Electronics For Dummies
Publisher : Wiley
Author : Gordon McComb and Earl Boysen
ISBN :0-7645-7660-7
Year :2005
pages:416
Format :PDF
Size : 19.2 MB
Are you thinking about building your own electronic gizmos? Ever wonder how transistors, capacitors, and other building blocks of electronics work? Do you have an interest in finding out how to solder or make your own
circuit boards? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Electronics For Dummies is the key that opens the fun and exciting door of modern electronics. No dry and boring tome, this; what you hold in your hands is a book that gives you just what you need to know to make and troubleshoot your own electronic gadgets.
How This Book Is Organized
Electronics For Dummies is organized so that you can quickly find, read, and understand the information that you want. It’s also organized so that if you have some experience with electronics, you can skip chapters and move on to the parts that interest you.
The chapters in this book are divided into parts that also help you find the information that you’re looking for quickly and easily.
Part I: Getting Started in Electronics
Start with Part I if you’re brand-spanking new to electronics. Because this book is designed to get you on the road to electronics as quickly as possible, this part has only two chapters, an overall introduction to electronics concepts and safety information. Please read Chapter 2, “Keeping Humans and Gadgets Safe,” even if you decide to skip the introduction to electronics you find in Chapter 1.
Part II: Aisle 5, Component Shack: Stocking Up
If you’re just starting out in electronics, you probably need a couple of tools. Read about the most important ones in Chapter 3, “Outfitting Your Electronics Bench.” You can’t make a project out of thin air. You need resistors, diodes, capacitors, and other building blocks of today’s electronics. Chapters 4 and 5 explain
what each of the most important electronics components does and how often you use each in building a circuit.
Part III: Putting It on Paper
If you’ve ever seen an electronics diagram, you probably thought it looked like Egyptian hieroglyphics. In Chapter 6, we explain all about how to read these diagrams (they’re called schematics), and you can discover how to follow a schematic to determine the basic functionality of a circuit in Chapter 7.
Part IV: Getting Your Hands Dirty
At this point, you’re ready to start building your own electronics projects. The chapters in Part IV tell you how to solder and how to use three of the most important testing tools in electronics — the multimeter, logic probe,
and oscilloscope. You don’t absolutely need the last two to get started with electronics, so you can come back to Chapter 10 a few months from now if you’re just starting out.
Part V: A Plethora of Projects
In Chapters 11 and 12, we demonstrate how to build your own circuits. We cover how to construct temporary circuits on something called a solderless breadboard. Then you discover how to produce permanent circuits using several methods, or by designing and ordering printed circuit boards from a supplier. Chapter 13 introduces you to the exciting universe of microcontrollers, electronic circuits that you can program to do any of a million things.
And finally, in Chapters 14 and 15, you can play with over a dozen fun (and not too complicated!) projects that you can build yourself.
Part VI: The Part of Tens
This part contains several chapters laid out in top-ten-list format. Here, you explore some optional testing tools that you can add to your electronics bench as you gain more experience; get advice about where to find electronics parts; and finally, study useful electronics formulas that don’t require a degree in math.
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