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About Charles Platt
His book Easy Electronics claims to be the easiest available introduction to the field. His Make: Tools provides a hands-on introduction to workshop tools.
Platt's ambitious reference work, Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, consists of three volumes, two of which were coauthored with physicist Fredrik Jannson.
Platt was a Senior Writer for Wired magazine. As a prototype designer, he created semi-automated rapid cooling devices with medical applications, and air-deployable equipment for first responders. He was the sole author of four mathematical-graphics software packages, 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.
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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!
Want to know how to use an electronic component? This first book of a three-volume set includes key information on electronics parts for your projects—complete with photographs, schematics, and diagrams. You’ll learn what each one does, how it works, why it’s useful, and what variants exist. No matter how much you know about electronics, you’ll find fascinating details you’ve never come across before.
Convenient, concise, well-organized, and precise
Perfect for teachers, hobbyists, engineers, and students of all ages, this reference puts reliable, fact-checked information right at your fingertips—whether you’re refreshing your memory or exploring a component for the first time. Beginners will quickly grasp important concepts, and more experienced users will find the specific details their projects require.
- Unique: the first and only encyclopedia set on electronic components, distilled into three separate volumes
- Incredibly detailed: includes information distilled from hundreds of sources
- Easy to browse: parts are clearly organized by component type
- Authoritative: fact-checked by expert advisors to ensure that the information is both current and accurate
- Reliable: a more consistent source of information than online sources, product datasheets, and manufacturer’s tutorials
- Instructive: each component description provides details about substitutions, common problems, and workarounds
- Comprehensive: Volume 1 covers power, electromagnetism, and discrete semi-conductors; Volume 2 includes integrated circuits, and light and sound sources; Volume 3 covers a range of sensing devices.
Want to know how to use an electronic component? This third book of a three-volume set includes key information on electronics parts for your projects--complete with photographs, schematics, and diagrams. You'll learn what each one does, how it works, why it's useful, and what variants exist. No matter how much you know about electronics, you'll find fascinating details you've never come across before.
Perfect for teachers, hobbyists, engineers, and students of all ages, this reference puts reliable, fact-checked information right at your fingertips--whether you're refreshing your memory or exploring a component for the first time. Beginners will quickly grasp important concepts, and more experienced users will find the specific details their projects require.
Volume 3 covers components for sensing the physical world, including light, sound, heat, motion, ambient, and electrical sensors.
- Unique: the first and only encyclopedia set on electronic components, distilled into three separate volumes
- Incredibly detailed: includes information distilled from hundreds of sources
- Easy to browse: parts are clearly organized by component type
- Authoritative: fact-checked by expert advisors to ensure that the information is both current and accurate
- Reliable: a more consistent source of information than online sources, product datasheets, and manufacturer's tutorials
- Instructive: each component description provides details about substitutions, common problems, and workarounds
- Comprehensive: Volume 1 covers power, electromagnetism, and discrete semi-conductors; Volume 2 includes integrated circuits, and light and sound sources; Volume 3 covers a range of sensing devices.
Want to know how to use an electronic component? This second book of a three-volume set includes key information on electronics parts for your projects--complete with photographs, schematics, and diagrams. You'll learn what each one does, how it works, why it's useful, and what variants exist. No matter how much you know about electronics, you'll find fascinating details you've never come across before.
Perfect for teachers, hobbyists, engineers, and students of all ages, this reference puts reliable, fact-checked information right at your fingertips--whether you're refreshing your memory or exploring a component for the first time. Beginners will quickly grasp important concepts, and more experienced users will find the specific details their projects require.
Volume 2 covers signal processing, including LEDs, LCDs, audio, thyristors, digital logic, and amplification.
- Unique: the first and only encyclopedia set on electronic components, distilled into three separate volumes
- Incredibly detailed: includes information distilled from hundreds of sources
- Easy to browse: parts are clearly organized by component type
- Authoritative: fact-checked by expert advisors to ensure that the information is both current and accurate
- Reliable: a more consistent source of information than online sources, product datasheets, and manufacturer's tutorials
- Instructive: each component description provides details about substitutions, common problems, and workarounds
- Comprehensive: Volume 1 covers power, electromagnetism, and discrete semiconductors; Volume 2 includes LEDs, LCDs, audio, thyristors, digital logic, and amplification; Volume 3 covers a range of sensing devices.
Want to learn even more about electronics in a fun, hands-on way? If you finished the projects in Make: Electronics, or if you're already familiar with the material in that book, you're ready for Make: More Electronics. Right away, you'll start working on real projects, and you'll explore all the key components and essential principles through the book's collection of experiments. You'll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them!
This book picks up where Make: Electronics left off: you'll work with components like comparators, light sensors, higher-level logic chips, multiplexers, shift registers, encoders, decoders, and magnetic sensors. You'll also learn about topics like audio amplification, randomicity, as well as positive and negative feedback. With step-by-step instructions, and hundreds of color photographs and illustrations, this book will help you use -- and understand -- intermediate to advanced electronics concepts and techniques.
This is the simplest, quickest, least technical, most affordable introduction to basic electronics. No tools are necessary--not even a screwdriver. Easy Electronics should satisfy anyone who has felt frustrated by entry-level books that are not as clear and simple as they are supposed to be.
