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Practical Electronics: Components and Techniques
How much do you need to know about electronics to create something interesting, or creatively modify something that already exists? If you'd like to build an electronic device, but don't have much experience with electronics components, this hands-on workbench reference helps you find answers to technical questions quickly.
Filling the gap between a beginner's primer and a formal textbook, Practical Electronics explores aspects of electronic components, techniques, and tools that you would typically learn on the job and from years of experience. Even if you've worked with electronics or have a background in electronics theory, you're bound to find important information that you may not have encountered before.
Among the book's many topics, you'll discover how to:
Read and understand the datasheet for an electronic component
Use uncommon but inexpensive tools to achieve more professional-looking results
Select the appropriate analog and digital ICs for your project
Select and assemble various types of connectors
Do basic reverse engineering on a device in order to modify (hack) it
Use open source tools for schematic capture and PCB layout
Make smart choices when buying new or used test equipment
Filling the gap between a beginner's primer and a formal textbook, Practical Electronics explores aspects of electronic components, techniques, and tools that you would typically learn on the job and from years of experience. Even if you've worked with electronics or have a background in electronics theory, you're bound to find important information that you may not have encountered before.
Among the book's many topics, you'll discover how to:
Read and understand the datasheet for an electronic component
Use uncommon but inexpensive tools to achieve more professional-looking results
Select the appropriate analog and digital ICs for your project
Select and assemble various types of connectors
Do basic reverse engineering on a device in order to modify (hack) it
Use open source tools for schematic capture and PCB layout
Make smart choices when buying new or used test equipment
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560 pages, Paperback
First published September 25, 2014
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December 30, 2016
Nice short (trust me, 500 pages for electronics is short) book for refreshing information, for anyone who is doing or has done electronics design and testing. A bit basic in some chapters, but detailed in others, with fantastic bibliography and appendices for further reading, and lists resources that would have taken me hours to google and sift through. Did I say the appendices and biblio are awesome? Yes I shall say it again: His Appendices and Biblios are awesome.
The author, being a practical engineer, who has done lots of his own projects, he points out all the design pitfalls that otherwise would elude the hobbyist electronics geek. That alone is worth it's weight in gold - practical engineering advice.
As any excellent books on Electronics, he mentioned "Arts of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill. Any author of electronics worth his/her salt *must* include this nod to a great electronics classic. And he did.
The author, being a practical engineer, who has done lots of his own projects, he points out all the design pitfalls that otherwise would elude the hobbyist electronics geek. That alone is worth it's weight in gold - practical engineering advice.
As any excellent books on Electronics, he mentioned "Arts of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill. Any author of electronics worth his/her salt *must* include this nod to a great electronics classic. And he did.
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