Good video! However, if you don't have $45 for this book, don't feel left out. I can help! I was born just after the dinosaurs disappeared so I came up when, yes, state of the art was - you guessed it, tubes lol! My first reading about electronics was from an old manual my uncle got when studying electronics in the air force and was centered around tube tech. I was about 9 or 10 at the time. But I loved music and knew that electronics was beginning to play a big part in the reproduction of said love. So I started reading all I could get my hands on. Radio Shack was a mail order house back then, but soon and by the 60's they begin to put stores in a lot ot towns. I bought a couple of books by Forrest Mims and that's when I really started to learn some practical stuff and by the 70's we were starting to see solid state devices become more and more affordable. Keep in mind just ONE transistor in the early 1950 was in the $150 dollar range. And around $50 in 1955. Yep. Just one. A new Chevy was about $2,000 then. That's why we were still mostly using tubes back then lol! But then the moon race caused them to put more than one on a substrate and then - IC's! Prices had dropped radically by the 60's. The rest as they say is history. A 10 dollar arduino has thousands of transistors and some chips have millions these days. OK. Long winded but here's my point. The laws of electronics physics don't change. The same Ohm's law that we learned back in the tube era still works today. So if you don't have $45 for a book, you can now get the Forrest Mims "Bible", the Engineers Notebook, as a free pdf download. It's called the engineers handbook and was published in the 90's. It's not in color and doesn't show you how to breadboard the circuits. But it covers many of the same chips in todays books, especially the 555 and 4017, two very useful chips. He teaches you basic electronics and how to read a schematic. Then he takes you thru dozens and dozens of schematic diagrams which are quite easy to follow and it isn't hard at all to figure out how to bread board them because he is so good at explaining things. And did I mention it is free? Most of the chips he uses are still available on the internet. Here's a link for the PDF if you wish to take a look. www.zpag.net/Electroniques/Kit/The%20Forrest%20Mims%20Engineers%20Notebook.pdf
looks like a great book. looks like most projects are made with breadboards. That's fine but where does one get the wires, resistors, capacitors, potentiometers, etc... I would assume there is a kit that has a mix of the most commonly used parts. I see there are some kits for arduino or rasberry Pi but I am looking at electronics that doesn't involve coding. I am looking at working on vintage stereos, making amps, guitar pedals, etc. Any ideas? Thanks.
I haven't seen many kits that are just a selection of components. As you say, they usually target the microcontroller boards (Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP, etc.). A couple places worth looking at would be BangGood.com, AliExpress, or even EBay and Amazon. I know Elegoo had a few good getting started kits. At worst, it might just mean having to pick up an Arduino Uno in a kit. I hear you can do some interesting stuff with Midi using an Arduino.
Thanks for the review, I was wondering if this book was good (nobody talk about the layout and how the information are delivered in their review).. Exlent Video and thank you because now I want to buy it. (sorry for my English)
im so put off by the cost of getting all the stuff on the shopping list :( i wish i could just buy the elegoo starter kit and be done with it, kinda getting demotivated at the fact that my dream hobby has a high entry barrier in terms of cost
It does. The examples are very straight forward and easy to follow. There is even a section about making mistakes and how to learn from them. It's very beginner friendly.
