Radio waves are all around us. They're used by cell phones, Wi-Fi routers, TV dishes, and even satellite networks to convey data on thousands of different frequencies. When we unlock a car door with the push of a button or stream music to wireless earbuds, that's radio. It's a simple yet dynamic technology that has been harnessed by creative experimenters for over a century--and now you can join the adventure!

Author Fredrik Jansson demystifies the world of radio through a dozen innovative projects, enabling readers to build inexpensive radio circuits such as transmitters and receivers, remote controls, and a working metal detector. Radio concepts are also adapted for the Raspberry Pi Pico, updating classic concepts with contemporary tools for accuracy and power.

With more than 150 color images, step-by-step instructions and detailed explanations, and a handy materials list of components and sources, this is the ultimate guide to explore the hidden universe of radio waves!

How to Solder Electronics is a definitive guide that takes aspiring electronics enthusiasts and hobbyists on an immersive journey into the world of soldering. This comprehensive book equips readers with the knowledge and skills needed to master the art of soldering, from the basics to advanced techniques.
Written by experienced electronics experts, this guide is designed to demystify the soldering process and empower readers to confidently tackle electronic projects. It covers a wide range of topics, including the importance of soldering in electronics, different types of solder, tools and equipment required, safety precautions, and best practices.
Readers will learn step-by-step techniques for through-hole soldering, surface mount component soldering, and soldering wires and cables. The book also delves into troubleshooting common soldering defects and provides practical solutions for repair and rework. With detailed explanations, accompanied by clear illustrations and photographs, this guide ensures that readers understand the principles and techniques behind successful soldering. It goes beyond the basics, offering insights into fine-pitch soldering, reflow soldering, and hot air rework.
How to Solder Electronics emphasizes the importance of precision and accuracy in soldering, providing readers with tools and techniques for precise soldering on circuit boards. It also covers advanced topics such as soldering multi-pin components and ICs, circuit board preparation and cleaning, and insulation techniques.
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced electronics enthusiast, this book is your indispensable companion for honing your soldering skills. By mastering the art of soldering, you will be able to confidently undertake a wide range of electronic projects, repairs, and modifications. Embark on your soldering journey today and unlock the full potential of electronics with How to Solder Electronics: A Comprehensive Guide to Soldering.

Are you intrigued by the world of electronics but feel overwhelmed by its complexities? Look no further! Electronics For Absolute Beginners is your ultimate guide to demystifying the fascinating realm of electronics and empowering you to become a confident electronics enthusiast.

This comprehensive book starts from the very basics, assuming no prior knowledge, making it ideal for absolute beginners. It takes you on an exciting journey, unraveling the secrets of electricity, current flow, and electronic components. With clear explanations and engaging examples, you'll grasp fundamental concepts like voltage, current, resistance, and Ohm's Law.

As you delve deeper, you'll discover the diverse range of electronic components and their functions. From resistors and capacitors to diodes and transistors, you'll learn how each component plays a crucial role in building electronic circuits. With step-by-step instructions, you'll gain hands-on experience in constructing circuits on a breadboard and PCB, turning theory into practice.

But that's not all! This book goes beyond the basics and explores exciting topics like microcontrollers and sensors. With its approachable writing style, vibrant illustrations, and practical examples, Electronics For Absolute Beginners makes learning electronics a joyous adventure. Whether you're a hobbyist, student, or aspiring electronics enthusiast, this book equips you with the knowledge and confidence to embark on your own electronic journey.

Don't let the intricacies of electronics intimidate you any longer. Embrace the world of electrons and circuits with Electronics For Absolute Beginners and unlock your potential to create, innovate, and explore the limitless possibilities of the electronic universe.

