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The Maker's Manual

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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
PDF, ePub Page 148
3rd paragraph (just after the second code segment)

Apparently a few letters were deleted in what should be two sentences. The paragraph reads:
With this change you will be able to work out whether the button is pressed with a simple digitalRead(button); and switch on the LED by writing digitalWrithis is because if you declared the variables within the setup block, you could use them only in that block. This principle applies for all blocks, and is known as visibility of variables or scope.

The "...and switch on the LED by writing digitalWrithis is because..." should be "...and switch on the LED by writing digitalWrite. This is because..."

David Peach  Dec 07, 2015 
PDF, ePub Page 203
Bottom of left hand column.

The EarthTools domain has been changed from www.earthtools.org to new.earthtools.org. I have not confirmed whether you can still get the XML data by just changing the URL.

David Peach  Dec 08, 2015