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What’s New in the Second Edition Preface: How to Have Fun with This Book

Learning by Discovery Will It Be Difficult? How This Book Is Organized If Something Doesn’t Work Writer–Reader Communication Me Informing You You Informing Me You Asking Me Going Public Going Further Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us

1. The Basics

Necessary Items for Chapter One

The Multimeter Ranging Values Safety Glasses Batteries and Connectors Test Leads Potentiometer Fuse Light-Emitting Diodes Resistors

Experiment 1: Taste the Power!

What You Will Need Caution: No More than Nine Volts Procedure Setting Up Your Meter Fundamentals: Ohms Measuring Your Tongue Fundamentals: Inside a Battery Further Investigation Background: The Man Who Discovered Resistance Cleanup and Recycling

Experiment 2: Let’s Abuse a Battery!

Caution: Use a Small Battery What You Will Need Generating Heat with Current Background: Why Didn’t Your Tongue Get Hot? Fundamentals: Volt Basics Fundamentals: Ampere Basics How to Blow a Fuse Fundamentals: Direct and Alternating Current Background: Inventor of the Battery Background: Father of Electromagnetism Cleanup and Recycling

Experiment 3: Your First Circuit

What You Will Need Setup Fundamentals: Decoding Resistors Lighting an LED Checking a Resistor Background: Puzzling Numbers Cleanup and Recycling

Experiment 4: Variable Resistance

What You Will Need Look Inside Your Potentiometer Testing the Potentiometer Caution: Don’t Add Power Caution: Destructive Experiment Ahead Dimming Your LED Measuring Potential Difference Checking the Flow Caution: Meter Overload Checking the Current Making Measurements Fundamentals: Ohm’s Law Fundamentals: Series and Parallel Using Ohm’s Law How Big a Resistor? Background: Hot Wires Fundamentals: Decimals Theory: The Math on Your Tongue Background: The Watt Background: The Origins of Wattage Cleanup and Recycling

Experiment 5: Let’s Make a Battery

What You Will Need Setup Lemon Test: Part One Theory: The Nature of Electricity Background: Positive and Negative Theory: Basic Measurements Practically Speaking Cleanup and Recycling

2. Switching

Necessary Items for Chapter Two

Essential: Small Screwdrivers Essential: Small Long-Nosed Pliers Optional: Sharp-Nosed Pliers Essential: Wire Cutters Optional: Flush Cutters Essential: Wire Strippers Essential: Breadboards Supplies Essential: Hookup Wire Jumpers Optional: Stranded Wire Components Essential: Toggle Switch Essential: Tactile Switch Essential: Relay Essential: Trimmer Potentiometer Essential: Transistors Essential: Capacitors Essential: Resistors Essential: Loudspeaker And More?

Experiment 6: Very Simple Switching

What You Will Need Fundamentals: All About Switches Sparking Checking Continuity Background: Early Switching Systems Introducing Schematics Fundamentals: Basic Schematic Symbols Schematic Layout Crossovers Colored Conductors

Experiment 7: Investigating a Relay

What You Will Need: The Relay Caution: Polarity Problems Procedure What’s Going On Inside Other Relays Opening It Up What’s Inside? Fundamentals: Relay Terminology

Experiment 8: A Relay Oscillator

What You Will Need A Beginner’s Board Making Jumpers Power Up Inside the Board Relay Circuit, Revealed Making It Buzz Adding Capacitance Fundamentals: Farad Basics Caution: Getting Zapped by Capacitors Fundamentals: Capacitor Basics Caution: Observe Capacitor Polarity! Fundamentals: Fault Tracing Background: Michael Faraday and Capacitors

Experiment 9: Time and Capacitors

What You Will Need Charging a Capacitor An RC Network Voltage, Resistance, and Capacitance Background: The Time Constant Background: Graphing It Experimental Verification Capacitive Coupling Displacement Current Alternating Current

Experiment 10: Transistor Switching

What You Will Need The Finger Test Caution: Never Use Two Hands Inside the Finger Test Fundamentals: Transistor Variants Adding a Potentiometer Voltage and Current Fundamentals: All About NPN and PNP Transistors Caution: Fragile Component! Background: Transistor Origins Fundamentals: Transistors and Relays

