Make: Electronics: Studying by Discovery: A hands-on primer for the brand new electronics fanatic

Great for learning hands on electronics
I decided to get back into electronics recently, though I was never close to an expert. I bought 3 books and checked others out of the library. This is by far the most useful. It really gets you in working with your hands.

Great beginners book BUT…
This has been a great way to get into electronics for me. I have pretty close to 0 background and so I wanted to start from the absolute beginning, and this book has been excellent for that. BUT, a word of caution. I will say that if you want to follow along exactly with this book, you should get the book first, and then buy one of the two kits from different companies that has the specific parts the author is talking about. They are listed in the back of the book. I purchased a kit before this book that has probably 70% of the parts he uses, but some resistors are rated slightly differently than what he uses for instance, and if you truly are starting from the beginning like I was, then all of the sudden I’m trying not only to learn what the author is saying, but also worrying about whether or not something will work because I have the wrong part or if it’s because I did something wrong. That being said, at the end of the book there is an appendix so you can buy individual parts which is what I’m looking at, but in hindsight, even though the kits aren’t cheap, it would have been so much easier and probably not much more expensive to just buy the kits pre-made. So, in summation, I recommend the book, but I wish I would have also bought the kit the author recommends. If you don’t have that kit, you won’t be able to dive right in and it’ll take some extra research and extra time to get the parts to really get into the book and follow along exactly.

The book delivered the ability to learn electronics without complications and unnecessary expenses.
When I learned electronics in school 50 years ago. It was a lot of math and theory. This book made it fun. I was able to follow along on a breadboard until the digital logic circuits. Then, I wasn’t willing to buy another kit to get those chips. The subject was explained clearly, and I didn’t feel the need to build the circuits.The introduction to microcontrollers and programming languages was a good way to end the book.

Electronics minus all the boring stuff!
If you’ve ever wanted to learn about electronics by actually engaging with the real stuff and not just reading a bunch of boring theory, buy this book and the kit (or shop around to make one yourself using the guide in the book) and just start doing the projects. This book pretty much will bring you from knowing barely anything to having a solid foundation that will allow you to explore the awesome world of electronics after completing most if not everything.You can think of Make: Electronics as like taking an electronics class if every class were a lab. Not a single part of this book will be without some sort of fun project or demonstration you can try out to get an understanding of the concept right in your own house. Of course, you won’t become an electrical engineer or professional electrician by any means, but it will give you the knowledge you need to branch out into whatever part of electronics you want to learn more about (the book has resources for that as well!). You will also gain an appreciation for the innovations and intricacies in modern electronics.

Bem sequenciado, bem diagramado, fácil de entender.

The author is easy to read, explains things clearly and answers all the questions that would naturally come to mind as you read. You can feel the author’s passion for the topic, which makes it a joy to go along for the ride.I have some experience in electronics but it’s been 15 years since I touched a resistor or capacitor. I worried that this book might be too ‘novice’ for me, but because it is written and presented so well, that hasn’t been an issue. With any topic, going back to basics with someone more knowledgeable than you will always teach you things you had forgotten or never knew, and that is exactly what this book delivers for me.

Es un buen libro para iniciarse en la electrónica. Sirve para conocer la teoría y funcionamiento de una manera práctica. Da una buena base para más tarde ampliar conocimentos por otras fuentes. La única pega es que alguno de los componentes que utiliza, al ser del mercado americano, son difícules de encontrar aquí