Make: Electronics
by Charles Platt · Charles Platt
Hands-on primer built around a sequence of experiments with real components: batteries, resistors, capacitors, transistors, relays and logic chips. Readers learn electronics by building and deliberately breaking circuits, ending able to read schematics and design simple digital projects.
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