Electronics for Beginners
Welcome to the world of electronics! In the modern world, electronic devices are everywhere, but fewer and fewer people seem to understand
nothing.
projects of their own. There is plenty of information on the physics of
One exception to this is Horowitz and Hill’s The Art of Electronics. This
knowing nothing about electronics to being able to build real circuits
wanting to know how electronic circuits work to actually understanding how they work or how to put them together. At the same time, it has never been easy to do as an individual. The availability of training, tools,
parts, instructions, videos, and tutorials for the home experimenter has
grown enormously, and the costs for equipment have dropped to almost
nothing.
However, what has been lacking is a good guide to bring students from wanting to know how electronic circuits work to actually understanding them and being able to develop their own. For the hobbyist, there are many guides that show you how to do individual projects, but they often
fail to provide enough information for their readers to be able to build projects of their own. There is plenty of information on the physics of electricity in physics books, but they fail to make the information practical.
One exception to this is Horowitz and Hill’s The Art of Electronics. This book is a wonderful reference guide for practical circuit design. However, its target audience is largely electrical engineers or other very advanced circuit designers. Not only that, the book itself is prohibitively expensive. What has been needed for a long time is a book that takes you from knowing nothing about electronics to being able to build real circuits that you design yourself. This book combines theory, practice, projects,
and design patterns in order to enable you to build your own circuits from scratch. Additionally, this book is designed entirely around safe.
