Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar

by Steve Ciarcia

From the electronics workshop of Steve Ciarcia comes another group of build-it-yourself electronics projects. These easy-to-build, cost-effective fun projects originally appeared in the author's BYTE magazine column and are of great appeal to computer and electronics hobbyists.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Alex Shrugged · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the paperback, volume II. It is a book of electronics projects from BYTE Magazine by the popular author, Steve Ciarcia. He is a good writer and humorous... or at least homey. The subject is technical and the casual reader will soon become lost once the reader gets past the humorous pre-stories which are part of most of the articles. If you don't know what a line over CS means then you do not have enough background for this book. This is for the digital electronics hobbyist.

This is OLD electronics. You don't want to actually build these projects. What cost $179 when this book was published now costs less than $10 on Amazon. Yu don't read this book to save money. You read this book for the underlying principles he discusses: how does a parallel port work? What is dynamic memory vs core memory vs EPROMs vs EAPROMs. How do you make LEDs work? How do biometric instruments work at the hardware level? (I mean EEGs, EKGs etc.)

I enjoyed reading this old book, and dreaming about projects wished for but never begun.

I might read this book again for reference.