One of the UK's biggest publishers, O'Reilly Media, has published three exciting books that are now available in the Elektor Store. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. So you know that their publications will be well worth reading.

O'Reilly have published the perfect solutions to programming problems in the form of their Cookbooks. Each cookbook contains hundreds of programming recipes presented in a special Problem/Solution/Discussion format that is easy to understand and apply. The cookbooks also include a variety of scripts, programs, and command sequences that can be used to solve specific problems.

Elektor is now providing you with the amazing opportunity to purchase three of these cookbooks in the Elektor Store. The first one is the Arduino Cookbook. This cookbook provides more than 200 tips and techniques for building a variety of objects and prototypes such as toys, detectors, robots and interactive clothing. The recipes included in this second edition volume, updated for the Arduino 1.0 release, include practical examples and guidance to help you begin, expand and enhance your projects. Even better, these examples are suitable for all ages and abilities!

Secondly, we have the Raspberry Pi Cookbook. With the ever evolving world of Raspberry Pi, and the introduction of a variety of new interface boards and software libraries becoming available, it can be hard to keep up. In this cookbook, prolific hacker and author Simon Monk provides more than 200 practical recipes for running this tiny low-cost computer with Linux, programming it with Python, and hooking up sensors, motors, and other hardware—including Arduino. You’ll also learn basic principles to help you use new technologies with Raspberry Pi as its ecosystem develops, and best of all this Cookbook is again suitable for hobbyists, enthusiasts and experts.

Last but by no means least is the Java Cookbook. From lambda expressions and JavaFX 8 to new support for network programming and mobile development, Java 8 brings a wealth of changes. This cookbook helps you get up to speed right away with hundreds of hands-on recipes across a broad range of Java topics. You’ll learn useful techniques for everything from debugging and data structures to GUI development and functional programming. Each recipe includes self-contained code solutions that you can freely use, along with a discussion of how and why they work. This cookbook works equally well to introduce you to Java, but also to improve any prior knowledge and expertise you may have with the software.

So don't miss out on the amazing collection of recipes you can find in these books, and start your cooking today by visiting the Elektor Store.