Make: Electronics explores the properties and applications of discrete components that are the fundamental building blocks of circuit design. Understanding resistors, capacitors, transistors, inductors, diodes, and integrated circuit chips is essential even when using microcontrollers. Make: Electronics teaches the fundamentals and also provides advice on the tools and supplies that are necessary. Component kits are available, specifically developed for the third edition.
| Introduction: How to Have Fun with This Book |
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Experiment 1 Taste the Power! |
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Experiment 2 Go with the Flow |
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Experiment 3 Applying Pressure |
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Experiment 4 Heat and Power |
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Experiment 5 Let's Make a Battery |
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Experiment 6 Getting Connected |
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Experiment 7 Investigating a Relay |
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Experiment 8 A Relay Oscillator |
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Experiment 9 Time and Capacitors |
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Experiment 10 Transistor Switching |
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Experiment 11 Light and Sound |
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Experiment 12 Joining Two Wires Together |
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Experiment 13 Roasting an LED |
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Experiment 14 A Wearable Multivibrator |
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Section Four Chips, Ahoy! |
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Experiment 15 Emitting a Pulse |
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Experiment 16 Set Your Tone |
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Experiment 17 An Alarming Idea |
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Experiment 18 Reflex Tester |
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Experiment 19 Learning Logic |
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Experiment 20 The Unlocker |
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Experiment 21 The Button Blocker |
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Experiment 22 Flipping and Bouncing |
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Experiment 25 Tabletop Power Generation |
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Experiment 26 Loudspeaker Destruction |
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Experiment 27 Making a Coil React |
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Experiment 28 One Radio, No Solder, No Power |
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Experiment 29 Hardware Meets Software |
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Chapter 31 The Learning Process |
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| Appendix A Specifications |
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| Appendix B Sources |
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| Index |
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Charles Platt is a contributing editor and regular columnist for Make: magazine, where he writes about electronics and tools. 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 the projects that he writes about for Make: magazine.
