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Make: Electronics Learning by Discovery Charles Platt with photographs and illustrations by the author Beijing • Cambridge • Far ...

Make: Electronics by Charles Platt Copyright © Helpful Corporation. All rights reserved. Printed in Canada. Published by O’Reill ...

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Experiencing Electricity Preface .........................................ix Shopping List: Experiments 1 Through Ex ...

ix Preface How to Have Fun with This Book Everyone uses electronic devices, but most of us don’t really know what goes on inside ...

How Hard Will It Be? x Preface Learning by discovery occurs in serious research, when scientists notice an un- usual phenomenon ...

Preface xi Fundamentals Moving Through This Book Basically there are two ways to present information in a book of this kind: in ...

Fundamentals xii Preface http://www.newark.com Newark. Mouser, Digi-Key, and Newark are all good sources for components, usually ...

Preface xiii Safari® Books Online Companion Kits Maker Shed (www.makershed.com) offers a number of Make: Electronics companion k ...

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1 1 Experiencing Electricity I want you to get a taste for electricity—literally!—in the first experiment. This first chapter of ...

Shopping List: Experiments 1 Through 5 2 Chapter 1 Wire cutters RadioShack Kronus 4.5-inch, part number 64-2951, or Stanley 7-in ...

Experiencing Electricity 3 Shopping List: Experiments 1 Through 5 On a manual-ranging meter, you select the range, and if the so ...

Shopping List: Experiments 1 Through 5 4 Chapter 1 Battery holder for four AA cells, with wires attached (Figure 1-10). Quan- ti ...

Experiencing Electricity 5 Experiment 1: Taste the Power! Experiment 1: Taste the Power! Can you taste electricity? Maybe not, b ...