Make: Electronics: Learning by Discovery: A hands-on primer for the new electronics enthusiast, 3rd Edition
- Length: 326 pages
- Edition: 3
- Language: English
- Publisher: Make Community
- Publication Date: 2021-10-12
- ISBN-10: 1680456873
- ISBN-13: 9781680456875
- Sales Rank: #19209 (See Top 100 Books)
The first edition of Make: Electronics established a new benchmark for introductory texts. The second edition enhanced that experience, and now this third edition includes all-new diagrams throughout, new photographs, and completely rewritten text.
Learning by Discovery is a system developed by Charles Platt to enable an experience that is fascinating, fun, and memorable. You learn by building your own circuits–and by making your own mistakes.
In fact, mistakes are an important part of the experience. The book encourages you to “burn things out and mess things up” to find out for yourself the limits of electronic components. You’ll blow a fuse and watch an overloaded LED, and you can cut open a relay to see how it works inside.
Affordable Component Kits are available from independent suppliers (on Amazon), or the book explains how to shop online yourself.
Illustrations are in full color throughout, so you’ll see exactly what you need and how to use it.
While Make: Electronics minimizes the amount of theory that you need, it does show you how to figure out Ohm’s Law and do the simple math to calculate the time constant of a capacitor.
A buying guide shows basic tools ranging from pliers to a low cost multimeter. A simple “finger test” demonstrates how transistors switch or amplify current. You can solder wires, if you wish, to build a permanent circuit, although soldering is not necessary to build all the circuits in the book.
You’ll see how to use integrated circuit chips to create a simple circuit that tests the speed of your reflexes. Other circuits include a combination lock for a computer, or a game in which players compete to be the first to press a button.
All the basic concepts are demonstrated quickly and simply with affordable components. You’ll discover resistance, capacitance, voltage, amperage, inductance, and the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
Ideal for Beginners
This book assumes that you have no prior knowledge. It explains each concept in meticulous detail, and is friendly, patient, and fun. Positive reader feedback has been received from people ranging in age from 8 to 84. If you only buy one book about electronics, this should be the one.
Table of Contents Introduction: How to Have Fun with This Book Section One: The Basics Experiment 1: Taste the Power! Experiment 2: Go with the Flow Experiment 3: Applying Pressure Experiment 4: Heat and Power Experiment 5: Let’s Make a Battery Section Two: Switching Experiment 6: Getting Connected Experiment 7: Investigating a Relay Experiment 8: A Relay Oscillator Experiment 9: Time and Capacitors Experiment 10: Transistor Switching Experiment 11: Light and Sound Section Three: Soldering Experiment 12: Joining Two Wires Together Experiment 13: Roasting an LED Experiment 14: A Wearable Multivibrator Section Four: Chips, Ahoy! Experiment 15: Emitting a Pulse Experiment 16: Set Your Tone Experiment 17: An Alarming Idea Experiment 18: Reflex Tester Experiment 19: Learning Logic Experiment 20: The Unlocker Experiment 21: The Button Blocker Experiment 22: Flipping and Bouncing Experiment 23: Nice Dice Section Five: What Next? Experiment 24: Magnetism Experiment 25: Tabletop Power Generation Experiment 26: Speaker Destruction Experiment 27: Making a Coil React Experiment 28: One Radio, No Solder,No Power Experiment 29: Hardware Meets Software Experiment 30: Nicer Dice Chapter 31: The Learning Process Appendix A: Specifications Appendix B: Sources Index
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