Electronics For Dummies | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gordon Mccomb, Earl Boysen
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 12976
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0764576607
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.381
EAN: 9780764576607
ASIN: 0764576607
Publication Date: February 4, 2005
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Product Description
Want to hook up your home theater system? Want to fix it so your garage band rocks the neighborhood? Want to solder the faulty wire on your old phonograph so you can play those 60s albums you’ve kept all this time? Whether you’re a do-it-yourselfer , hobbyist, or student , this book will turn you on to real-world electronics. It quickly covers the essentials, and then focuses on the how-to instead of theory. It covers: - Fundamental concepts such as circuits, schematics, voltage, safety, and more
- Tools of the trade, including multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic probes, and more
- Common electronic components (e.g. resistors, capacitors, transistors)
- Making circuits using breadboards and printed circuit boards
- Microcontrollers (implementation and programming)
Author Gordon McComb has more than a million copies of his books in print, including his bestselling Robot Builder’s Bonanza and VCRs and Camcorders For Dummies. He really connects with readers! With lots of photos and step-by-step explanations, this book will have you connecting electronic components in no time! In fact, it includes fun ideas for great projects you can build in 30 minutes or less. You’ll be amazed! Then you can tackle cool robot projects that will amaze your friends! (The book gives you lots to choose from.) Students will find this a great reference and supplement to the typical dry, dull textbook. So whether you just want to bone up on electronics or want to get things hooked up, souped up, or fixed up,…whether you’re interested in fixing old electronic equipment, understanding guitar fuzz amps, or tinkering with robots, Electronics For Dummies is your quick connection to the stuff you need to know.
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Begin having fun with electronics projects right away Explore the basic concepts of electronics, build your electronics workbench, and create cool projects Wish you could fix that faulty doorbell, hook up a motion detector, or maybe build your very own robot? This book will really get you charged up! It won't make you an electrician, but it covers the basics, choosing and using tools, and how to build more than a dozen really cool, inexpensive gizmos. You'll be shocked at how easy it is! Discover how to -Master electricity basics -Fill up your electronics parts bin -Read circuit schematics -Test circuits with multimeters -Design your own printed circuit boards -Build robots and program their actions
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 You leave with no more than when you arrived August 7, 2008
This book does not explain enough of what is going on. It is way way way too superficial. One of the neat things about electronics is that it is not that heard to understand what is really going on, and what individual components do. That is knowledge you can build in. This book does not deliver that, despite having numerous pages devotes to the most insanely pedestrian subjects. The good tidbits here could be condensed down to a 10 page pamphlet.
Crash course July 21, 2008
I gave this book to an intern we have working for us in our sales dept. He is representing a technical product and does not have a technical background. He says that it has helped. Its on his desk with lots of bookmarks hanging out of it so it looks as though he's using it. I personally haven't opened it.
 No Good June 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After reading this book cover to cover I finished with a vague understanding of the concepts of electricity, almost no understanding of components, and absolutely no understanding of any of the projects or circuits it showed. He will go over certain concepts endlessly (like what a soldering iron is, or how a switch works) but then will leave transistors, diodes, and capacitors to be explained in a paragraph. I had to clarify everything with my own research, I am getting a different book.
 Great item. April 15, 2008
I bought this book to cram for a test for a new job. I had no previous electronics experience. I read it in a week and passed the test! Very easy to understand and peaked my interest in side projects as well.
Waste of Time January 12, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a very poorly written book. It throws a bunch of formulas at you but doesn't explain the reasons for the formulas. (I still have no idea why some parts of the book say that electrons flow from the negative terminal to the positive, and the other parts of the book say that the current flows from positive to negative. I'm sure it's not a typo, but I would love for them to actually explain it).
Furthermore, the first 9 chapters have a bunch of info, so you have to read that first in order to start your first projects. But when you get to the projects, there aren't even that many of them. And you don't learn much from them.
I don't understand why they don't start the book off with a few very simple projects and then teach you about the differenct electronic components as you get to use them. For example, they could have you build a simple circuit that makes a light shine, and then tell you how everything worked inside, and why. No, instead they go through a whole glossary of terms, and then expect you to remember it all when you're starting out your first project.
Again, if you want to understand what you're doing, so that your hobby eventually lets you create really cool stuff, this book is not good. It is a waste of time, and I would return it had I not already marke
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