Product Description: Take your electronics skills to the next level!If you're looking for a solitary resource that covers everything you need to know about electronics, then look no further. This friendly-and-straightforward guide introduces the basics of electronics and enhances your learning experience by debunking and explaining concepts such as circuits, analog and digital, schematics, voltage, safety concerns, and more...read more

Product Description: Join today’s new revolution in creativity and community: hackerspaces. Stop letting other people build everything for you: Do it yourself. Explore, grab the tools, get hands-on, get dirty…and create things you never imagined you could...read more

Product Description: Start building electronics projects with Netduino, the popular open source hardware platform that’s captured the imagination of makers and hobbyists worldwide. This easy-to-follow book provides the step-by-step guidance you need to experiment with Netduino and the ...read more

Discusses tools and equipment, components, techniques and procedures, and safety, and includes ideas for projects.

Electronics is fascinating – want to make something of it? This book shows you how!You can make all sorts of things, once you understand what electronics is and how it works.   This book helps you out with that part, explaining the whole thing in plain English. Learn how electricity functions, how to harness it and put it to work, what tools you need to build circuits, what you can make with them, and how to do it safely.Mystery solved – understand what makes your iPod, remote control, and computer workEssential stuff – outfit your electronics lab with all the necessary tools, including some that will surprise youSchematic road maps – learn to read schematics and understand how they help your project get where it’s goingSymbols of power – recognize all the identifiers for power sources, grounds, and componentsTools of the trade – discover how to use a multimeter, logic probe, oscilloscope, and solderless breadboardBreak it down – get to know the ins and outs of components such as resistors, capacitors ,diodes and transistorsGetting it together – find out how integrated circuits make all the rest possible and learn to work with them& Analyze it – understand the rules that govern current and voltage and learn how to apply themOpen the book and find:The difference between electronics and electricityA list of essential toolsCool projects you can build quicklyGreat places to find partsImportant safety tipsWhat a sine wave isInteresting stuff about speakers, buzzers, and DC motorsOhm’s Law and how to use it

Product Description: Have some evil fun inside your head!This wickedly inventive guide offers 19 build-it-yourself projects featuring high-tech devices that can map, manipulate, and even improve the greatest computer on earth-the human brain. Every project inside Mind Performance Projects for the Evil Genius is perfectly safe and explores cutting-edge concepts, such as brain wave mapping, lucid dream control, and hypnosis...read more

Product Description: Unless you live in a haunted house, the eyes on your paintings probably don’t follow you around. However, with a couple of motion sensors, two motors, a few transistors, resistors, diodes, and wires you can convert a Van Gogh print into a macabre masterpiece with a mind of its own...read more

Product Description: THE BOOK THAT MAKES ELECTRONICS MAKE SENSE This intuitive, applications-driven guide to electronics for hobbyists, engineers, and students doesn't overload readers with technical detail. Instead, it tells you-and shows you-what basic and advanced electronics parts and components do, and how they work...read more

Product Description: Learn the fundamentals of electronics and circuitry while working on 21 fun projects Here are twenty-one science projects that teach you the fundamentals of electronics and circuitry, how to read schematics, solder, use tools, and construct circuits - while you have fun putting making your own electronic games...read more

Provides instructions for building ten electronic gadgets, including an AM radio, an infrared go-kart, a metal detector, and a parabolic microphone.

Product Description: This much anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular cultclassic Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius gives basement experimenters 40 all-new projects to tinker with. Following the tried-and-true Evil Genius Series format, each project includes a detailed list of materials, sources for parts, schematics, documentation, and lots of clear, well-illustrated instructions for easy assembly...read more

Product Description: The do-it-yourself hobbyist market, particularly in the area of electronics, is hotter than ever. This books gives the “evil genius” loads of projects to delve into, from an ultrasonic microphone, to a body heat detector, and all the way to a Star Wars Light Saber...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Analog electronics is the simplest way to start a fun, informative, learning program. Beginning Analog Electronics Through Projects, Second Edition was written with the needs of beginning hobbyists and students in mind. This revision of Andrew Singmin's popular Beginning Electronics Through Projects provides practical exercises, building techniques, and ideas for useful electronics projects. Additionally, it features new material on analog and digital electronics, and new projects for troubleshooting test equipment. Published in the tradition of Beginning Electronics Through Projects and Beginning Digital Electronics Through Projects, this book limits theory to "need-to-know" information that will allow you to get started right away without complex math. Commonly used electronic components and their functions are described briefly in everyday terms. Ideal for progressive learning, each of the projects builds on the theory and component knowledge developed in earlier chapters. Step-by-step instructions facilitate one's learning of techniques for component identification, soldering, troubleshooting, and much more. Includes instructions for using a general purpose assembly boardPractical, enjoyable, useful approach to learning about electronicsFeatures twelve easy and useful projects designed to familiarize beginners and hobbyists with the most commonly used ICs.

Product Description: Here it is--a collection of Forrest Mims's classic work from the Modern Electronics magazine! Using commonly available components and remarkable ingenuity, Forrest shows you how to build and experiment with circuits like these:analog comparators audio synthesizers data loggers fiber optic sensors laser diode devices MOSFET oscillators piezoelectronics power electronics programmable function generators pulse generators radio control systems and much, much, more! -analog comparators -audio synthesizers -data logger...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Practical Audio Amplifier Circuit Projects builds on the introduction to electronic circuits provided in Singmin's innovative and successful first book, Beginning Electronics Through Projects. Both books draw on the author's many years of experience as electronics professional and as hobbyist...read more

Product Description: Fred's explanations are clear, readable, and friendly. Each project comes with a complete discussion of circuit theory, circuit board and parts placement layouts, excellent hints on building and testing each circuit, suggestions for packaging, and a complete parts list...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presents the reader with many projects about home security, safety and nuisance elimination that can easily be built in the reader’s own home for less than the cost to buy them ready-made. Readers will be able to construct many security devices with the aid of this text.

Product Description: If you are interested in electronics, but don't know where to start, Beginning Electronics Through Projects lets you learn the basics through building 10 step-by-step projects. Theory is limited to "need-to-know" information that will allow you to get started right away...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents a collection of experiments and projects demonstrating how optical circuits can be applied in practical and efficient ways in the home and surrounding environment (view table of contents)

Product Description: Do-it-yourself electronics projects from the most basic to the fairly sophisticated. You'll find station accessories for VHF Fming, working OSCAR satellites, fun on HF, trying CW, building simple antennas, even a complete working HF station you can build for $100...read more

Product Description: At last! The nuts and bolts of building robotics. . .MECHANICAL DEVICES FOR THE ELECTRONICS EXPERIMENTER Here's the book electronics experimenters have been waiting for. . .a how-to book for designing and fabricating the mechnical devices for motion and positioning in robotic applications--as well as others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This manual contains 30 telephone improvements. Projects feature step-by-step instructions, a schematic diagram, complete parts list and parts layout diagram. They include an ear-piece amplifier and flashing-ring projects for the hearing-impaired...read more

Product Description: Contains popular laser projects and also more unusual projects like a bio-feedback/lie detector. It also features a Geiger counter and cloud chamber project. All projects have been built and tested by the author.

Product Description: This is an all-in-one guide to electronic component specifications and applications. With this handy benchtop reference, you'll have at your fingertips a one-stop source of practical information on virtually every kind of electronic component...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)