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References: Managing Your Kit Inventory and Signal Processing Kits

  1. Fast Fourier transform - Wikipedia - Explains the algorithm that breaks a signal into its frequency components, the technique behind this chapter's Fast-Fourier-Transform-basics section.

  2. Signal processing - Wikipedia - Overview of how audio and sensor signals are analyzed and transformed, the field behind this chapter's real-time-audio-processing section.

  3. Inventory - Wikipedia - Covers how organizations track and value stored goods, the general concept behind this chapter's kit-inventory system.

  4. The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing - Steven W. Smith - California Technical Publishing - Smith's freely available guide is the most widely cited accessible introduction to the Fast Fourier Transform and real-time audio processing, the concepts this chapter's signal-processing-kits section introduces at a beginner level.

  5. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande - Metropolitan Books - Gawande popularized the simple checklist as a tool for preventing errors in complex, repeatable tasks, the reasoning behind this chapter's kit-safety-checklist and kit-unboxing-procedure guidance.

  6. The Discrete Fourier Transform - Steven W. Smith, dspguide.com - The free online chapter explaining how a signal is decomposed into sinusoids, directly supporting this chapter's Fast-Fourier-Transform-basics section.

  7. FFT: Fun with Fourier Transforms - Adafruit Learning System - A beginner project guide for building an audio spectrum analyzer with a microcontroller and microphone, directly supporting this chapter's real-time-audio-processing kit section.

  8. Free Equipment Inventory Templates & Spreadsheets - Smartsheet - Ready-to-use spreadsheet templates for tracking equipment location, cost, and condition, supporting this chapter's kit-documentation-sheet and kit-storage-bin sections.

  9. Adafruit NeoPixel Überguide - Adafruit Learning System - Reference wiring diagrams that model the kind of kit-wiring-diagram documentation this chapter recommends creating for every reusable kit.

  10. Insurance Basics for Nonprofits - Nonprofit Risk Management Center - Covers valuing and protecting organizational equipment, relevant background for this chapter's kit-damage-assessment and kit-loaner-program sections.