Hardware Reference
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The Possibilities Are Endless
As you can see, the possibilities for extending this, like the other projects, are endless. he
aim of this topic is to have put you on the road to discover how exciting computing can be,
while building really fun projects. You may not have understood every piece of code at irst,
but in computing this is not uncommon for experts! Sometimes you may need to spend
some time playing with the code, copying bits out, changing it, experimenting to ind out
how it works. he background information in the chapters will hopefully give an introduc-
tion to the basics, which you can use to know how to modify the projects to make them your
own. Treat it a bit like a cookbook where you reuse techniques from recipes in your own
dishes.
You never stop learning with computing; technology will continue to change, but the under-
lying principles remain more constant. If you learn these principles, you can apply them to
the latest technology and know where to ind reference documentation. Sometimes part of
the challenge is knowing what the jargon means, hopefully some of which this topic has
demystiied.
Computing touches nearly every part of modern life. You can use it as a springboard into
virtually any ield. Computing changes the world. And often it starts with an idea and some
code written by one or two people. hink how mobile phones, digital cameras, MP3 players,
Facebook and Twitter afect millions of people. Anita Borg, Steve Furber, Bill Gates, Steve
Jobs, Martha Lane Fox, Sophie Wilson and Mark Zuckerberg - contemporary famous names
in the ield of computing - all started with an idea. You and your invention can be part of it.
It's over to you, what are you going to create? How will you change the world?