xii, 334 pages : 25 cm Overview: The first edition of Make: Electronics established a new benchmark for introductory texts. This second edition enhances that learning experience. Here you will find unique, photographically precise diagrams of bread boarded components, to help you build circuits with speed and precision. A new shopping guide and a simplified range of components, will minimize your investment in parts for the projects. A completely new section on the Arduino shows you how to write properly structured programs instead of just downloading other people's code. Projects have been reworked to provide additional features, and the book has been restructured to offer a step-by-step learning process that is as clear and visually pleasing on handheld devices as it is on paper. Full color is used throughout. As before, Make: Electronics begins with the basics. You'll see for yourself how components work-and what happens when they don't. You'll short out a battery and overheat an LED. You'll also open up a potentiometer and a relay to see what's inside. No other book gives you such an opportunity to learn from real-life experiences. Ultimately, you will build gadgets that have lasting value, and you'll have a complete understanding of how they work. From capacitors to transistors to microcontrollers-it's all here Originally published: Sebastopol, Calif.: Maker Media/O'Reilly, 2009 "A hands-on primer for the new electronics enthusiast"--Cover Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-243) and index What's new in the Second Edition -- Preface: How to have fun with this book -- Basics: -- Necessary Items For Chapter One: -- Experiment 1: Taste the power! -- Experiment 2: Let's abuse a battery! -- Experiment 3: Your first circuit -- Experiment 4: Variable resistance -- Experiment 5: Let's make a battery -- Switching: -- Necessary Items For Chapter Two: -- Experiment 6: Very simple switching -- Experiment 7: Investigating a relay -- Experiment 8: Relay oscillator -- Experiment 9: Time and capacitors -- Experiment 10: Transistor switching -- Experiment 11: Light and sound -- Getting Somewhat More Serious: -- Necessary Items For Chapter Three: -- Experiment 12: Joining two wires together -- Experiment 13: Roasting an LED -- Experiment 14: Wearable pulsing glow -- Experiment 15: Intrusion alarm, part one -- Chips, Ahoy!: -- Necessary Items For Chapter Four: -- Experiment 16: Emitting a pulse -- Experiment 17: Set your tone -- Experiment 18: Intrusion alarm (almost) completed -- Experiment 19: Reflex tester -- Experiment 20: Learning logic -- Experiment 21: Powerful combination -- Experiment 22: Race to place -- Experiment 23: Flipping and bouncing -- Experiment 24: Nice dice -- What Next?: -- Tools, equipment, components, and supplies -- Customizing your work area -- Labeling -- On the bench -- Reference sources online -- Books -- Experiment 25: Magnetism -- Experiment 26: Tabletop power generation -- Experiment 27: Loudspeaker destruction -- Experiment 28: Making a coil react -- Experiment 29: Filtering frequencies -- Experiment 30: Make it fuzzy -- Experiment 31: One radio, no solder, no power -- Experiment 32: Hardware meets software -- Experiment 33: Checking the real world -- Experiment 34: Nicer dice -- Tools, Equipment, Components, And Supplies: -- Kits -- Searching and shopping online -- Checklists of supplies and components -- Buying tools and equipment -- Suppliers -- Index