Electronics For Dummies
 | For Dummies, 2005, Paperback Customer Rating: 35 reviews Recommend |
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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.
Title: Electronics For Dummies
Sales Rank: 7471 in Books
Author: Gordon McComb, Earl Boysen
Publisher: For Dummies, 1 edition, 2005-02-04, Paperback, 432 pages, ISBN: 0764576607
Package Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches, 1.35 pounds
- Very handy
- I picked this up because I needed to learn some fundamentals about electricity. I actually bought my first copy (which my dog ate and had to be replaced) at a retail store, so I got to do a side by side comparison with other "beginner" type books. The dummies guide gave the most basic, but not dumb introductions to the basic components and theories of electricity.
If you… More reviews
- Great book...period.
- Very good book.
If you are a student, a hobbyist, or an aspiring electrician, this is the book to start with. More reviews
- You leave with no more than when you arrived
- 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… More reviews
- Crash course
- 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.… More reviews
- No Good
- 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… More reviews
