Books on Colin O'Flynn

Making it Small

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Small-scale electronics production book — lessons from building NewAE in a spare room.

The Hardware Hacking Handbook

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Book, with Jasper van Woudenberg — breaking embedded security for fun and profit.

Announcing my "Small Scale Electronics Production" Book

Sun, 11 May 2025 13:09:53 +0000

During the pandemic I started a project I long wanted to do, which is to write down many of my lessons learned around building a hardware business. While this has now taken much longer than planned, I’m approaching a (hopeful) end of the draft process over the next couple of months. In combination with my Amp Hour discussion with Chris Gammel, I thought it was a good time to “officially” announce this!

Springer / SpringerLink MyCopy Review

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:30:00 +0000

Recently I was using an e-book I had access to through my school’s subscription to Springer. They advertised a ‘MyCopy’ service, which gives you a printed copy of the e-book for $25 including shipping http://www.springer.com/mycopy. I couldn’t find a review of the printing quality anywhere so though I’d post one quickly… The actual copy would be $98 for softcover or $103 for hardcover. The trick with MyCopy is you can only order it assuming you have access to the e-book: thus you have a license to print a physical copy, and springer is just printing what you already are licensed for. Anyway it looks good: colour wrap-around cover, B&W inside. Print quality is good - black is very “black”, although noticeably shiny. Paper seems bright and weight OK. As far as print on demand (POD) it’s great - better than I was expecting for $25. It’s lower quality than a real offset-print textbook, but it’s pretty close, better than other POD I’ve had. I recently bought a “real” book from the ‘Missing Manual’ series, which is apparently using POD for some books. The “real” book I got is far lower quality than the Springer MyCopy, so should give you some idea for comparison. The Springer MyCopy I got was printed in USA as well. Some images (click for full resolution): Front Cover: Binding Detail: Text close-up, white-looking areas are shiny reflections: Binding can be pushed down and lay somewhat flat without breaking: