Teardowns: Learn How Electronics Work by Taking Them Apart
Author(s): Bryan Bergeron
Contains 14 projects that expose the inner workings of household appliances, workbench measuring instruments, and musical equipment. This book helps to discover how resistors, capacitors, sensors, transducers, and transistors function in real circuitry.
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Bryan Bergeron is editor of Nuts & Volts Magazine and Servo Magazine, the author of several hundred articles, and two dozen books, and owner of several patents. He teaches in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Bryan's company, Archetype Technologies, Inc., develops intelligent systems in the military.
Part I: Around the Home; Chapter 1. Dual Sensor Smoke Alarm; Chapter 2. Motion Activated LED Light; Chapter 3. Digital Bathroom Scale; Chapter 4. Surge Protective Devices; Chapter 5. Electronic Pedometer; Chapter 6. Compact Fluorescent(CF) Lamp; Chapter 7. Ultrasonic Humidifier; Chapter 8. Digital Hygro-Thermometer; Chapter 9. Stereo Power Amplifier; Part II: For Tinkerers; Chapter 10. Analog Volt-Ohm-Meter; Chapter 11. Laser-Guided Sonic Distance Measurer; Part III: For Musicians; Chapter 12. Electric Guitar; Chapter 13. Effects Pedal; Chapter 14. Vacuum Tube Guitar Amplifier; Part IV: Appendixes; Appendix A. Component Markings; Appendix B. Resources; Index
General Fields
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- : McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- : TAB Books Inc
- : 0.584
- : 01 August 2010
- : 231mm X 185mm X 17mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Bryan Bergeron
- : Paperback
- : 621.381
- : 352
- : ill