Looks like there is a Portuguese edition available. Try searching for "Eletrônica para Makers: Um manual prático para o novo entusiasta de eletrônica (Portuguese Edition)"
I dont have recollection on how the second edition is pretty closer to the first one. I owned the first edition one bought for only 369php or like 7.3USD which is pretty far from the original price of 34.99$ I am watching more about electronics and get off with this laziness and read the damn book
Good video! However, if you don't have $45 for this book, don't feel left out. I can help! I was born just after the dinosaurs disappeared so I came up when, yes, state of the art was - you guessed it, tubes lol! My first reading about electronics was from an old manual my uncle got when studying electronics in the air force and was centered around tube tech. I was about 9 or 10 at the time. But I loved music and knew that electronics was beginning to play a big part in the reproduction of said love. So I started reading all I could get my hands on. Radio Shack was a mail order house back then, but soon and by the 60's they begin to put stores in a lot ot towns. I bought a couple of books by Forrest Mims and that's when I really started to learn some practical stuff and by the 70's we were starting to see solid state devices become more and more affordable. Keep in mind just ONE transistor in the early 1950 was in the $150 dollar range. And around $50 in 1955. Yep. Just one. A new Chevy was about $2,000 then. That's why we were still mostly using tubes back then lol! But then the moon race caused them to put more than one on a substrate and then - IC's! Prices had dropped radically by the 60's. The rest as they say is history. A 10 dollar arduino has thousands of transistors and some chips have millions these days. OK. Long winded but here's my point. The laws of electronics physics don't change. The same Ohm's law that we learned back in the tube era still works today. So if you don't have $45 for a book, you can now get the Forrest Mims "Bible", the Engineers Notebook, as a free pdf download. It's called the engineers handbook and was published in the 90's. It's not in color and doesn't show you how to breadboard the circuits. But it covers many of the same chips in todays books, especially the 555 and 4017, two very useful chips. He teaches you basic electronics and how to read a schematic. Then he takes you thru dozens and dozens of schematic diagrams which are quite easy to follow and it isn't hard at all to figure out how to bread board them because he is so good at explaining things. And did I mention it is free? Most of the chips he uses are still available on the internet. Here's a link for the PDF if you wish to take a look.
www.zpag.net/Electroniques/Kit/The%20Forrest%20Mims%20Engineers%20Notebook.pdf
Thank you kind person!
Thanks man!
I'm finishing this book. It is excellent. Great for fundamentals. Well written and interesting.
Great video, was looking for an honest review of this book from someone.
This looks like the type of book I have been looking for. Thanks
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Thank you for watching
This is the exact video I was looking for, nice job c:
Thanks alot for the review! This book should arrive soon for me and would serve as my first entry to electronics! Fairly excited :)
looks like a great book. looks like most projects are made with breadboards. That's fine but where does one get the wires, resistors, capacitors, potentiometers, etc... I would assume there is a kit that has a mix of the most commonly used parts. I see there are some kits for arduino or rasberry Pi but I am looking at electronics that doesn't involve coding. I am looking at working on vintage stereos, making amps, guitar pedals, etc. Any ideas? Thanks.
I haven't seen many kits that are just a selection of components. As you say, they usually target the microcontroller boards (Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP, etc.). A couple places worth looking at would be BangGood.com, AliExpress, or even EBay and Amazon. I know Elegoo had a few good getting started kits.
At worst, it might just mean having to pick up an Arduino Uno in a kit. I hear you can do some interesting stuff with Midi using an Arduino.
Thanks for the review, I was wondering if this book was good (nobody talk about the layout and how the information are delivered in their review).. Exlent Video and thank you because now I want to buy it. (sorry for my English)
Thanks Curtis. I was also looking for the same book.
im so put off by the cost of getting all the stuff on the shopping list :( i wish i could just buy the elegoo starter kit and be done with it, kinda getting demotivated at the fact that my dream hobby has a high entry barrier in terms of cost
Nice book ...thank you for your review
Have you also read "Make More Electronics" by the same author?
Very well made video, cheers bud
Does either one of the two books include practice examples to get hands into electronics
I'm a beginner
It does. The examples are very straight forward and easy to follow.
There is even a section about making mistakes and how to learn from them. It's very beginner friendly.
That's what this book is. Your get your own equipment/materials and do all the experiments in the book.
Good morning, do you have it in Portuguese?
Looks like there is a Portuguese edition available. Try searching for "Eletrônica para Makers: Um manual prático para o novo entusiasta de eletrônica (Portuguese Edition)"
@@BasementElectronics thanks 🤝
lots of tedious & knowledgeable work involved in producing an accurate text book
Greetings from Northern Ireland!
RUclips is expensive.
This costed my 36.50 dollar for the third edition.
I dont have recollection on how the second edition is pretty closer to the first one. I owned the first edition one bought for only 369php or like 7.3USD which is pretty far from the original price of 34.99$
I am watching more about electronics and get off with this laziness and read the damn book
How to make an order make: electronics..
I got mine through Amazon.
Do you get money from this y chnnel
Hush now