Electronics Projects for Dummies
408 pages | PDF | 12,7 MB
If you’ve caught the electronics bug, you’re ready to try all kinds of projects that will help you develop your skills while creating weird and wonderful gadgets. That’s what this book is about: providing projects that are fun and interesting as well as helping you find out about all kinds of electronic circuits and components.
Electronics Projects For Dummies is a great way to break into electronics or expand your electronics horizons. Here, we provide projects that allow you to dabble in using sound chips, motion detectors, light effects, and more. And all the projects are low voltage, so if you follow our safety advice, no electronics folks will be hurt in the process.
Electronics projects not only help you build useful and fun gadgets, but you pick up a lot of knowledge along the way about how various electronic parts work, how to read a circuit diagram, and how to use tools such as soldering irons and multimeters. So by using this book, you have fun and get some knowledge at the same time.
This book provides you with just what you need to get going in the fun world of electronics. It offers projects that you can build in a reasonable amount of time — and in most cases, for very little money!!!
Sound Projects like:
* to make lights dance to music,
* create a parabolic microphone to pick up sounds at a distance,
* make a wizard that talks when you push his buttons, and
* create your own AM radio.
Light projects like:
* light up a pumpkin by using a motion detector,
* create a light display that will make your next party rock, and
* build a go-kart that you direct by using an infrared remote control device.
Vibrations projects like:
* create a metal detector,
* a radio controlled vehicle that senses light and runs around a track, and
* a device that sits on your couch and raises a ruckus if your pet jumps on the cushion.
All Projects are nicely illustrated......