Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius by Dave Cutcher

Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius

Features

Cover Type: Paperback with 225 pages

Published by: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics

Edition: 1st Edition November 24, 2004

Written in: English

ISBN 10 Number: 0071448810

ISBN 13 Number: 978-0071448819

Book Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches

Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Description
There is truly a lack of good, basic hardwire electronic "how-to" books. The market seems interested in this type of fun project compilation. This is another book in our extremely successful "Evil Genius" series. So far, each of the books has sold about $50,000 in less than 3 months.

The perfect addition to our "Evil Genius" series, this book details everything an electronics hobbyist would want to know about circuits and circuit design through 57 Lessons. Readers work through 5 distinct, useful projects to reinforce their learning.

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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 extreme proficiency, 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!

Reader Reviews
I have read most of the books in this series and they all suffer from the same problems. They are full of errors that could have been corrected before release if the publisher hired a proofreader. This book is especially frustrating with poor graphics, charts, and tables. You can find some corrections to the text if you search the web. Do not purchase components from the source listed in the book (they are extremely overpriced). Comment | | (Report this)

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