Looking for good resources

[phr3d0m2gr0]

Hey i'm a relative newb to electronics building, but i'm in a class in college right now (electrical fundamentals). Anyway i'm wanting to build something fairly complex in the future, but i need to start out with some good reading. So can anyone reccommend a website or maybe a book to buy to read about electronics. I'm already learning about DC voltage circuits, resistors, all the basic stuff right now so anything just a tad more advanced.

for my future project i'm looking to setup something that can be used for climate control and monitoring from a laptop. So obviously i will need temp, humidity sensors and such that can either send a signal wirelessly back to the laptop or use a USB cable. As far as controller i probably be using timers that can be programmed to turn outlets on or off depending on certain climate readings. So if there is any info that could get me started in this direction that would be great.

-Phr3

 

[Venkata Krishna]

use google with the string "Data Loggers". You will get a lot of results on this. I have worked on a similar module but through serial and rj45 ports.

YOu can ping me back if you want know the rj45 way (embedded web server).

Regards

 

[arefeidi]

So can anyone reccommend a website or maybe a book to buy to read about electronics. I'm already learning about DC voltage circuits, resistors, all the basic stuff right now so anything just a tad more advanced.

Maybe not that advanced (though, that's depending on were you're standing now), but as you said you're relative new to electronics Thomas Floyd's books are always worth a recommendation, especially those two (don't know much about his other books):

- Principles of Electric Circuits (Thomas L.Floyd)
- Electronics Fundamentals (Thomas L.Floyd)

He's able to explain some complicated things a bit easier than others do. Great books to start with and get all the basic knowledge (and a bit more).

 

[narfnarf]

Art of Electronics by Horowitz

 

[joe_chen]

some people look for this book

 

[venix]

Hi!
Here is a link for The Arts of Electronics by Paul Horowitz

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for Sensors and transducers by Ian Sinclair

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password for this book : ebook

and the last one is Interfacing Sensors to the IBM PC by W.Tompkins

http://mihd.net/y13thl/__482f913__via_gigapedia.info__.html

Best regards!
Venix