<div dir="ltr"><div>The Make: Electronics book is available from LAPL. I think there are multiple copies, one of which is currently on my desk ;)<br><br><br></div>It's a great resource for simple project ideas to explore different aspects of theory.<br>
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<div>I would to preview the book, as I want to become familiar with electronics too. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Lan Dang <<a href="mailto:l.dang@ymail.com" target="_blank">l.dang@ymail.com</a>>이 씀:<div><div class="h5">
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<p>Good to hear from you! Thanks for coming to our meetings when we were first starting out. You will always be a member of the group, no matter the distance. Hope to see you at SCALE next year.</p>
<p>I got the book today. It is very approachable and I am already learning things that I only half-knew before, like how to use a multimeter to measure resistance and how to read a resistor's color coding. I needed something like this as a starting point because I sometimes have difficulty with certain concepts unless I can see it in action.</p>
<p>I guess it's time to put together a kit of electronic components to play with. I'll bring the book to HAK if anyone is interested in looking through it.</p>
<p>I think there is a sequel to the book, but I can't remember when or if it has come out yet.</p>
<p>Charles Platt is putting out a 3-volume illustrated encyclopedia of electronic components. I think volume 2 came out recently. Here is the link for volume 1.</p>
<p><a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/0636920026105.do" target="_blank">http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/0636920026105.do</a></p>
<p>Lan</p>
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Lan Dang writes:<br>> I bought a book called "Make: Electronics" by Charles Platt, which I am hoping will be the right introductory book to help me understand electronic components and how to put them together. Still waiting for it to come in the mail.<br>
<br>I bought that book a year or two ago and like it a lot -- definitely<br>the best electronics book I've seen. All the others I've tried<br>(quite a few) are heavy on theory, like how to calculate the<br>resistance in a network where you have one DC and one AC voltage<br>
source at different places in the circuit. Stuff I have no interest<br>in ever doing. Make: Electronics is more like, here, buy these two<br>chips, and wire them up in these ways -- here's what they do and why.<br>Wish I'd had it years ago. In a few cases I wished he'd chosen a<br>
slightly different part that I was more interested
in instead of<br>the one he chose, but
that's a pretty minor complaint. I think<br>you'll like it. I confess I still get confused about when I need<br>to add a capacitors or resistors to my circuits, though. :-)<br><br>(Sorry I stopped coming to meetings -- we sold my mother's house so I<br>
no longer have ties to the LA area, but I stayed on the list because<br>SGVHAK is awesome and we don't have any comparable groups in the<br>bay area. Hope you don't mind!)<br><br> ...Akkana<br></td></tr></tbody></table>
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