (TR) process and then have the TR feedback integrated
into them. Overnight we got an email from Apress saying that they are
pulling the plug on any projects that have not been TRd *and* all
changes subsequently integrated by Thursday (ie: today!) their time.
Of those 16 finished projects only 9 have been TRd as of this moment.
Which is why I desperately need your help *today*, because if Apress cut
the book off at 9 projects it won't be a book, it'll be a pamphlet. If
there's any chance you could spend a bit of time today or tonight
reading through a project and trying to spot any technical mistakes or
make suggestions about how to improve it please let me know ASAP by
email (j...@oxer.com.au) or phone (+61 4 3851 6600) and I'll give you
access to the Google Docs we're using to write up and manage the
projects.
Cheers :-)
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Jonathan Oxer
Ph +61 4 3851 6600
Geek My Ride! <http://www.geekmyride.org/>
Thomas Sprinkmeier
(not sure if your're going to get this email a few times, having some
gmail issues here).
Thomas
Luke Weston
Jon, I emailed you, I know I'm late to the game but I'll help if
there's still time.
This is really just a fail-safe in case, somehow, the other email
fails.