Make: Electronics: Learning by Discovery: A hands-on primer for the new electronics enthusiast

by Charles Platt

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680456875
Publisher:	Make Community, LLC
Publication date:	10/12/2021
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	325
Sales rank:	399,385
Product dimensions:	9.70(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	9 - 17 Years

About the Author

Charles Platt is a contributing editor and regular columnist for Make: magazine, where he writes about electronics and tools. Platt was a senior writer for Wired magazine, has written various computer books, and has been fascinated by electronics since he put together a telephone answering machine from a tape recorder and military-surplus relays at age 15. He lives in a Northern Arizona wilderness area, where he has his own workshop for prototype fabrication and the projects that he writes about for Make: magazine.