Brilliantly clear graphics will take you step by step through 12 basic projects, none of which should take more than half an hour. Using alligator clips to connect components, you see and hear immediateresults. The hands-on approach is fun and intriguing, especially for family members exploring the projects together.
The 12 experiments will introduce you to switches, resistors, capacitors, transistors, phototransistors, LEDs, audio transducers, and a silicon chip. You'll even learn how to read schematics by comparing them with the circuits that you build.
No prior knowledge is required, and no math is involved. You learn by seeing, hearing, and touching. By the end of Experiment 12, you may be eager to move on to a more detailed book. Easy Electronics will function perfectly as a prequel to the same author's bestseller, Make: Electronics.
All the components listed in the book are inexpensive and readily available from online sellers. A very affordable kit has been developed in conjunction with the book to eliminate the chore of shopping for separate parts. A QR code inside the book will take you to the vendor's web site.
Concepts include:
And more. Grab your copy and start experimenting!
Quer aprender os conceitos fundamentais de eletrônica de uma forma divertida e prática? Com o Eletrônica para Makers você começará a trabalhar em projetos reais assim que abrir o livro. Explore todos os principais componentes e princípios essenciais por meio de uma série de fascinantes experimentos. Primeiro você construirá circuitos e depois aprenderá a teoria por trás deles!
Construindo dispositivos que funcionam, do simples até o complexo
Você começará com o básico e então passará para projetos mais complicados. De circuitos de comutação a circuitos integrados, e de simples alarmes a microcontroladores programáveis.
Com instruções passo a passo e mais de 500 fotos e ilustrações coloridas, este livro irá ajudá-lo a usar e entender os conceitos e técnicas de eletrônica.
Você irá:
" Descobrir quebrando coisas: experimente com componentes e aprenda com os erros.
" Estabelecer um espaço especial para projetos: crie uma área de trabalho em casa, equipada com as ferramentas e peças necessárias.
" Aprender sobre os principais componentes eletrônicos e suas funções dentro de um circuito.
" Criar um alarme contra ladrões, enfeites luminosos de Natal, joias eletrônicas que podem ser usadas, processadores de áudio, um testador de reflexos e uma fechadura eletrônica.
" Obter explicações claras e de fácil entendimento sobre o que você está fazendo e porquê.
" É o que há de melhor em ensino!" – Hans Camenzind, inventor do temporizador 555
From the Contents:
A Brief History Of The Pack Of Cards
Methods Of Great Diviners
A Test Telling Of The Cards
Some English Methods Of Telling
Some Artistic Stars
Some Simple, But Effective Tellings
Napoleon's Card Methods
Some Unusual Methods Of Telling
The Tarot Or Divination Cards
Charles Platt liefert zu den Basiswerkzeugen und -techniken – Hämmern, Sägen, Schleifen, Bohren, Kleben – ausführliche Erläuterungen. Dabei setzt er keine Erfahrungen oder Vorkenntnisse voraus.
Indem Sie ein Holzpuzzle, einen Würfel, einen Bilderrahmen, einen Pantografen, ein Bücherregal oder eine Holzkiste bauen, üben Sie die richtige Verwendung der Werkzeuge und lernen wichtige Techniken kennen, z.B. die Konstruktion von Objekten, die richtige Verbindung von Holzteilen, den Einsatz von Gehrladen oder das Biegen von Kunststoffen. Sie erfahren alles Wichtige über Nägel, Schrauben, Holzarten, Kunststoffe, Wandbefestigungen oder Schraubzwingen.
Illustriert mit Hunderten von Farbfotos und Diagrammen dient das Buch als perfekte Einführung für Jugendliche und Erwachsene gleichermaßen
und als Referenz, auf die Sie häufig zurückgreifen werden.
Entdecke die Elektronik und verstehe ihre Gesetze durch beeindruckende Experimente: Zuerst baust du etwas zusammen (oder machst etwas absichtlich kaputt) ... dann erst kommt die Theorie!
Vom Einfachen zum Komplexen:
Du beginnst mit einfachen Anwendungen und gehst dann zügig über zu immer komplexeren Projekten: vom einfachen Stromkreis zum Integrierten Schaltkreis (IC), vom simplen Alarmsignal zum programmierbaren Mikrocontroller. Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen und über 500 farbige Abbildungen und Fotos helfen dir dabei, Elektronik einzusetzen – und zu verstehen.
Was auf dich wartet:
• Entdecken durch kaputt machen: Experimentiere mit Komponenten und lerne durch Fehler
• Schaff dir deine eigene, coole Arbeitsumgebung mit den Werkzeugen, die du wirklich brauchst
• Erwirb Wissen über elektronische Bauelemente und ihre Bedeutung für Schaltkreise
• Bau eine Alarmanlage, Lichterketten, Elektronik-Schmuck, Audioprozessoren, ein Reflextestgerät und ein Kombinationsschloss
• Erhalte klare, leicht verständliche Erklärungen über das, was du tust, und warum du es so machst.
Neu in der 2. Auflage:
• Komplett neuer Text, mit vielen neuen und überarbeiteten Projekten
• Weniger und preiswertere Elektronikkomponenten
• Jetzt auch mit Arduino-Experimenten