Experiment 11: Light and Sound

What You Will Need Fluctuations Step by Step Coupling Capacitor But How Does It Start? Why So Complicated? A Processed Pulse Upping the Speed Still More Mods Background: Mounting a Loudspeaker

3. Getting Somewhat More Serious

Necessary Items for Chapter Three

Essential: Power Supply Essential: Low-Power Soldering Iron Essential: General Duty Soldering Iron Soldering Iron Terminology Essential: Helping Hand Essential: Magnifying Lens Optional: Clip-on Meter Test Leads Optional: Heat Gun Optional: Desoldering Equipment Optional: Soldering Stand Optional: Miniature Hand Saw Optional: Deburring Tool Optional: Calipers Supplies Essential: Solder Optional: Heat-Shrink Tubing Essential: Copper Alligator Clips Optional: Perforated Board Optional: Plywood Optional: Machine Screws Essential: Project Boxes Essential: Power Connectors Optional: Headers Components Diodes

Experiment 12: Joining Two Wires Together

What You Will Need Caution: Soldering Irons Do Get Hot! Your First Solder Joint Background: Soldering Myths Fundamentals: Eight Soldering Errors Background: Soldering Alternatives Your Second Solder Joint Theory: Heat Transfer Insulating the Solder Joint Caution: Heat Guns Do Get Hot! Wiring Your Power Source Step One: Cut and Measure Step Two: Soldering Pruning a Power Cord Twelve Steps to a Shorter Cord What’s Next?

Experiment 13: Roasting an LED

What You Will Need Where the Heat Goes Rules for Heat Sinking

Experiment 14: A Wearable Pulsing Glow

What You Will Need Fluctuations Revisited Bend Wires, Add Solder Step by Step Caution: Flying Wire Segments Finishing the Job Background: Maddened by Measurement

Experiment 15: Intrusion Alarm, Part One

What You Will Need Wish List Implementing the Wish List Magnetic Sensor Switches A Break-to-Make Transistor Circuit Self-Locking Relay Blocking Bad Voltage Fundamentals: All About Diodes One Problem Creates Another Solving the Problem Protection Diode Time to Breadboard Adding the Sound Reference: Take-Home Messages

4. Chips, Ahoy!

Necessary Items for Chapter Four

Components Fundamentals: Choosing Chips Optional: IC Sockets Essential: Subminiature Slide Switch Caution: Switching Overload Essential: Low-Current LEDs Essential: Numeric Displays Essential: Voltage Regulator Optional Extras Background: How Chips Came to Be

Experiment 16: Emitting a Pulse

What You Will Need Know Your Chips Monostable Test Timing the Pulse Caution: Beware of Pin-Shuffling! Fundamentals: Timer Duration Theory: Inside the 555 in Monostable Mode Fundamentals: Pulse Suppression Fundamentals: Why the 555 Is Useful Fundamentals: Bistable Mode Background: How the Timer Was Born Fundamentals: 555 Timer Specifications Caution: Not All Timers Are Equal

Experiment 17: Set Your Tone

What You Will Need Astable Test Theory: Output Frequency Theory: Inside the 555 in Astable Mode Fundamentals: Unequal On-Off Cycles Astable Modifications Chaining Chips Sounding Like a Siren

Experiment 18: Intrusion Alarm (Almost) Completed

What You Will Need Three Steps to a Functional Device Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 What About the Noise? What About On and Off? Finalizing Most Common Perfboarding Errors Fundamentals: Perforated Board Fault Tracing The Project Box Soldering the Switches Fixing the Board Caution: Avoid Board Stress Final Test Alarm Installation Conclusion

Experiment 19: Reflex Tester

What You Will Need Caution: Protecting Chips from Static Caution: Be Careful When Grounded A Quick Demo Fundamentals: LED Displays Fundamentals: The Counter Pulse Generation Time for a Plan A Control System Progress Report The Delay Testing How Does It Work? Background: Development Issues Extra Digits Calibration Enhancements Next?

