I am Norman Dunbar, nobody special – ask my wife! I'm not an author really, I'm a (now retired) Oracle Database Administrator, but over the years I've created quite a few eBooks which you can download from my Github page, https://github.com/NormanDunbar.

After school I worked first as a Honda motorbike mechanic in Elgin in the north of Scotland, followed by a spell in Inverness as a Yamaha outboard motor mechanic. My computer downfall was a Sinclair ZX-81. I bought one and got hooked. A quick Scottish Higher National Diploma course at college and I was soon working in the IT Industry, in Aberdeen.

After 12 years in Aberdeen, I met a Yorkshire Lass, and moved to Yorkshire where I got married and settled down with Alison. I'm still in Yorkshire at the moment but no longer working having retired from our IT company – we did software testing and Oracle databases.

My first book, “Arduino Software Internals”, I wrote to scratch my own itch as I've got no imagination when it comes to thinking about what to build, paint, write about, etc. I do, however, love to find out how things work or how things are made. I “needed” to find out how the Arduino software spoke to the hardware to make it work. I had seen (and bought) numerous good books on things to build with your Arduino, but nothing on how it worked.

After diving into the Arduino code, and working out what it did and why, I ended up with an enormous pile of notes, so I thought I'd gather them together into a book for my own use. Apress chose to publish it, and here we are – suddenly I'm a published author.

My second book, “Arduino Interrupts” is currently in the publishing pipeline. Once again, it's about the Arduino and the ATmaga328, and is another topic that I have yet to see. This one covers all but one of the ATmega328P interrupts, how they can be used and when to avoid them! Why not all of them? There's very little usable documentation on the missing one.

I also have a third book, more Arduino I'm afraid, still in the typing and coding stages. More info soon — for certain values of “soon”!

Happy reading, and remember my motto – Don't think, find out!

Cheers,

Norm.