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1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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Contents |
1. Experiencing Electricity -- Shopping List: Experiments 1 Through 5 -- Experiment 1: Taste the Power! -- Experiment 2: Let's Abuse a Battery! -- Experiment 3: Your First Circuit -- Experiment 4: Varying the Voltage -- Experiment 5: Let's Make a Battery -- 2. Switching Basics and More -- Shopping List: Experiments 6 Through 11 -- Experiment 6: Very Simple Switching -- Experiment 7: Relay-Driven LEDs -- Experiment 8: A Relay Oscillator -- Experiment 9: Time and Capacitors -- Experiment 10: Transistor Switching -- Experiment 11: A Modular Project -- 3. Getting Somewhat More Serious -- Shopping List: Experiments 12 Through 15 -- Experiment 12: Joining Two Wires Together -- Experiment 13: Broil an LED -- Experiment 14: A Pulsing Glow -- Experiment 15: Intrusion Alarm Revisited -- 4. Chips, Ahoy! -- Shopping List: Experiments 16 Through 24 -- Experiment 16: Emitting a Pulse -- Experiment 17: Set Your Tone -- Experiment 18: Reaction Timer -- Experiment 19: Learning Logic -- Experiment 20: A Powerful Combination -- Experiment 21: Race to Place -- Experiment 22: Flipping and Bouncing -- Experiment 23: Nice Dice -- Experiment 24: Intrusion Alarm Completed -- 5. What Next? -- Shopping List: Experiments 25 Through 36 -- Experiment 25: Magnetism -- Experiment 26: Tabletop Power Generation -- Experiment 27: Loudspeaker Destruction -- Experiment 28: Making a Coil React -- Experiment 29: Filtering Frequencies -- Experiment 30: Fuzz -- Experiment 31: One Radio, No Solder, No Power -- Experiment 32: A Little Robot Cart -- Experiment 33: Moving in Steps -- Experiment 34: Hardware Meets Software -- Experiment 35: Checking the Real World -- Experiment 36: The Lock, Revisited -- In Closing -- A. Online Retail Sources and Manufacturers. |
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Includes list of online retail sources and manufacturers (pages 319-321), and index. |
Summary |
""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 fu. |
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English. |
Subject |
Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.
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Electronics -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.
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Electronic circuit design -- Amateurs' manuals.
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Appareils électroniques -- Conception et construction -- Manuels d'amateurs. |
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Circuits électroniques -- Calcul -- Manuels d'amateurs. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Digital. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Microelectronics. |
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Electronic circuit design |
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Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Design and construction |
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Electronics -- Design and construction |
Genre |
Handbooks and manuals
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Other Form: |
Print version: Make: electronics. Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2009, ©2010 9780596153748 (OCoLC)436264426 |
ISBN |
9781449389239 (electronic bk.) |
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1449389236 (electronic bk.) |
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(pbk.) |
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(pbk.) |
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1449388795 |
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9781449388799 |
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