This book provides practical guidance and application information when using transistors in electronic and electrical circuit design. This easy-to-use book covers all transistor types including: Bipolar, Power, RF, Digital, IGBT, Unijunction, FET, JFET, and MOSFETs. This book also has a very comprehensive Glossary, Index, and Equations. The Transistor Handbook, one in a series of component handbooks, has the answers to all of your daily application questions. The other handbooks cover capacitors, resistors, inductors, and diodes.

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A DIY guide to designing and building transistor radios

Create sophisticated transistor radios that are inexpensive yet highly efficient. Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits offers complete projects with detailed schematics and insights on how the radios were designed. Learn how to choose components, construct the different types of radios, and troubleshoot your work. Digging deeper, this practical resource shows you how to engineer innovative devices by experimenting with and radically improving existing designs.

Build Your Own Transistor Radios covers:

• Calibration tools and test generators
• TRF, regenerative, and reflex radios
• Basic and advanced superheterodyne radios
• Coil-less and software-defined radios
• Transistor and differential-pair oscillators
• Filter and amplifier design techniques
• Sampling theory and sampling mixers
• In-phase, quadrature, and AM broadcast signals
• Resonant, detector, and AVC circuits
• Image rejection and noise analysis methods

This is the perfect guide for electronics hobbyists and students who want to delve deeper into the topic of radio. Overall, this extremely well written and comprehensively illustrated guide and reference deserves a place on the inquisitive radio amateur's bookshelf. -- QST

I would definitely recommend this book to novices and all hobbyists and engineers who have not have much practical exposure to radio design and development. -- EDN

Make Great Stuff
TAB, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Professional, is a leading publisher of DIY technology books for makers, hackers, and electronics hobbyists.

From the time when Charles Babbage first started construction of his difference engine through the construction of the Colossus computing machine and into the electronic micro circuit era the computer processing machine has undergone rapid and astounding development. From machines capable of carrying out a few calculations each minute the modern microprocessor is able to perform calculations in less than a second that the early machines would have taken over a thousand years to complete.
This book winds back the clock almost 50 years to the dawn of the electronic microprocessor to show how a microprocessor can be built using only transistors.
Includes all circuit diagrams and explanations on how they work through to the development of a fully functional unit that is capable of executing programs while displaying the inner workings of this amazing device.
The reader can either follow the construction to build their own processor or just read through the process. Either way the information contained in this book should provide a source of interest for those who really want to understand how the processor at the core of almost every electronic system actually works.

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Set up your own home electronics workshop

In this practical guide, electronics expert Stan Gibilisco shows you, step by step, how to set up a home workshop so you can invent, design, build, test, and repair electronic circuits and gadgets. Electronics Workshop Companion for Hobbyists provides tips for constructing your workbench and stocking it with the tools, components, and test equipment you'll need. Clear illustrations and interesting do-it-yourself experiments are included throughout this hands-on resource.

Learn techniques, calculations, and formulas for working with:

• Resistors
• Capacitors
• Inductors
• Transformers
• Diodes
• Transistors
• Integrated circuits
• And more

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Title: Shortwave Radio Mastery: A Listener's Journey

Unlock the Secrets of the Airwaves

Dive into the captivating world of Shortwave Radio Mastery: A Listener's Journey and embark on an adventure like no other. In this comprehensive guide, readers will discover the mystique, allure, and boundless possibilities of shortwave radio. This book is your key to mastering the art of listening to distant voices, music, and cultures from every corner of the globe.

Inside the pages of Shortwave Radio Mastery, you will:

Explore the Science: Delve into the fascinating science of shortwave radio propagation, unravelling the enigmatic atmospheric conditions that make global communication possible.

Equip Your Shack: Learn about the essential equipment and antennas needed to establish a powerful listening post, allowing you to capture the farthest signals.

Decode the Bands: Understand the intricacies of shortwave bands, frequencies, and the broadcast schedules that guide your listening experience.

Journey Across Borders: Join us on a trip around the world, where you'll encounter international broadcasters, utility stations, and mysterious number stations.

