Make : more electronics / Charles Platt ; editor Brian Jepson ; cover designer Juliann Brown ; interior designer David Futato ; illustrator Charles Platt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platt, Charles, author.

Contributor:

Jepson, Brian, editor.

Brown, Juliann, cover designer.

Futato, David, designer.

Platt, Charles, illustrator.

Maker Media, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic apparatus and appliances--Design and construction--Amateurs' manuals.

Electronic apparatus and appliances.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 359 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Enhance your electronics skills with hands-on experience

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, California : Maker Media, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Want to learn even more about electronics in a fun, hands-on way? If you finished the projects in Make: Electronics, or if you're already familiar with the material in that book, you're ready for Make: More Electronics. Right away, you'll start working on real projects, and you'll explore all the key components and essential principles through the book's collection of experiments. You'll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them! This book picks up where Make: Electronics left off: you'll work with components like comparators, light sensors, higher-level logic chips, multiplexers, shift registers, encoders, decoders, and magnetic sensors. You'll also learn about topics like audio amplification, randomicity, as well as positive and negative feedback. With step-by-step instructions, and hundreds of color photographs and illustrations, this book will help you use -- and understand -- intermediate to advanced electronics concepts and techniques." -- Provided by publishers.

Contents:

Experiment 1 : Sticky resistance

A glue-based amplifier : What's happening ; Symbology

Warning : nonstandard leads

Background : conductors and insulators

Make even more

Experiment 2 : Getting some numbers

Requirements

Transistor behavior : Warning : meter at risk! ; Abbreviations and datasheets ; What about the voltage? ; Quick facts about voltage

Make even more : old-school metering

Quick facts about transistors

Answers to voltage divider examples

Experiment 3 : From light to sound

Photosensitive audio pitch

Experiment 4 : Measuring light

Using phototransistors

Quick facts about phototransistors : Background : photons and electrons

Quick facts about the 555 : Quick facts about CMOS versus bipolar

Experiment 5 : The whooping sound

Experiment 6 : Easy on, easy off

Making comparisons : Quick facts about comparators

Feedback

Hysteresis

The symbol : Quick facts about plus and minus

The output : More quick facts about comparators

Inside the chip

The circuit redrawn : Warning : inverted comparators

Comparisons with a microcontroller

Make even more : a laser-based security system

Experiment 7 : It's chronophotonic!

Warning : avoid dangerous voltage

The circuit basics : Step two ; Circuit testing ; Relay details

The coupling capacitor

Cracking a clock : Warning : no AC-powered clocks! ; Looking inside ; Clock voltage ; How it beeps

Using the beeps : Hooking up the clock

How it ought to work

Testing : Connecting relay to lamp ; Warning : AC precautions

What's next?

Experiment 8 : Adventures in audio

Amping up : Introducing the electret

Can you hear me?

Background : microphone miscellany : Ups and downs of sound

Experiment 9 : From millivolts to volts

Putting a cap on it

Introducing the op-amp : What's the difference? ; A perfect pair ; Measuring the output

Experiment 10 : From sound to light

An LED-transistor combination

Experiment 11 : The need for negativity

Messing with measurement

DC amplification : The ins and outs of amplification ; Electronic Ritalin ; Gain

Background : negative origins : Pushing the limits

No pain, no gain! : Phase 1 : output voltages ; Phase 2 : input voltages ; Phase 3 : graphing it ; Phase 4 : the gain ; Is it right?

Splitting the difference

The basics : Basic with no split

Quick facts about op-amps

Experiment 12 : A functional amplifier

Introducing the 386 chip : The amplification circuit ; Troubleshooting the amplifier

Experiment 13 : No loud speaking!

Background : the Widlar story

Step by step : Sensing ; Will it really work? ; Background : voltage translation ; Noise protests, continued ; Power problems ; Fail? ; Just one more little thing

Experiment 14 : A successful protest

Timing is everything : Revision summary ; The noise test ; Make even more

Can you do it with a microcontroller?

What's next

Experiment 15 : It's all so logical!

Experiment 15 : telepathy test : Background : ESP ; The setup ; Quick facts about logic chips ; ESP logic ; Building it ; Making it better

Experiment 16 : Enhanced ESP

Are you ready? : Cheating revealed ; Failure indicated

Conflicts : The untangling ; Translating the chart

Optimizing : Building it ; Details ; The digital difference ; Making it even better ; Not so simple? ; Could we use a microcontroller?

Experiment 17 : Let's rock!

Background : probability : Background : game theory

The logic : Who's on?

