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Essential Reading
There are many nice books out there, but a few of them contain such wisdom that I just must mention them here:
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SunSPOT Adventures
SunSPOT means Small Programmable Object Technology. From Sun microsystems. And really cool. They are really like embedded devices and you can program them in Java with full IDE and debug support. Aka embedded software made easy. Unfortunately they are quite unavailable in Europe. But fortunately I was able to borrow a development kit from the NL-JUG. And so a series of fun projects started..
For indepth details and source code have a look at the NL-JUGs SunSPOT wiki here .
SunSPOT Video Game Controller
SunSPOT Puzzle Game