Join the Community: Connect with fellow radio enthusiasts, learn about clubs, online forums, and the traditions that make shortwave radio a shared passion.

But Shortwave Radio Mastery goes beyond the technical aspects. It delves into the rich history of shortwave radio, its role in times of conflict and peace, and its significance in fostering cultural exchange and diplomacy. From historic milestones to stories of espionage, this book provides a vivid tapestry of the global influence of shortwave.

As we gaze into the future, we also explore the challenges and opportunities in an ever-evolving technological landscape. What does the future hold for shortwave radio, and how can you be a part of it?

Whether you're a newcomer eager to explore the world through shortwave or a seasoned DXer looking to enhance your skills, this book is your ultimate companion on your listener's journey. Immerse yourself in the magic of shortwave radio and unlock the boundless wonders of the airwaves.

Shortwave Radio Mastery: A Listener's Journey is not just a guide; it's an invitation to share in the excitement, wonder, and limitless possibilities of a world where the airwaves are a gateway to adventure and understanding. Your journey begins here. Happy listening!

Ever wanted to know how things work, especially electronic devices? This informative guide tells you all about the building blocks that make up electronic circuits and the components that make an electronic device tick. It explains electronics in an easy to understand way and then takes you through some simple but useful circuits that you can build for yourself. Areas covered include:

the basic fundamentals of electricity

getting started in electronics

electronic theory explained

resistors and capacitors - what they do

transistors - how they work

crystals and coils

basic electronic building blocks

simple circuits described and explained

how a radio works

designing simple circuits

circuit design software

making printed circuit boards

building electronic circuits

soldering techniques

test equipment

circuit testing and fault finding

Electronics in easy steps is ideal for anyone who has always wanted to know how electricity works and what electronic components do - from simple theory through to actually building, testing and troubleshooting useful and interesting circuits. Learn how to design circuits, make your own printed circuit boards and explore the exciting world of electronics.

The user target for the book will be:

Students, 15 (GCSE) to 19

DIY and Electronics Enthusiasts

Hobbyists (general)

Radio Hobbyists

Short Wave Listeners and Radio Amateur Foundation Exam students

Members of the Cadets, Scouts, etc.

and anyone with an inquisitive mind who want to know how electricity and electronics works

Module 2, Introduction to Alternating Current and Transformers, is an introduction to alternating current (ac) and transformers, including basic ac theory and fundamentals of electromagnetism, inductance, capacitance, impedance, and transformer

Current leading-edge CMOS transistors are about as small as they will get. We now have a simple, clear, very physical understanding of how these devices function, but it has not yet entered our textbooks. Besides, CMOS logic transistors, power transistors are increasingly important as are III-V heterostructure transistors for high-frequency communication. Transistor reliability is also important but rarely treated in introductory textbooks.As we begin a new era, in which making transistors smaller will no longer be a major driving force for progress, it is time to look back at what we have learned in transistor research. Today we see a need to convey as simply and clearly as possible the essential physics of the device that makes modern electronics possible. That is the goal of these lectures. This volume rearranges the familiar topics and distills the most essential among them, while adding most recent approaches which have become crucial to the discussion. To follow the lectures, readers need only a basic understanding of semiconductor physics. Familiarity with transistors and electronic circuits is helpful, but not assumed.Related Link(s)

This full-color, illustrated handbook uses comic book-style panels to explain the basics of using a breadboard; then it walks you through ten fun and educational projects. You'll learn-by-doing as you study the circuit diagrams and colorful drawings, working your way through each project. Bonus features include an X-Ray drawing of the inside of the breadboard and a guide to understanding resistor color codes.

A solderless breadboard is the perfect platform for learning electronics, whether at home or in the classroom, because it can be used over and over again for different circuits. With the projects in this handbook, you will learn how to use a light sensor, a potentiometer, a diode, a 555 timer, capacitors, transistors, and more! You'll also be challenged to actively figure out what else you can do with the circuits you have built.

