Make: Electronics: Learning by Discovery: A hands-on primer for the new electronics enthusiast

I enjoy all of the Make books. They are for everyone from beginner to pro. I am old school and like holding and reading. I like to have reference material to lay in front of me if I need it rather than going to a website or forum. Books are very informative, packed with information and easy to find topics and read. Keep up the great work!

If you’re looking for an exception book on learning electronics then look no further. As a hobbyist that enjoys making circuits, I can tell you that not only were they fun to build but explains the theory of operation without complicating how it works. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to understand basic electronics and much more.

For many years I have been interested in learning electronics, and I have purchased what feels like over a dozen different books, kits or online courses. The material in nearly all of them were written by engineers and it felt like for engineers. Just could not get into them. Additionally, many of the other kits and courses force your to learn Arduios, which I am not against at a future date, but for right now, I want to understand the basics of schematics and working with breadboards. I want to learn the components, what they do and how to plan to use them. I want instruction using a basic multi-meter. Happy to learn about Arduino's later. Just not what I am still wrapping my mind around the basics.Determined, I decided to just start buying all of the beginner books out there until I found an instructor whose style resonated with me. THIS IS THE BOOK! Just WOW! Such clarity and simplicity to understand. Charles Platt clearly understands how to take a complex subject matter and make it palpable for a beginner like me. That is also not to say his understanding is surface level, he has a very DEEP understanding of electronics and has many additional books on the subject.Suffice it to say, I study his book EVERY MORNING now and am LOVING it. There are some things I need to re-read, but I definitely am having much more success with Make:Electronics 3rd Edition. (Always get the latest editions!)Also, there is an electronics component kit that comes with this book. I highly, HIGHLY recommend getting this kit as well, so you can physically create the breadboards and learn hands on as you go. You will be at a huge learning disadvantage if you do not do these experiments.Thank you Charles Platt! As a teacher myself, I appreciate the effort you have taken to make this difficult subject matter so accessible- I appreciate you!

I decided to get back into electronics recently, though I was never close to an expert. I bought 3 books and checked others out of the library. This is by far the most useful. It really gets you in working with your hands.

This has been a great way to get into electronics for me. I have pretty close to 0 background and so I wanted to start from the absolute beginning, and this book has been excellent for that. BUT, a word of caution. I will say that if you want to follow along exactly with this book, you should get the book first, and then buy one of the two kits from different companies that has the specific parts the author is talking about. They are listed in the back of the book. I purchased a kit before this book that has probably 70% of the parts he uses, but some resistors are rated slightly differently than what he uses for instance, and if you truly are starting from the beginning like I was, then all of the sudden I'm trying not only to learn what the author is saying, but also worrying about whether or not something will work because I have the wrong part or if it's because I did something wrong. That being said, at the end of the book there is an appendix so you can buy individual parts which is what I'm looking at, but in hindsight, even though the kits aren't cheap, it would have been so much easier and probably not much more expensive to just buy the kits pre-made. So, in summation, I recommend the book, but I wish I would have also bought the kit the author recommends. If you don't have that kit, you won't be able to dive right in and it'll take some extra research and extra time to get the parts to really get into the book and follow along exactly.

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This book is incredible. I can't recommend it highly enough! It takes something complicated and breaks it down to be understandable by anyone!

I’ve never learned so much from a single book before! Highly recommend this as well as getting all the parts from protechtraders. The learning journey would have been so much more tedious if I tried to wrap my head around shopping for all the parts separately. It’s true it probably costs a bit extra but it’s worth it! And now if I ever need any parts I’ll be less overwhelmed and know exactly what to get!