Name: Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition
ISBN: 9781259587559

Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition

A Fully-Updated, No-Nonsense Guide to Electronics Advance your electronics knowledge and gain the skills necessary to develop and construct your own functioning gadgets. Written by a pair of experienced engineers and dedicated hobbyists, Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, lays out the essentials and provides step-by-step instructions, schematics, and illustrations. Discover how to select the right components, design and build circuits, use microcontrollers and ICs, work with the latest software tools, and test and tweak your creations. This easy-to-follow book features new instruction on programmable logic, semiconductors, operational amplifiers, voltage regulators, power supplies, digital electronics, and more. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, covers: Resistors, capacitors, inductors, and transformers Diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits Optoelectronics, solar cells, and phototransistors Sensors, GPS modules, and touch screens Op amps, regulators, and power supplies Digital electronics, LCD displays, and logic gates Microcontrollers and prototyping platforms Combinational and sequential programmable logic DC motors, RC servos, and stepper motors Microphones, audio amps, and speakers Modular electronics and prototypes

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e28etaApr 2025

I really liked Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk.

I’m definitely interested in more electronics books for self study though.

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nabla9Jul 2024

Making Embedded Systems by Elecia White https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/making-embedded-systems...

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Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition 4th Edition by Scherz, Simon Monk

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jimmychoozyxJul 2023

Best book on the topic for people w/o EE degree who want to learn practical EE (in my humble opinion):

"Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition"

Book by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk

Word on the street is that it can be found on https://libgen.is/

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FL410May 2023

I'll admit I haven't read the full thing, but I have and like Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition

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dsabaninApr 2018

I really loved this one:

Paul Scherz & Dr. Simon Monk's "Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition" [1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourt...

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TheCowboyNov 2017

Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition by Scherz and Monk (1056 pages) ~$25

I've only used the 3rd edition, but I found it very accessible and well-written. I think the 4th edition has expanded content for microcontrollers and plan on getting it when I have the time to play around with electronics again.

What I liked about the book is that it provided information in a practical way so you could "just build something" without knowing all of the theory, but the theory was available when you wanted to increase your depth of understanding.

I admit the title is cheesy, but I could see this book being used to teach an introductory class on electronics. It also serves as a good reference entry point for topics/electronics where you're completely clueless.

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