The Art of Electronics.-

[QSQCaito]

Hi, it's me again
I've just got this book(The Art of Electronics(second edition bte..), .pdf file) which i was told it was great to read, but when i opened it i realize there are 800+ pages. Has anyone read this book? Im going to print the first part and read it all, because there are the basics, but from the rest, what would you suggest to read, i dont wanna print it all neither

Thanks a lot, and i hope this help to some1 else too, im starting too fell guilty for asking too much:P

It seems like that's it

Good Bye and thanks

Diego Andrés Cao
PS Excuse my englush

[Tim Escobedo]

AoE is definitely one book I'd HATE to have in pdf format. Plain old analog paper is MUCH preferable. And worth the cost.

[QSQCaito]

Oh, i'm almost sure that's not the problem.. My mother has got a laser printer in her job, where she could easily print me 200 pages per day.. lot more than i can read per day..

Hopefully my cost remains "0" , going to what i posted previously, what is recommended to read, what to avoid. Does anybody know??

Thanks a lot
BBye

Diego Andrés Cao

[R.G.]

It is very difficult to tell you what to read and not read in that book. A good DIY guy should read it all.

Someday I will ... 

[grapefruit]

Maybe you should read copyright laws

I've read a large part of Art of Electronics over the years. It's the best electronics book I've read. The only parts I didn't find really usefull are switchmode power supplies, and microprocessors.

Stew.

[QSQCaito]

Maybe you should read copyright laws

I've read a large part of Art of Electronics over the years. It's the best electronics book I've read. The only parts I didn't find really usefull are switchmode power supplies, and microprocessors.

Stew.

Uhmm.. i don't understand what you ment with copyright laws :lol:  IM from argentina, spanish native language :lol:
Well it seems that i'll first read the introduction and all that basic teaching, and then maybe the basics of each, and learn more through here and breadboard

thank a lot

cya

[grapefruit]

Sounds like a good idea. The first four chapters are the most useful for building effects. The first chapter will prepare you for the rest of them. It's good that you want to learn rather than just build. Good luck with it.

Cheers,
Stew.

[tommy.genes]

Penn State used The Art of Electronics for a course called "Electronics for Non-Engineers" or something like that - maybe they still do. The course's goal was to enable scientists and other non-electrical engineering students to design and build their own instrumentation for experiments. As an EE student frustrated with what I saw as an overly theoretical approach to the curriculum, I signed up for this class - and I quickly found that I wasn't the only one that felt this way.

The course was offered outside of the regular EE Department and, unfortunately, the Department had pretty much singled it out to not count towards a degree, not even as an elective. It definitely wasn't a slouch course, and in light of all my other coursework, I couldn't justify the effort and expense without receiving any credit in return. So I dropped the course - still have the book, though.

-- T. G. --

[QSQCaito]

Sounds like a good idea. The first four chapters are the most useful for building effects. The first chapter will prepare you for the rest of them. It's good that you want to learn rather than just build. Good luck with it.

Cheers,
Stew.

I built a Marshall Blues Breaker, i started with all these because i wanted a wah, and my father knows enough of electronics, he had the tools and everything.. but when i did the Blues Breaker, which it worked and very good, i felt i had the least idea of what i was doing, it was time to know a bit more, i know just basic things, but not enough, at least for me.
I know that if you do things ok, pedals will work, but i'd like to go beyond, so i bought a breadbord, and now that im doing my 3rd pedal, i breadboard and experiment with it, to see how some things change, and maybe to mod it.. but very little

Bye bye

Diego Andrés Cao

[koulis]

Just bought it from EBAY... worth the money!!!It is concidered to be one of the best out there! Definitely a must read for the DIY who wants to understand what hides inside those little magic boxes!!!

[phaeton]

I just got it from inter-library loan from my local library.  After thumbing through it a little bit I'm definately just going to go out and buy my own copy.  I'll check the used book stores first, but if that fails, my birthday comes up next month ;-)

It's not that all that I'm bored with stompboxes and amplifiers so much, but my electronics interests seem to be drifting towards non-audio stuff. 

[MartyMart]

I bought a copy just over a year ago , fantastic book which has helped me a LOT to  understand
what's going on in those "9v boxes" !
Only "down side" is that it cost me £50 .... 90 bucks !! 

Opamp and Transistor sections are superb .

MM.

[QSQCaito]

Wow.. now i realize how lucky i was..90bucks here is A LOT of money, i can build like 4/5 pedals.. is 270 pesos argentinos.. and.. in here would cost over 150 with all taxes, i got it pdfed, and my mother will print it in her job, 50 pages a day.. but i won't print it all.. just what i'll read.
Bye bye

Diego Andrés Cao

PS i'll read the beginning and opamp and transistor then.. any transistor section in specific, there are over 200 pages of transistor i think.. lol

BYe!