Who's cheating? : Background : gate arrays

Experiment 18 : Time to switch

Background : an XNOR made from light switches : Back to the rock ; Showing which button ; Cheat proofing ; Fit to be tied ; Wiring it ; Cheat-proofed wiring ; Conclusion

Experiment 19 : Decoding telepathy

Decoder testing : Remembering binary ; Boarding it ; Decoder pinouts

Experiment 20 : Decoding rock, paper, scissors

The logic : The specification ; An unobtainable or ; Saved by NOR ; Boarding the simplified scheme ; Make even more ; Undecoding

Experiment 21 : The hot slot

Muxing it : Jumping and roaming ; Quick facts about muxes ; Mux pinouts ; Mux applications ; Analog versus digital mux ; Quick facts about mux variants

Game design : Slot counting ; Circuit design

Slot design : Hot slot testing

Who wins? : The payoff ; Understanding the odds ; Background : alternative game arrays

And a microcontroller?

Experiment 22 : Logically audible

Background : neither here nor Theremin

Logical audio : Audible XOR ; All mixed up

Experiment 23 : A puzzling project

Background : the British king of puzzles

Moving counters : The logical grid ; Using logic ; Switching Ovid ; Making even more ; Answer to the puzzle

Experiment 24 : Adding it up

The five rules of binary : From bits to states ; Background : the NAND alternative

Your own little adder : Breadboard addition

Experiment 25 : Enhancing your adder

Return of the decoder

DIPping in : Introducing an encoder ; Other encoder features ; Background : the power of binary ; Background : encode your own

Make even more : other input options : Can we switch it?

Make even more : switched binary adder : Making a table ; Switch specification

Make even more : other possibilities

Experiment 26 : Running rings

Ring demo : Warning : timer incompatibilities ; Annoying pin sequence ; Quick facts about headers ; Quick facts about ring counters

Making a game of it : Additional features ; Playability

Experiment 27 : Shifting bits

No bouncing! : Specifics

A bit-shifting demo : Quick facts about shift registers ; Pinouts

Background : bit streams : Modern applications

Experiment 28 : The Ching thing

Hexagrams : The display ; The straight and yarrow path ; The numbers ; Random sampling ; The look and feel ; The details ; Bars or LEDs ; Boarding the Ching thing ; Assembly and testing ; Ching usage

Packaging

Experiment 29 : Common sensors

The little magnetic switch : Reed test ; How it works

Level sensor : Fuel gauge ; Quick facts about reed switches ; Easy substitution ; Installing a reed switch

Background : magnetic polarity : Magnetic types and sources ; Magnetic shapes ; Make even more : eddy currents

Warning : magnetic hazards

Experiment 30 : Hidden detectors

Hall test : Applications

Quick facts about hall sensors : Hall types ; Sensor ideas

Make even more : miniature roll-the-ball game : Plastic bending ; Rolling-ball electronics

Experiment 31 : Electronic optics

Active light sensors : Warning : slow sensor death!

The numbers : Infrared sensor test ; Infrared LED test ; Phototransistor test ; Logic test ; Options ; Quick facts about transmissive optical sensors

Better slots : Proof of concept ; The schematic ; The breadboard

The slot box

Experiment 32 : Enhancing Ovid

The logic option : Switching it around ; Magnetic issues

Make even more : microcontrolling it

Experiment 33 : Reading rotation

Defining a rotational encoder : Specification ; The pulse train ; Warning : mediocre encoders

Inside the encoder : Encoder usage

It can be random : Rotational decider ; Rotational equivocator

Seriously random

Experiment 34 : Ambient sensing

One timer controlling another : Temperature control ; Random factors ; Automating the randomizing circuit ; Background : lower counting ; Speed adjustment

Quick facts about thermistors : Making a thermistor more random

Humidity sensor : Humidity control

Accelerometer

Touch sensor

Empirical issues

How random is random?

Experiment 35 : The LFSR

Getting to know your LFSR : Quick facts about a LFSR ; Bit-shifting in closeup ; The problem with zeroes ; The need to be nonrepeating ; Warning : XNOR idiosyncracies ; Running the test ; Ones and zeroes ; The problem of weighting ; Skipping 254 ; Sharing the clock input ; Any other options?

Seeding

Make even more : other games and other numbers

Make even more : microcontroller randomicity

Experiment 36 : The one-person paranormal paradigm

The last logic diagrams : Looking at part 2 ; Input logic ; The ready signal ; Random seeding ; Two more XORs ; Timing is everything

Making every guess count : Schematic part 2 ; Testing the tester

How unlikely is ESP? : Powers of the triangle ; John Walker's probabilities

Is that all?

Appendix A. Bibliography

Appendix B. Shopping for parts.

Notes:

"36 illustrated experiments that explain logic chips, amplifiers, sensors, and more"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sequel to: Make: electronics.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 17, 2014).

ISBN:

9781449344009

1449344003

9781449344023

144934402X

9781449344030

1449344038

OCLC:

880455757