Learn how to build the following circuits:

• Dark Detector
• LED Flasher
• Electric Cricket
• Breathing LED
• Banshee Siren
• Light Theramin
• Blues Organ
• Bike Signal Light
• Touch Switch
• Led Color Organ

As you gain experience building the circuits, you'll also learn how to read schematics - the shorthand language of electronics. The glossary provides definitions and illustrations for terms that may be unfamiliar.

There's no better way to learn than by making things yourself. In this booklet you won't be handed all the answers. You'll be encouraged to experiment, and you'll be asked questions that you'll have to try to answer yourself. Get started with your breadboard experiments today.

Electronics is the perfect STEM subject because it touches on all the key components - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Build your technical skills with this hands-on learning course!

This book describes high frequency power MOSFET gate driver technologies, including gate drivers for GaN HEMTs, which have great potential in the next generation of switching power converters. Gate drivers serve as a critical role between control and power devices.

In recent years, there has been a trend to increase the switching frequency beyond multi-MHz in switching power converters to reduce the passive components and significantly improve power density. However, this results in high switching loss and gate driver loss in power MOSFETs. The novel approach in this book is the proposed Current Source Gate Driver (CSD) including different topologies, control and applications. The CSD can reduce the switching transition time and switching loss significantly, and recover high frequency gate driver loss compared to conventional voltage gate drivers. The basic idea can also be extended to other power devices to improve high frequency switching performance such as SiC MOSFET and IGBT. Topics covered in the book include the state-of-the-art of power MOSFET drive techniques, the switching loss model, current source gate drivers (CSDs), resonant gate drivers, adaptive gate drivers and GaN HEMT gate drivers.

The book is essential reading for design engineers, researchers and advanced students working in switching power supplies and in power electronics generally.

Includes solutions to all of the problems at the end of each chapter. Topics include types of amplifiers and design factors that affect bandwidth and frequency response, types of coupling including electronic networks and transformers, impedance considerations and how to tailor impedance to the requirements of the circuit; the use of positive and negative feedback in design of multistage circuits, the use of phase splitters in designs, low and high frequency compensation schemes, and applications of differential amplifiers and op amps. There are sections specific to audio amplifiers, video amplifiers, RF amplifiers, and the book concludes with a section on Magnetic Amplifiers and how to control inductance by design, including core windings, types of cores, etc. There is a glossary of terms and a detailed index at the back.

Winner, 2013 PROSE Award, Engineering and Technology

Concise, high quality and comparative overview of state-of-the-art electron device development, manufacturing technologies and applications

Guide to State-of-the-Art Electron Devices marks the 60th anniversary of the IRE electron devices committee and the 35th anniversary of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, as such it defines the state-of-the-art of electron devices, as well as future directions across the entire field.

• Spans full range of electron device types such as photovoltaic devices, semiconductor manufacturing and VLSI technology and circuits, covered by IEEE Electron and Devices Society
• Contributed by internationally respected members of the electron devices community
• A timely desk reference with fully-integrated colour and a unique lay-out with sidebars to highlight the key terms
• Discusses the historical developments and speculates on future trends to give a more rounded picture of the topics covered

A valuable resource R&D managers; engineers in the semiconductor industry; applied scientists; circuit designers; Masters students in power electronics; and members of the IEEE Electron Device Society.

The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (NEETS) was developed for use by personnel in many electrical- and electronic-related Navy ratings. Written by, and with the advice of, senior technicians in these ratings, this series provides beginners with fundamental electrical and electronic concepts through self-study. The presentation of this series is not oriented to any specific rating structure, but is divided into modules containing related information organized into traditional paths of instruction.

Introduction to Wave Propagation, Transmission Lines, and Antennas, presents the characteristics of wave propagation, transmission lines, and antennas.

Introduction to Solid-State Devices and Power Supplies, is similar to module 6, but it is in reference to solid-state devices.