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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>http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/0636920026105.do</p>
<p>Lan</p>
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<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>
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