Thanks for the extended answer.
I like these lines :
It is a big book, taking you from te beginning to medium advanced stuff like gLCD, VGA modules use, but also making your Arduino a MIDI responsive synth producing 8bit sounds and reading PCM.
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I introduce and play with Processing and Max6 in the book in order to open mind to very used frameworks too.
A lot of questions here on the forum are about communicating with PC etc. It is good to spend some pages on that issue.
I won't subscribe on the newsletter, I'll hope to see the TOC here someday.
Succes!