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Make: Electronics, 2e: Learning by Discovery Paperback – Illustrated, 18 September 2015

by Charles Platt (Author)

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"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 A "magnificent and rewarding book...Every step of this structured instruction is expertly illustrated with photos and crisp diagrams...This really is the best way to learn." --Kevin Kelly, in Cool Tools The first edition of Make: Electronics established a new benchmark for introductory texts. This second edition enhances that learning experience. Here you will find unique, photographically precise diagrams of breadboarded components, to help you build circuits with speed and precision. A new shopping guide and a simplified range of components, will minimize your investment in parts for the projects. A completely new section on the Arduino shows you how to write properly structured programs instead of just downloading other people's code. Projects have been reworked to provide additional features, and the book has been restructured to offer a step-by-step learning process that is as clear and visually pleasing on handheld devices as it is on paper. Full color is used throughout. As before, Make: Electronics begins with the basics. You'll see for yourself how components work--and what happens when they don't. You'll short out a battery and overheat an LED. You'll also open up a potentiometer and a relay to see what's inside. No other book gives you such an opportunity to learn from real-life experiences. Ultimately, you will build gadgets that have lasting value, and you'll have a complete understanding of how they work. From capacitors to transistors to microcontrollers--it's all here. Hans Camenzind, inventor of the 555 Timer (the world's most successful integrated circuit chip), said that "This is teaching at its best!" when he reviewed the first edition. Now the second edition offers even more!

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ASIN : 1680450263
Language : English
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781680450262
ISBN-13 : 978-1680450262
Reading age : 11 - 17 years

Best Sellers Rank: 26,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- 34 in Electrical & Electronics
- 59 in Manufacturing & Operational Engineering

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About the Author

Charles Platt is a Contributing Editor and regular columnist for Make magazine, where he writes about electronics. Platt was a Senior Writer for Wired magazine, has written various computer books, and has been fascinated by electronics since he put together a telephone answering machine from a tape recorder and military-surplus relays at age 15. He lives in a Northern Arizona wilderness area, where he has his own workshop for prototype fabrication and projects that he writes about for Make magazine.


	Make: Electronics	Make: More Electronics	Encyclopedia of Electronic Components: Vol. 1	Encyclopedia of Electronic Components: Vol. 2	Encyclopedia of Electronic Components: Vol. 3	Easy Electronics
Minimum Tools Required	Wire cutters, wire strippers, pliers, multimeter	Wire cutters, wire strippers, pliers, multimeter	n/a	n/a	n/a	No Tools Required
Other recommended Tools	Soldering and desoldering tools	Soldering and desoldering tools	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Includes Hands-On Experiments	✓	✓				✓
Includes Reference Charts	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Component-by-Component Reference Circuits			✓	✓	✓
Ideal for Beginners	✓	No (Read 'Make: Electronics' first)	No (Read 'Make: Electronics' first)	No (Read 'Make: Electronics' first)	No (Read 'Make: Electronics' first)	✓
Introductory Electronics Tutorial	✓					✓
Covers Fundamental Electronic Components	✓		✓	✓		✓
Advanced Logic Chips		✓		✓
Covers Sensors	✓	✓			✓

What's New in Make Electronics - 2nd Edition

'While there are some things that have barely changed at all', says author Charles Platt, others are significantly different in this edition. The new visuals are undoubtedly the thing that readers will notice first. There's color on every page now, with over 350 images.

'A new simplified section provides detailed advice on Internet searches and purchasing components', Charles says. 'I think it's a lot easier to understand than the first book, but it's still completely hands-on. Every other book on electronics starts with theory, but I start with putting a battery on your tongue-just as with the original book.'

Upgraded Projects Throughout!

The dice simulation now has a unique new circuit and can run two dice instead of one.
The burglar alarm is a new circuit with additional features.
The reaction timer is now easier to build and can be precisely calibrated.
The sound synthesizer now demonstrates the effects of coils and capacitors.
The audio amplifier is now much simpler to build.
Several new electromagnetism demonstrations.
Three completely new Arduino projects.

