57 lessons and five complete projects teach everything a hobbyist needs to know about circuits and circuit design. Inexpensive hardware components for each project can be purchased from an online vendor. Project include: An automatic night light A professional quality burglar alarm Building a digital toy using logic gates Designing and building an application using digital counting circuits Applying translators and op amps to build an intercom system
Table of contents:
FOREWORD PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Part I: Components Section One: Components Section Two: Resist If You Must Section Three: More Components and Semiconductors Part II: Introducing Digital Electronics Section Four: Digital Logic Section Five: The First NAND Gate Circuit Section Six: Analog Switches for Digital Circuits Section Seven: The NAND Gate Oscillator Section Eight: Digital Logic Design Section Nine: Digital Logic Application Part III: Counting Systems in Electronics Section Ten: Introducing an Analog-to-Digital Converter Section Eleven: The 4017 Walking Ring Counter Section Twelve: Running a Seven-Segment Display Section Thirteen: Define, Design, and Make Your Own Project Part IV: Amplifier Introduced and Applied Section Fourteen: What Is an Amplifier? Section Fifteen: Exploring the Op Amp Section Sixteen: Applying the Op Amp; Building the Intercom Section Seventeen: Putting It All Together INDEX
FROM CIRCUIT FAINT HEART TO CIRCUIT LION HEART IN 57 EASY AND FUN LESSONS Featuring everything an electronics hobbyist could want to learn about circuits and circuit design, Dave Cutcher's Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius makes it fun to achieve genuine mastery, one simple lesson at a time. What's more, when you're done, you'll have 5 complete projects to show for your efforts! 5 FUN AND INSTRUCTIVE PROJECTS Cutcher's 57 lessons build on each other and add up to projects you'll be proud to display, play with, and put to practical use. You don't need to know anything about electronics to begin building: A night light that turns itself on as darkness falls, and off at dawn's first light A professional-quality burglar alarm A toy that thinks for itself with logic gates An application that counts -- built on your own design A two-way intercom using transistors and op amps BUILD HANDS-ON EXPERTISE Designed to teach through doing, Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius provides hours of rewarding fun. That's not all. This book gives you valuable experience in circuit construction and design. You learn to test, modify, and observe results -- skills you can put to work in all the exciting circuit-building projects in your future. Dave Cutcher makes it easy for you to master electronic circuits. Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius gives you: Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing pretested projects advanced enough for sophisticated electronics enthusiasts but described in sufficient detail to be built easily by newcomers Frustration-free plans -- needed parts are listed, along with sources Full instructions on using a digital multimeter and turning your computer into an oscilloscope Templates for CAD work and a link to a great public domain CAD program Online access to an inexpensive kit (around $50) containing all the materials you need to build these projects (you can, of course, buy parts individually, wherever you choose) GO TO: www.books.mcgraw-hill.com/authors/cutcher for: Animations Answers to worksheet problems Links to other resources .WAV files to be used as frequency generators Freeware so you can apply your PC as an oscilloscope Complete kit (including a printed circuit board), tailored to the book and its projects, is available from ABRA Electronics, Inc. for $55. See coupon inside for details. DEVELOP POWERFUL CIRCUIT SKILLS THE FUN WAY!
Table of contents:
FOREWORD PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Part I: Components Section One: Components Section Two: Resist If You Must Section Three: More Components and Semiconductors Part II: Introducing Digital Electronics Section Four: Digital Logic Section Five: The First NAND Gate Circuit Section Six: Analog Switches for Digital Circuits Section Seven: The NAND Gate Oscillator Section Eight: Digital Logic Design Section Nine: Digital Logic Application Part III: Counting Systems in Electronics Section Ten: Introducing an Analog-to-Digital Converter Section Eleven: The 4017 Walking Ring Counter Section Twelve: Running a Seven-Segment Display Section Thirteen: Define, Design, and Make Your Own Project Part IV: Amplifier Introduced and Applied Section Fourteen: What Is an Amplifier? Section Fifteen: Exploring the Op Amp Section Sixteen: Applying the Op Amp; Building the Intercom Section Seventeen: Putting It All Together INDEX
FROM CIRCUIT FAINT HEART TO CIRCUIT LION HEART IN 57 EASY AND FUN LESSONS Featuring everything an electronics hobbyist could want to learn about circuits and circuit design, Dave Cutcher's Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius makes it fun to achieve genuine mastery, one simple lesson at a time. What's more, when you're done, you'll have 5 complete projects to show for your efforts! 5 FUN AND INSTRUCTIVE PROJECTS Cutcher's 57 lessons build on each other and add up to projects you'll be proud to display, play with, and put to practical use. You don't need to know anything about electronics to begin building: A night light that turns itself on as darkness falls, and off at dawn's first light A professional-quality burglar alarm A toy that thinks for itself with logic gates An application that counts -- built on your own design A two-way intercom using transistors and op amps BUILD HANDS-ON EXPERTISE Designed to teach through doing, Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius provides hours of rewarding fun. That's not all. This book gives you valuable experience in circuit construction and design. You learn to test, modify, and observe results -- skills you can put to work in all the exciting circuit-building projects in your future. Dave Cutcher makes it easy for you to master electronic circuits. Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius gives you: Illustrated instructions and plans for amazing pretested projects advanced enough for sophisticated electronics enthusiasts but described in sufficient detail to be built easily by newcomers Frustration-free plans -- needed parts are listed, along with sources Full instructions on using a digital multimeter and turning your computer into an oscilloscope Templates for CAD work and a link to a great public domain CAD program Online access to an inexpensive kit (around $50) containing all the materials you need to build these projects (you can, of course, buy parts individually, wherever you choose) GO TO: www.books.mcgraw-hill.com/authors/cutcher for: Animations Answers to worksheet problems Links to other resources .WAV files to be used as frequency generators Freeware so you can apply your PC as an oscilloscope Complete kit (including a printed circuit board), tailored to the book and its projects, is available from ABRA Electronics, Inc. for $55. See coupon inside for details. DEVELOP POWERFUL CIRCUIT SKILLS THE FUN WAY!