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This book provides a great way to learn about the use of Wi-Fi enabled microcontrollers by demonstrating several Internet-Of-Things applications of the ESP32 devices on small model railroads. The ESP32 is a powerful WIFI/Bluetooth-enabled System on Chip device that lets the programmer do a lot of cool things. The authors show ways to connect them to sensors, turnouts and transfer information to computers by using Wi-Fi technology. The first sections of the book provide a lot of guidance and demonstrate various capabilities to utilize the ESP32 along with the Mosquitto MQTT Broker. The final section of the book uses techniques from the earlier chapters to complete several applications on model railroad layouts of for example capturing data using infrared sensors to determine if sidings are occupied, determine the speed of trains on a layout, and a Wi-Fi DC throttle. This book is intermediate level based on the complexity of IOT systems but it is set up in way to aid a novice in gaining experience to complete the advanced applications and expand to the readers own model railroad projects.

The world is rapidly changing, the future is filled with uncertainty. We seem to be going from one crisis to another. Are the events happening on earth just random unrelated events, or are they being orchestrated and planned by powerful elites, or even a higher power? Are these events signs pointing to a coming apocalypse and the return of Jesus Christ? The answers to these questions are found in the pages of this book.

This new collection brings together a mix of montaged and strangely juxtaposed materials composed over a period of several years between 2012 and 2017.

In this extraordinary sequence of prose poems, coral reefs fall from the sky, volcanoes smoulder and pirates come to power in Britain.

Steve Spence's new collection of poetry is a continuation of the mapping of contemporary cultural and political topics through the medium of montage, intervention and startling juxtaposition. While this poetry has its serious side there is plenty of scope for fun and a celebration of the strange and 'off-key'.

Features poems which are ostensibly about pirates yet the subtext has a satirical impulse which is fuelled by surrealism and a delight in upending the apple cart. The author revels in entertaining juxtapositions and in breathless passages of 'stream-of-consciousness' rant, which work wonderfully on the page or performed live.