Electronics All-in-One For Dummies

Doug Lowe

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Wiley
08 April 2022

Mathematics & Sciences; Electronics & communications engineering

"Open up a world of electronic possibilities with the easiest ""how-to"" guide available today If you're looking for a new hobby that's tons of fun—and practical to boot—electronics might be right up your alley. And getting started has never been easier!

In Electronics All-in-One For Dummies, you'll find a plethora of helpful information, from tinkering with basic electronic components to more advanced subjects like working with digital electronics and Arduino microprocessors.

Whether you're just getting started and trying to learn the difference between a circuit board and a breadboard, or you've got a handle on the fundamentals and are looking to get to the next level of electronics mastery, this book has the tools, techniques, and step-by-step guides you need to achieve your goals—and have a blast doing it! You'll learn:

Critical safety tips and strategies to keep yourself and your environment protected while you work Useful schematics for everyday devices you can put to work immediately, like animated holiday lights and animatronic prop controllers How to work with alternating current, direct current, analog, digital, and car electronics, as well as Raspberry Pi technologies

Perfect for anyone who's ever looked at a circuit board and thought to themselves, ""I wonder how that works?"", Electronics All-in-One For Dummies is your go-to guide to getting a grip on some of the coolest electronic technologies on the market."

By: Doug Lowe
Imprint: Wiley
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 3rd Edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 185mm, Spine: 58mm
Weight: 1.225kg
ISBN: 9781119822110
ISBN 10: 1119822114
Pages: 960
Publication Date: 08 April 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1 Book 1: Getting Started with Electronics 7 Chapter 1: Welcome to Electronics 9 Chapter 2: Understanding Electricity 21 Chapter 3: Creating Your Mad-Scientist Lab 37 Chapter 4: Staying Safe 61 Chapter 5: Reading Schematic Diagrams 71 Chapter 6: Building Projects 85 Chapter 7: The Secrets of Successful Soldering 121 Chapter 8: Measuring Circuits with a Multimeter 133 Chapter 9: Catching Waves with an Oscilloscope 149 Book 2: Working with Basic Electronic Components 161 Chapter 1: Working with Basic Circuits 163 Chapter 2: Working with Resistors 203 Chapter 3: Working with Capacitors 235 Chapter 4: Working with Inductors 261 Chapter 5: Working with Diodes and LEDs 275 Chapter 6: Working with Transistors 301 Book 3: Working with Integrated Circuits 331 Chapter 1: Introducing Integrated Circuits 333 Chapter 2: The Fabulous 555 Timer Chip 345 Chapter 3: Working with Op-Amps 383 Book 4: Beyond Direct Current 403 Chapter 1: Getting into Alternating Current 405 Chapter 2: Building Power Supplies 429 Chapter 3: Understanding Radio 441 Chapter 4: Working with Infrared 467 Book 5: Doing Digital Electronics 485 Chapter 1: Understanding Digital Electronics 487 Chapter 2: Getting Logical 503 Chapter 3: Working with Logic Circuits 523 Chapter 4: Working with Flip-Flops 561 Chapter 5: Introducing Microcontrollers 591 Book 6: Working with Arduino Microprocessors 597 Chapter 1: Introducing Arduino 599 Chapter 2: Creating Arduino Sketches 615 Chapter 3: More Arduino Programming Tricks 647 Chapter 4: An Arduino Proximity Sensor 665 Chapter 5: Adding Sound and Motion to Your Arduino Projects 681 Chapter 6: Keypads and Keyboards 711 Book 7: Working with Raspberry Pi 735 Chapter 1: Introducing Raspberry Pi 737 Chapter 2: Programming in Python 759 Chapter 3: Reading Digital and Analog Input 791 Book 8: Special Effects 813 Chapter 1: Building a Color Organ 815 Chapter 2: Animating Holiday Lights 827 Chapter 3: Building an Animatronic Prop Controller 851 Chapter 4: Re-Creating a Retro Science-Fiction Robot Head 881 Index 893

Doug Lowe is the information technology director at Blair, Church & Flynn Consulting Engineers, a civil engineering firm. He has written more than 50 For Dummies books on topics ranging from Java to electronics to PowerPoint.