MAKE: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery
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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
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Customer Reviews
J. Vanwechel Said: Overall beatific aggregation but the communicator is incorrect on whatever of the theory Jul. 16th 2010
The author uses an outdated analogy of electricity using a water cell to equal the batteries, and its this faith that belike causes him to get the definition wrong on whatever physical quantities. I don't conceive it will cause some problem if your are meet interested in plaything ingest and not interested in theory, still if you want a more faithful understanding of theory I would declare that you countenance at a physics text. Or at least countenance up the terms on wikipedia.
In housing you're fascinated here are whatever of the errors I found, but I rattling would propose that you countenance it up in text or on wikipedia where the person is explained more understandably and in more discourse : on pg 36. He started by locution that electrical potential is measured in coulombs and is a measured by adding up charges, patch it is genuine that coulombs are a measure of charge, electrical possibleness is NOT charge - the disagreement in electrical possibleness between to points is commonly referred to as voltage, and what is it measures is how such a live particles electrical potential forcefulness would change if touched from the first saucer to the ordinal saucer so 1 volt = 1 joule per coulomb . If you want to ingest a fluid faith in a circuit the charge stays on the conductors so they are like pikes, so you would have to picture a winking changeful system. Voltage would be similar to height, electrical force would be similar to the force of somberness or weight. The shelling would be similar to a pump, that would displace the water to a destined height, and the liquid liquid down through pipes is analogous to the circuit. So meet as when liquid drops in height it converts its attraction potential energy into other forms of energy such as inspire status to do work same a reddened bulb or a locomote or to kinetic energy. The electrical similarity to changeful flow rate is current manoeuvre in units charge per units time, 1 amp = 1 coulomb / ordinal . A watt is NOT a measure of energy, a joule is a measure of energy and a volt is 1 joule / coulomb watt is a manoeuvre of power think horsepower and 1 watt = 1 joule / second. Work is a measure of a obligate finished a indifference and is measure in newton meters, but here is the key: impact doesn't come out of nowhere, energy is used to produce work, so 1 newton cadence = 1 joule if you poverty to derive them they are both kg times meters squared over seconds squared .
Another abstract he says is that if you place to batteries in nonconvergent it doubles the current but this is ravishment of Ohms law, if the batteries are in nonconvergent the emf is the aforementioned as if you had just digit shelling so by ohms law V=I/R if V is constant then R is unceasing because real batteries hit interior resistance, if that is the important maker of status in your circuit, then yes the underway would effectively threefold but in a typical journeying the batteries internal status crapper be ignored, and underway would rest roughly unceasing What generally happens if you hook up two batteries in nonconvergent is they would terminal twice as long as if you had meet digit since apiece battery stores roughly the same turn of energy in the form of electrons stored in the alchemy so by using threefold the batteries you threefold the sort of electrons available and by Ohm's accumulation you use the electrons at the aforementioned evaluate underway aka amperage .
Ohms accumulation also explains why if you hit near zero status even wires hit whatever resistance that your shelling drains really quickly, the underway goes up since there is little status to ready the electrons where they are, so basically the electrons yield the shelling as quickly as the alchemy in the shelling is confident of emotional them so the shelling drains very quickly, its this huge number of electrons moving through the accommodate in a relatively short amount of time that cause all the heat.
Jeremiah Towe Said: BEST locate to start Jun. 24th 2010
I got this aggregation intellection I knew the principle of electronics. Well, I didn't. This book takes you backwards to basics and builds your noesis from that CORRECTLY. Amazing book!
Jack G. Atkinson Jr. Said: Where was this aggregation when I was in college or before even that?!!! Jun. 3rd 2010
Here am I, over 30 with a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering. I garner up this book because one period I would same to teach my son electronics, and before that inform whatever homeschool classes in my area on electronics. I was completely astonished at how substantially this book is ordered out for doctrine someone newborn to electronics! I remember my earlier days in junior broad when my technician granddad gave me an electronic kit that sat on my ridge aggregation dust, because the drill was just awful. I sure desire I had this aggregation backwards then! I would have also have prefabricated a enthusiastic introductory electronics collection in college, instead of all that dull theory the professor droned on and on about every period then go to work and stare at the breadboard. I prefabricated straight A's in those early classes, but not very confidently and no thanks to the professor.
The books does a wonderful employ of building upon concepts and agitated onto the incoming without jumping likewise far out ahead. It has some nice historical asides in the sidebars about inventors and scientists for a special touch. The downside is getting all the parts for the experiments, so I recommend you cough up the dough to intend the Maker's kits that go with the lessons if you don't poverty to spend a aggregation of time arrangement and searching. However, ordering and intelligent for those parts is another activity in itself, because digit must eventually learn to acquire these items if they want to do more electronics impact in the future.
Overall, this book is worth the money!
Brooke T. Hedrick Said: Excellent getting started in electronics book May. 6th 2010
This aggregation is great for getting started in electronics. It starts soured basic, but pad in and gets engrossing rattling quickly. It includes superior color illustrations and an cushy to read copy.
Imran Sharafat Said: Great book for beginers Apr. 14th 2010
I got this aggregation for my decade year old son who has been tinkering with electronics for the past few years. This book is very substantially cursive for grouping with rattling little or no background in electronics theory. Author uses pictures and humor to attain the subject interesting. For each lesson and concept there is an experiment. I have a large library of books on electronics but over every this is prizewinning book I hit found to inform some digit basic energy and electronics.