Description
This wonderful teaching resource has the reader build nine graded projects, including a cookie jar alarm, a night light, disco party lights, a digital piano, and more. All of the projects use cheap and readily-available components, with no soldering required. By the end of the book, the reader will understand core circuit concepts, and can use that knowledge to build their own electronic creations. With easy-to-follow directions and photo references, almost anyone can become an electronics enthusiast with the help of A Beginner s Guide to Circuits!
A Beginner's Guide to Circuits is the perfect first book for anyone interested in learning about electronics. After finishing the book's nine graded projects, readers will understand core electronics concepts which they can use to make their own electrifying creations!
About the Author
Oyvind Nydal Dahl built his first circuit at age 14, and has kept building ever since then. Oyvind has a master's degree in Electronics from the University of Oslo, helps companies develop new products, and travels the world while teaching electronics workshops. He is also the author of Electronics for Kids (No Starch Press, 2016). Read more about Oyvind at http://www.build-electronic-circuits.com/.
Reviews
"An excellent starter book for young people interested in electronics."
-Tim Cox, founder of MagPi Magazine
"A much better way to learn the way circuits work than many other guides or books, which hold your hand through assembly at the cost of holding your hands through understanding."
-Greg Laden, ScienceBlogs
"By the end of [A Beginner's Guide to Circuits], kids will be able to invent and build their own electronic creations. . . . Highly recommended for school and community library collections for young readers . . ."
-Midwest Book Reviews
"Fantastic example circuits, easy enough to build but great as learning tools . . . a great introductory text to the world of electronics."
-Daylight Reviews, Amazon reviewer
Book Information
ISBN 9781593279042
Author Oyvind Nydal Dahl
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint No Starch Press,US
Publisher No Starch Press,US
A Beginner's Guide to Circuits is the perfect first book for anyone interested in learning about electronics. After finishing the book's nine graded projects, readers will understand core electronics concepts which they can use to make their own electrifying creations!
About the Author
Oyvind Nydal Dahl built his first circuit at age 14, and has kept building ever since then. Oyvind has a master's degree in Electronics from the University of Oslo, helps companies develop new products, and travels the world while teaching electronics workshops. He is also the author of Electronics for Kids (No Starch Press, 2016). Read more about Oyvind at http://www.build-electronic-circuits.com/.
Reviews
"An excellent starter book for young people interested in electronics."
-Tim Cox, founder of MagPi Magazine
"A much better way to learn the way circuits work than many other guides or books, which hold your hand through assembly at the cost of holding your hands through understanding."
-Greg Laden, ScienceBlogs
"By the end of [A Beginner's Guide to Circuits], kids will be able to invent and build their own electronic creations. . . . Highly recommended for school and community library collections for young readers . . ."
-Midwest Book Reviews
"Fantastic example circuits, easy enough to build but great as learning tools . . . a great introductory text to the world of electronics."
-Daylight Reviews, Amazon reviewer
Book Information
ISBN 9781593279042
Author Oyvind Nydal Dahl
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint No Starch Press,US
Publisher No Starch Press,US
