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"This is teaching at its best!"
--Hans Camenzind, inventor of the 555 timer (the world's most successful integrated circuit), and author of Much Ado About Almost Nothing: Man's Encounter with the Electron (Booklocker.com)
"A fabulous book: well written, well paced, fun, and informative. I also love the sense of humor. It's very good at disarming the fear. And it's gorgeous. I'll be recommending this book highly."
--Tom Igoe, author of Physical Computing and Making Things Talk
Want to learn the fundamentals of electronics in a fun, hands-on way? With Make: Electronics, you'll start working on real projects as soon as you crack open the book. Explore all of the key components and essential principles through a series of fascinating experiments. You'll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them!
Build working devices, from simple to complex You'll start with the basics and then move on to more complicated projects. Go from switching circuits to integrated circuits, and from simple alarms to programmable microcontrollers. Step-by-step instructions and more than 500 full-color photographs and illustrations will help you use -- and understand -- electronics concepts and techniques.
- Discover by breaking things: experiment with components and learn from failure
- Set up a tricked-out project space: make a work area at home, equipped with the tools and parts you'll need
- Learn about key electronic components and their functions within a circuit
- Create an intrusion alarm, holiday lights, wearable electronic jewelry, audio processors, a reflex tester, and a combination lock
- Build an autonomous robot cart that can sense its environment and avoid obstacles
- Get clear, easy-to-understand explanations of what you're doing and why
About the Author
Charles Platt became interested in computers when he acquired an Ohio Scientific C4P in 1979. After writing and selling software by mail order, he taught classes in BASIC programming, MS-DOS, and subsequently Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. He wrote five computer books during the 1980s.
He has also written science fiction novels such as The Silicon Man (published originally by Wired books) and Protektor (from Avon Books). He stopped writing science fiction when he started contributing to Wired magazine in 1993, and became one of its three senior writers a couple of years later.
Charles began contributing to Make magazine in its third issue and is currently a contributing editor. Make: Electronics is his first book for Make Books. Currently he is designing and building prototypes of medical equipment in his workshop in a northern Arizona wilderness area.
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Best introduction to electronics ever written!,
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This review is from: MAKE: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery (Paperback)
After reading this book, I finally understand how a transistor works in a cicuit!This book is a great mix of the practical with the theoretical. I took one electronics class in college and didn't learn half as much as I did reading this book. A tour-de-force! I hope he writes a sequel.
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This book is great both as a starting point or a refresher to electronics. I'm going to order the parts bundles from the Maker Shed so I can do all of the experiments. I really like the hands-on approach of doing the experiment and then talking about what is happening. Very easy to follow.
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Nice little book to start electronic,
This review is from: MAKE: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery (Paperback)
I always searched a book to start softly in electronic and this one is the best I have read so far. I have try many book but all of them start very slowly than goes too far fast. This one is easy to understand and does not require to have done too much pre-lecture. Activities are simple and theories are just enough to understand.I recommend this book over any other books to start electronic.
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