Make: Electronics: Learning by Discovery: A hands-on primer for the new electronics enthusiast
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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.
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Publisher : Make Community, LLC; 3rd edition (October 26, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 325 pages
ISBN-10 : 1680456873
ISBN-13 : 978-1680456875
Reading age : 9 – 17 years
Item Weight : 1.39 pounds
Dimensions : 8 x 0.68 x 9.75 inches
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Amazon Customer –
Very exciting book, a real page turner. Couldnât put it down!
Iâve never learned so much from a single book before! Highly recommend this as well as getting all the parts from protechtraders. The learning journey would have been so much more tedious if I tried to wrap my head around shopping for all the parts separately. Itâs true it probably costs a bit extra but itâs worth it! And now if I ever need any parts Iâll be less overwhelmed and know exactly what to get!
Amazon Customer –
Great for learning hands on electronics
I decided to get back into electronics recently, though I was never close to an expert. I bought 3 books and checked others out of the library. This is by far the most useful. It really gets you in working with your hands.
Amazon Customer –
Utterly fantastic!
This book is incredible. I can’t recommend it highly enough! It takes something complicated and breaks it down to be understandable by anyone!
Eli Clark –
Great beginners book BUT…
This has been a great way to get into electronics for me. I have pretty close to 0 background and so I wanted to start from the absolute beginning, and this book has been excellent for that. BUT, a word of caution. I will say that if you want to follow along exactly with this book, you should get the book first, and then buy one of the two kits from different companies that has the specific parts the author is talking about. They are listed in the back of the book. I purchased a kit before this book that has probably 70% of the parts he uses, but some resistors are rated slightly differently than what he uses for instance, and if you truly are starting from the beginning like I was, then all of the sudden I’m trying not only to learn what the author is saying, but also worrying about whether or not something will work because I have the wrong part or if it’s because I did something wrong. That being said, at the end of the book there is an appendix so you can buy individual parts which is what I’m looking at, but in hindsight, even though the kits aren’t cheap, it would have been so much easier and probably not much more expensive to just buy the kits pre-made. So, in summation, I recommend the book, but I wish I would have also bought the kit the author recommends. If you don’t have that kit, you won’t be able to dive right in and it’ll take some extra research and extra time to get the parts to really get into the book and follow along exactly.
Mayhem –
Outstanding Clarity, Illustrations & Teaching By Charles Platt – This is the Starting Book you want!
For many years I have been interested in learning electronics, and I have purchased what feels like over a dozen different books, kits or online courses. The material in nearly all of them were written by engineers and it felt like for engineers. Just could not get into them. Additionally, many of the other kits and courses force your to learn Arduios, which I am not against at a future date, but for right now, I want to understand the basics of schematics and working with breadboards. I want to learn the components, what they do and how to plan to use them. I want instruction using a basic multi-meter. Happy to learn about Arduino’s later. Just not what I am still wrapping my mind around the basics.Determined, I decided to just start buying all of the beginner books out there until I found an instructor whose style resonated with me. THIS IS THE BOOK! Just WOW! Such clarity and simplicity to understand. Charles Platt clearly understands how to take a complex subject matter and make it palpable for a beginner like me. That is also not to say his understanding is surface level, he has a very DEEP understanding of electronics and has many additional books on the subject.Suffice it to say, I study his book EVERY MORNING now and am LOVING it. There are some things I need to re-read, but I definitely am having much more success with Make:Electronics 3rd Edition. (Always get the latest editions!)Also, there is an electronics component kit that comes with this book. I highly, HIGHLY recommend getting this kit as well, so you can physically create the breadboards and learn hands on as you go. You will be at a huge learning disadvantage if you do not do these experiments.Thank you Charles Platt! As a teacher myself, I appreciate the effort you have taken to make this difficult subject matter so accessible- I appreciate you!
Joseph Holt –
Helps figure components
This is a little above me just learning
Gary Whitney –
The book delivered the ability to learn electronics without complications and unnecessary expenses.
When I learned electronics in school 50 years ago. It was a lot of math and theory. This book made it fun. I was able to follow along on a breadboard until the digital logic circuits. Then, I wasn’t willing to buy another kit to get those chips. The subject was explained clearly, and I didn’t feel the need to build the circuits.The introduction to microcontrollers and programming languages was a good way to end the book.
VM –
Electronics minus all the boring stuff!
If you’ve ever wanted to learn about electronics by actually engaging with the real stuff and not just reading a bunch of boring theory, buy this book and the kit (or shop around to make one yourself using the guide in the book) and just start doing the projects. This book pretty much will bring you from knowing barely anything to having a solid foundation that will allow you to explore the awesome world of electronics after completing most if not everything.You can think of Make: Electronics as like taking an electronics class if every class were a lab. Not a single part of this book will be without some sort of fun project or demonstration you can try out to get an understanding of the concept right in your own house. Of course, you won’t become an electrical engineer or professional electrician by any means, but it will give you the knowledge you need to branch out into whatever part of electronics you want to learn more about (the book has resources for that as well!). You will also gain an appreciation for the innovations and intricacies in modern electronics.
J Manoel –
Bem sequenciado, bem diagramado, fácil de entender.
Ishan –
I haven’t start to read yet. Quality of the book is good
Leigh –
The author is easy to read, explains things clearly and answers all the questions that would naturally come to mind as you read. You can feel the author’s passion for the topic, which makes it a joy to go along for the ride.I have some experience in electronics but it’s been 15 years since I touched a resistor or capacitor. I worried that this book might be too ‘novice’ for me, but because it is written and presented so well, that hasn’t been an issue. With any topic, going back to basics with someone more knowledgeable than you will always teach you things you had forgotten or never knew, and that is exactly what this book delivers for me.
Kindle Customer –
The book is excellent but price is too too much.
JOAN S. DURAN –
Es un buen libro para iniciarse en la electrónica. Sirve para conocer la teorÃa y funcionamiento de una manera práctica. Da una buena base para más tarde ampliar conocimentos por otras fuentes. La única pega es que alguno de los componentes que utiliza, al ser del mercado americano, son difÃcules de encontrar aquÃ