Introduction 1Book 1: Getting Started with Electronics 7Chapter 1: Welcome to Electronics 9Chapter 2: Understanding Electricity 21Chapter 3: Creating Your Mad-Scientist Lab 37Chapter 4: Staying Safe 61Chapter 5: Reading Schematic Diagrams 71Chapter 6: Building Projects 85Chapter 7: The Secrets of Successful Soldering 121Chapter 8: Measuring Circuits with a Multimeter 133Chapter 9: Catching Waves with an Oscilloscope 149Book 2: Working with Basic Electronic Components 161Chapter 1: Working with Basic Circuits 163Chapter 2: Working with Resistors 203Chapter 3: Working with Capacitors 235Chapter 4: Working with Inductors 261Chapter 5: Working with Diodes and LEDs 275Chapter 6: Working with Transistors 301Book 3: Working with Integrated Circuits 331Chapter 1: Introducing Integrated Circuits 333Chapter 2: The Fabulous 555 Timer Chip 345Chapter 3: Working with Op-Amps 383Book 4: Beyond Direct Current 403Chapter 1: Getting into Alternating Current 405Chapter 2: Building Power Supplies 429Chapter 3: Understanding Radio 441Chapter 4: Working with Infrared 467Book 5: Doing Digital Electronics 485Chapter 1: Understanding Digital Electronics 487Chapter 2: Getting Logical 503Chapter 3: Working with Logic Circuits 523Chapter 4: Working with Flip-Flops 561Chapter 5: Introducing Microcontrollers 591Book 6: Working with Arduino Microprocessors 597Chapter 1: Introducing Arduino 599Chapter 2: Creating Arduino Sketches 615Chapter 3: More Arduino Programming Tricks 647Chapter 4: An Arduino Proximity Sensor 665Chapter 5: Adding Sound and Motion to Your Arduino Projects 681Chapter 6: Keypads and Keyboards 711Book 7: Working with Raspberry Pi 735Chapter 1: Introducing Raspberry Pi 737Chapter 2: Programming in Python 759Chapter 3: Reading Digital and Analog Input 791Book 8: Special Effects 813Chapter 1: Building a Color Organ 815Chapter 2: Animating Holiday Lights 827Chapter 3: Building an Animatronic Prop Controller 851Chapter 4: Re-Creating a Retro Science-Fiction Robot Head 881Index 893
Doug Lowe is the information technology director at Blair, Church & Flynn Consulting Engineers, a civil engineering firm. He has written more than 50 For Dummies books on topics ranging from Java to electronics to PowerPoint.