Electronics from the Ground Up: Learn by Hacking, Designing, and Inventing

Discover the inner-workings of electronics through innovative hands-on experiments

Are you fascinated by the power of even the smallest electronic device? Electronics from the Ground Up guides you through step-by-step experiments that reveal how electronic circuits function so you can advance your skills and design custom circuits. You’ll work with a range of circuits and signals related to optical emitters and receivers, audio, oscillators, and video.

This practical resource explains components, construction techniques, basic test equipment, circuit analysis, and troubleshooting. Photographs, schematics, equations, and graphs are included throughout. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to hack and modify existing circuits to create your own unique designs.

Do-it-yourself experiments cover:
Batteries, lamps, and flashlights

Light emitters and receivers

Diodes, rectifiers, and associated circuits

Transistors, FETs, and vacuum tubes

Amplifiers and feedback

Audio signals and circuits

Oscillators

AM and FM signals and circuits

Video basics, including video signals

Video circuits and systems




“Excellent… Nothing can replace hands-on experience and Quan immerses the hobbyist/designer right into the fray up to their elbows.”—EDN Magazine