No. 01 — Open Source
Spark: From Idea to Open Source That Lasts
A hands-on guide to taking a side-project idea all the way to a real, maintained open-source repository — designing it, building it, and keeping it alive after the initial excitement fades. Every chapter pairs with a real exercise, building toward a working example project from scratch.
Repo design · Community templates · Maintenance that lasts
No. 02 — Radio & Electronics
Signal: Radio for Makers — SDR, Morse, LoRa and Your License
An 18-chapter path through amateur radio for makers: software-defined radio, decoding ADS-B and weather satellites, Morse code by ear and by microcontroller, LoRa link budgets, mesh networking, and studying for your actual radio license.
SDR & GNU Radio · Morse & LoRa · Licensing
No. 03 — AI & Prompt Engineering
Prompt: How to Talk to AI So It Gets It Right the First Time
A practical, exercise-driven book on getting AI models and coding agents to do what you actually mean — output formatting, few-shot examples, decomposition, repo rules, spec-driven work, and the daily habits that make prompting a reliable skill instead of a guessing game.
Prompt structure · Coding agents · Daily practice
No. 04 — Git & GitHub
Commit: Git and GitHub for Makers, Students and Developers
Version control from first principles to daily practice: branches, merge and rebase, undoing mistakes safely, the GitHub flow, Actions, releases, and even Git for hardware projects with Git LFS — for makers and students, not just professional developers.
Branching & rebase · GitHub Actions · Releases