Make: More Electronics: Journey Deep into the World of Logic Chips, Amplifiers, Sensors, and Randomicity

This book is a fantastic follow up to the original and more beginner friendly "Make: Electronics". This new book is more complicated and challenging in JUST the right ways. You are led to think on your own and make mistakes and discover things, without the "figuring out" ever becoming tedious. The book is no longer spoon feeding you like the original, it's a beast. The new experiments are fun and I've built long term versions of several of them and I feel like I'm learning more with every new chapter. But it's fun learning, I look forward to it. If you finished the first book and are looking for your next challenge, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG here. The Caveat: Unlike for the first book, there are no pre-made kits for this book, so you are on your own in stocking up with parts and materials. The materials list leaves something to be desired. My pet peeve is the "4pdt switch". There are half a dozen formats of this thing, and if you buy the first one you find (like I did), its money down the drain. I would suggest to the author to add pictures of the parts to an appendix, or a link to a section of his website which keeps the parts current. Even if this can not be added to the book right now, any reader writing in about parts could be directed to an online site of current parts. Other than that caveat, I will buy any book Mr. Platt writes (I actually have them all so far) and I wish he would come up with a third installment of this series. I've learned a lot and its all kinds of fun and just the right amount of challenging. GET THE BOOK!

Un livre d'une très grande clarté qui revient au début sur "La pratique de l'électronique", mais en allant plus loin. A partir du chapitre 3 on apprend à utiliser de nouveaux composants (37 chapitres au total) et à réaliser des montages dont certains trouveront l'utilité dans leur vie de tous les jours. On appréciera les suggestions données au début de l'ouvrage pour le rangement des composants, le câblage, les vérifications à opérer dans un montage de circuit... Pour moi qui n'y connaissait rien en électronique au premier juin de cette année, ce livre et le précédent ("L'électronique par la pratique") ont été à la fois une source précieuse d'enseignement et d'amusement. Encore un mot pour signaler les annexes importantes concernant les achats à réaliser. Je conseillerai néanmoins de lire d'abord les expériences proposées avant d'acheter. Peut-être le lecteur n'est-il pas intéressé par toutes les expériences et les achats qui en découlent.

The book is fully coloured with glossed paper. The language is easy to read. A must for electronics enthusiasts

* Physical This book is printed on high-quality paper and improved with colour pics and diagrams. The text is of good size for those who require specs to read. * Target audience In my humble opinion, the quality of the work within this book by this author is broadly around H.N.C level and later then strays into initial degree level later on. This is a largely practical pitch, and still with its signature of reduced mathematical content, apart from BODMAS rules. * What are the best bits? The best bits are carried from what's in the previous volume, 'Make Electronics'. And this clarity continues and explains what you may be too shy to admit you may not already grasp? This book describes individual components in enlightening ways, such as differing comparators and op-amps configurations - the LM741 and quad op-amp LM339 -, the simple transistors- the 2n2222, 555 timers, phototransistors, decoders and encoders and multiplexers, logic gates AND OR NOT NAND NOR XOR. And a major section of differing sensors is again very clearly explained. The great thing it promotes good comprehension skills with very tidy prototyping on boards that's is always a very handy skill and is a major help in debugging when faults occur. The reason why i estimate this book to be 'H.N.C' level plus is the problem of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'. This i experienced this type of problem in my H.N.D, and this book goes into great lengths showing the principles of this multi logic setup, even going into multiple boards carrying discrete components and not always with logic gates. The lack of logical mapping is an unusual oversight considering its pitch. A nice thing is that it applied a system approach, advising blocks in order to avoid 'reinventing the wheel' and then working down into the component level. * Summary I enjoyed this largely practical book very much and devoured it over a week. Its refreshed lots of my half-forgotten studies and gave me pleasure to read. The author explains on page 323 his background and this may surprise?

Me gusta todo, desde los consejos, aunque no soy inexperto los consejos y técnica que usa el autor son excelentes, recuerdas y aprendes conceptos muy prácticos