Unfortunately, I'm a glutton for punishment and therefore tend to gravitate to the more "bland" texts as you put it.
However, while I personally do not own nor read any of the following texts, I have heard they are quite good for DIYs, hobbyist and beginners:
MAKE series:
Make: Electronics
Evil Genius Series:
Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius 2/E
Evil Genius Search
Mims Series:
Electronic Formulas, Symbols & Circuits
Forrest M. Mims III Author Page
There are numerous texts available in each series, covering a wide range of topics and have a relatively low sticker price.
BigDog
You don't have to read it all at once. I have a copy on the shelf next to me (about 25 years old - only 700 pages). It's a good reference. e.g. if I want to make a 4'th order Butterworth filter, I can look in the book to see how that's done. It's good to know the basics, but you don't have to remember all the details - that's what books are for. It's not important to have all the information you need inside your head - what is important is that you know where and how to find the information you need.The Art of Electronics is good but it is over 1000 pages and most of it is extremely bland!
Me neither. So what? You don't need that stuff to build a circuit. Having all those tools and materials lets you build nice boxes, but that's box-building, not electronics.I see so many posts about people just casually saying that they took their dremmel to a sheet of plexiglass. I don't own any plexiglass and i sure as hell don't own a dremmel.
Most important is a decent soldering iron and a multimeter that works. You don't need the best brand - just something that works. A wire cutter is nice, but you can always use a kitchen scissors or something.I have a soldering iron but i don't know what else i should get. The obvious tools are multimeter, wire cutters, wire strippers, etc. What are the best brands and where do i get these?
No!Also should i purchase and arduino?
The most fun I ever had was with a one transistor radio transmitter. "Police siren" sound effects are fun too - the sort you can make with a couple of NE555s or a NE556. Radio receivers and audio amplifiers are good too, or maybe radio control for models.I forgot to ask, what are some fun projects that aren't terrible overwhelming but not stupid-easy.
You don't have to read it all at once. I have a copy on the shelf next to me (about 25 years old - only 700 pages). It's a good reference. e.g. if I want to make a 4'th order Butterworth filter, I can look in the book to see how that's done. It's good to know the basics, but you don't have to remember all the details - that's what books are for. It's not important to have all the information you need inside your head - what is important is that you know where and how to find the information you need.
Me neither. So what? You don't need that stuff to build a circuit. Having all those tools and materials lets you build nice boxes, but that's box-building, not electronics.
Most important is a decent soldering iron and a multimeter that works. You don't need the best brand - just something that works. A wire cutter is nice, but you can always use a kitchen scissors or something.
No!
Please don't turn into one of those people who thinks they have to use a microcontroller for everything.
Sorry, that's one of my pet peeves. I'm sick to death of answering questions from people who've built an MCU based project, but need help with something as simple as a resistive divider at the input because they don't even understand Ohm's law.
Half the time what they're trying to do could be achieved with a 555 chip or two transistors, but they don't realize that because they never learned any of the basics of electronics.
The most fun I ever had was with a one transistor radio transmitter. "Police siren" sound effects are fun too - the sort you can make with a couple of NE555s or a NE556. Radio receivers and audio amplifiers are good too, or maybe radio control for models.
Thanks so much for the reply!
I figured that The Art Of Electronics was one of the best references out there (considering i have heard more than one person call it the "bible of electronics").
The reason i ask about the tools is because i feel like everyone has a garage full or stuff to make their electronics pretty and cool. I guess it really isn't important for the real part of building it: the soldering!
I will grab a multimeter for sure!
thats EXACTLY the kind of person i do NOT want to be! I know arduino's and other microprocessors are extremely usefull for some projects (like interfacting with computer software, etc) but the reason i asked about analog projects in one of my earlier posts and bigdogguru linked me to some transistor based analog projects: I really want to learn how to manipulate analog circuits before i start relying too heavily on digital components!
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