Experiment 20: Learning Logic

What You Will Need The Regulator Caution: Inappropriate Inputs Usage Your First Logic Gate Background: Logical Origins Fundamentals: Logic Gate Basics Background: The Confusing World of TTL and CMOS What You Don’t Need Fundamentals: Part Numbers and Functions Fundamentals: Rules for Connecting Logic Gates

Experiment 21: A Powerful Combination

Caution: The Warranty Issue What You Will Need A Three-Part Circuit How It Works More than One Button? Triggering the Relay The Logic Chip Time to Build! Setup Testing Dealing with Diodes Questions The Computer Interface Enhancements

Experiment 22: Race to Place

What You Will Need The Goal A Conceptual Experiment Breadboarding It Enhancements

Experiment 23: Flipping and Bouncing

What You Will Need How It Works Debouncing with NORs Debouncing with NANDs Jamming Versus Clocking

Experiment 24: Nice Dice

What You Will Need A Binary Counter Counter Testing Fundamentals: Binary Code Rising Edge, Falling Edge The Modulus Converting to Modulus 6 Not Using a Seven-Segment Display Choosing the Gates The Finished Circuit Good News Chained Counters Going Further The Slowdown Problem Slowdown Alternatives

5. What Next?

Tools, Equipment, Components, and Supplies Customizing Your Work Area Labeling On the Bench Reference Sources Online Books Experiment 25: Magnetism

Fundamentals: A Two-Way Relationship What You Will Need Procedure Theory: Inductance Fundamentals: Coil Schematics and Basics Background: Joseph Henry

Experiment 26: Tabletop Power Generation

What You Will Need Procedure Lighting an LED Optional Extensions Caution: Blood Blisters and Dead Media Charging a Capacitor Next: Audio

Experiment 27: Loudspeaker Destruction

What You Will Need Procedure Background: Origins of Loudspeakers Theory: Sound, Slectricity, and Sound

Experiment 28: Making a Coil React

What You Will Need Procedure A Collapsing Field Resistors, Capacitors, and Coils Theory: Alternating Current Concepts

Experiment 29: Filtering Frequencies

What You Will Need A Home for Your Speaker A Single Chip Test, 1-2-3 Adventures in Audio Theory: Waveforms Mangling Some Music Background: Crossover Networks

Experiment 30: Make It Fuzzy

What You Will Need Making the Mods Background: Clipping Background: Stomp-Box Origins

Experiment 31: One Radio, No Solder, No Power

What You Will Need Step 1: The Coil Caution: High Voltage! Antenna and Ground Enhancements Theory: How Radio Works

Experiment 32: Hardware Meets Software

What You Will Need Definitions Real-World Applications The Right Tool for the Job? One Board, Many Chips Beware of Imitations? Setup Linux Installation Windows Installation Windows Troubleshooting Mac Installation If All Else Fails The Old Arduino Blink Test Verify and Compile Upload and Run Caution: Lost Code Programming Entails Detail Background: Origins and Options Among Programmable Chips Fundamentals: Advantages and Disadvantages Longevity Obsolescence Hybrid Circuits Individual Components: Advantages Individual Components: Disadvantages Microcontrollers: Advantages Microcontrollers: Disadvantages Summing Up

Experiment 33: Checking the Real World

What You Will Need Using a Thermistor Range Conversion Connections What, No Output? Hysteresis Line by Line Additional Details Enhancements

Experiment 34: Nicer Dice

What You Will Need: The Limits to Learning by Discovery Randomicity Pseudocode Button Inputs The System Clock Final Draft of Pseudocode Hardware Setup Now, the Program Short and Long Integers Setup The “for” Loop The Random Function The “if” Statement Flash Speed Creating a New Function Structure But Is It Too Difficult? Upgrading the Nicer Dice Program Other Microcontrollers Unexplored Territory In Closing

6. Tools, Equipment, Components, and Supplies

Kits Searching and Shopping Online

The Art of Searching Try the Chat Option Parts on Google Datasheets General Search Techniques Exclusions Alternatives Too Much Typing? Vendor Categories Which to Click First? A Real-Life Search eBay Options Amazon Killing Autocomplete Is Searching Worth the Trouble?

Checklists of Supplies and Components

Supplies Components Other Components Components for Chapter One Components for Chapter Two Components for Chapter Three Components for Chapter Four Components for Chapter Five

Buying Tools and Equipment

Tools and Equipment for Chapter One Tools and Equipment for Chapter Two Tools and Equipment for Chapter Three

Suppliers

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