Electronics All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119822114 | 963 pages | True PDF EPUB | 138 MB
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.
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rankly, the title of this chapter is a bit ambitious. Before you can do much
that’s very interesting with electronics, you need to have a basic understanding of what electricity is and how it works, but unfortunately, understanding electricity is a tall order. Don’t let this discourage or dissuade you: Even the
smartest physicists in the world don’t really understand it.
At the start of this chapter, you examine the very nature of electricity: what it is
and what causes it. This first part of the chapter will remind you of a seventh- or
eighth-grade science class, as you delve into the insides of atoms and learn about
protons, neutrons, and electrons.
The second part of this chapter introduces you to three things you have to know
about electricity if you want to design and build circuits: current, voltage, and
power — the Manny, Moe, and Jack of electricity. Or if you prefer, the Huey,
Dewey, and Louie, or the bacon, lettuce, and tomato, or the — you get the idea.