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Sammy

This is the perfect introduction to hands-on electronics

14 September 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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I am about a third of the way through this book and I am loving it. This is the perfect introduction to hands-on electronics. I was an engineering student in college (although not electrical engineering) so I was always kind of upset that after spending countless nights of my life doing all sorts of crazy math problems with respect to circuits, I didn't know something as simple as how a relay works, or how to build anything except maybe a simple circuit with a lightbulb and a resistor. I could design and build an RC circuit and calculate its time-constant but why in God's name I would ever NEED to build an RC circuit was beyond me...
No more. This book lets you know that its safe to rip open a relay and see exactly why it works. It will give you a circuit design and then have you build it. It will explain why something is or isn't working, and why. This won't make you an expert in electronics, it is definitely on the simple side of things (like algebraic simplifications of mathematical models that are actually rooted in calculus or differential equations), but that's exactly what I was looking for. This book will empower you to build things. I am reading it side by side with the Electricity & Magnetism chapters of my old Physics textbook so I can make the connections with the real theory and the nastier side of the math, but I really couldn't be happier. In spite of years of college, this book is just now making me feel like I know something about electronics.
Also, I recommend buying the kit that's sold for this book because it will save you a little money and a LOT of time. Amazon has been out of stock of it forever, but I went to the closest Radioshack and they had it for $75. Other than that, you will need to buy Digital Multimeter, a pair of wire strippers that can deal with 22-gauge wire, a pair of wire-cutters, a pair of needlenose pliers, and a set of precision screw drivers. Seems steep but if you plan on making use of your new-found knowledge for the foreseeable future, you will be using these tools well after you've worked through this book.

260 people found this helpful

Mich Zentner

This book is awesome for anyone starting off in electronics

12 September 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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This book is awesome for anyone starting off in electronics. I've been trying to learn from different sources online which got confusing. After reading this book, so many things I was struggling to understand were starting to come together and make sense.
There's a good amount of experiments to better your understanding of the basics. Which leads to the only part that sucks ... getting everything for those experiments. The kits they sell are super expensive!
I went the other route and got the components myself. This actually does save you some money and you'll end up with extras. For general components I purchased a few kits on amazon and for the chips I went onto digikey. The chips are less than a dollar each and shipping was less than 4 dollars and arrived a couple days after the order went through. So don't let those pricey kits get in the way of you learning the right way.

44 people found this helpful

G. Nease

Fun and very educational

20 February 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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I had studied electronics on my own as a kid, wanted to be a TV repairman in the 60's & 70's, but made a career in software instead. Nearing retirement now, I started from scratch with this book after reading the sample in Kindle. I expected to get incremental gratification from completing each breadboard experiment, but I find I am getting something more valuable than that. I am getting a sort of gut-feel that had eluded me earlier, for the behavior of components that can be counter-intuitive. So the journey turns out to be better than the milestones and destination, which is a concept that has rarely been real for me except in travel and backpacking. My enthusiasm keeps growing.

I've spoken with authors of tech books at conferences, and was told book sales rarely pay off except as advertising for the author's speaking and consulting income. Book prices and relatively small sale volumes don't compensate for the expended hours. This book and its successor (Make: More Electronics) embody a stunning amount of detail effort and thought, a testament to the enthusiasm Mr. Platt seems to find in tutoring us in electronics, and in the process of learning through experimentation.

After reading his descriptions of voltmeter features, I upgraded from my old one to the NeoTech 4000 and I am pleased so far. I also bought the pre-packaged kit #1 of parts (resistors, capacitors, LEDs etc) from Pro-Tech traders (I think) which gave a good kick-start to my dive into the material. I will price alternatives for the equivalent kits #2 and #3 before deciding whether to buy them in kit form (very convenient, but pricey) or ordering the parts individually (for which the author offers a wealth of useful help).

18 people found this helpful

Richard

Fast-Paced Introduction to Electronics

27 December 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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I just finished Chapters 1 and 2. The best thing about this book is that you start building circuits right away. Mr. Platt gives just enough theory for you to have a basic understanding of why the circuit works. On the other hand, he doesn't really give you the opportunity to test your knowledge of the components and the interactions between components; instead, you robotically build the circuits that he has designed. It would have been nice to see exercises where you take what you have learned and apply it to solve a new problem. I think exercises like this would build confidence. By the end of Chapter 2, I felt like I had an understanding of how resistors, capacitors, and transistors work, but if I were asked to design a simple circuit of my own, I wouldn't feel confident that I could.

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