Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius: 64 Lessons with Projects

✍ Scribed by Dave Cutcher

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 317
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fully updated throughout, this wickedly inventive guide introduces electronic circuits and circuit design, both analog and digital, through a series of projects youll complete one simple lesson at a time. The separate lessons build on each other and add up to projects you can put to practical use. You dont need to know anything about electronics to get started. A pre-assembled kit, which includes all the components and PC boards to complete the book projects, is available separately from ABRA electronics on Amazon.

Using easy-to-find components and equipment, Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius, Second Edition, provides hours of rewarding--and slightly twisted--fun. Youll gain valuable experience in circuit construction and design as you test, modify, and observe your results--skills you can put to work in other exciting circuit-building projects.

Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius:

Features step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations
Provides tips for customizing the projects
Covers the underlying electronics principles behind the projects
Removes the frustration factor--all required parts are listed, along with sources

Build these and other devious devices:

Automatic night light
Light-sensitive switch
Along-to-digital converter
Voltage-controlled oscillator
Op amp-controlled power amplifier
Burglar alarm
Logic gate-based toy
Two-way intercom using transistors and op amps

Each fun, inexpensive Genius project includes a detailed list of materials, sources for parts, schematics, and lots of clear, well-illustrated instructions for easy assembly. The larger workbook-style layout and convenient two-column format make following the step-by-step instructions a breeze.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Preface......Page 19
Common Components, Symbols, and Appearance......Page 21
Part One: Components......Page 25
Lesson 1 Inventory of Parts Used in Part One......Page 29
Lesson 2 Major Equipment......Page 32
Lesson 3 Your First Circuit......Page 35
Lesson 4 Reading Resistors......Page 39
Lesson 5 The Effect Resistors Have on a Circuit......Page 41
Lesson 6 The Potentiometer......Page 43
Lesson 7 Light-Dependent Resistors......Page 45
Lesson 8 Capacitors and Push Buttons......Page 49
Lesson 9 Introducing Transistors......Page 55
Lesson 10 The PNP Transistor......Page 58
Lesson 11 The Phototransistor: Shedding Some Light on Another Component......Page 62
Lesson 12 Your First Project: The Automatic Night Light......Page 67
Lesson 13 Specialized Transistors—The SCR......Page 73
Lesson 14 The Regulated Power Supply......Page 78
Part Two: Introduction to Digital Electronics......Page 81
Lesson 15 A Spoiled Billionaire......Page 85
Lesson 16 The Basic Digital Logic Gates......Page 90
Lesson 17 Integrated Circuits CMOS ICs......Page 96
Lesson 18 Building the First NAND Gate Circuit......Page 101
Lesson 19 Testing the Input at Test Point 1......Page 104
Lesson 20 Test Point 2—The NAND Gate Processor at Work......Page 105
Lesson 21 Test Point 3—Introducing the Resistor/Capacitor Circuit......Page 107
Lesson 22 Test Point 4—The Inputs Are Switches......Page 110
Lesson 23 Understanding Voltage Dividers......Page 115
Lesson 24 Create a Light-Sensitive Switch......Page 120
Lesson 25 The Touch Switch......Page 121
Lesson 26 Building the NAND Gate Oscillator......Page 123
Lesson 27 Understanding the NAND Gate Oscillator......Page 127
Lesson 28 Controlling the Flash Rate......Page 131
Lesson 29 Create a Sound Output and Annoy the Person Next to You......Page 134
Lesson 30 Introducing the Oscilloscope......Page 136
Lesson 31 Scoping Out the Circuit......Page 143
Lesson 32 Using a Transistor to Amplify the Output......Page 146
Lesson 33 The Photo Transistor: You Can’t Do This with an LDR......Page 148
Lesson 34 Design—Systems and Samples......Page 151
Lesson 35 Consider What Is Realistic......Page 164
Lesson 36 Building Your Project......Page 166
Part Three: Counting Systems in Electronics......Page 169
Lesson 37 Introducing Possibilities—Electronics That Count......Page 173
Lesson 38 RC1—Creating the Switch......Page 174
Lesson 39 Introducing the 4046 Voltage-Controlled Oscillator......Page 177
Lesson 40 Introducing the Walking Ring 4017 Decade Counter......Page 183
Lesson 41 Understanding the Clock Signal Used by the 4017......Page 187
Lesson 42 Controlling the Count—Using the Chip’s Control Inputs......Page 190
Lesson 43 Introducing the Seven-Segment LED......Page 193
Lesson 44 Control the Seven-Segment Display Using the 4511 BCD......Page 194
Lesson 45 Decimal to Binary—The 4516......Page 198
Lesson 46 The Displays Automatically Fade Out......Page 204
Lesson 47 Defining and Designing Your Project......Page 207
Lesson 48 Your Project: If You Can Define It, You Can Make It!......Page 213
Part Four: Amplifiers: What They Are and How to Use Them......Page 219
Lesson 49 Transistors as Amplifiers and Defining Current......Page 223
Lesson 50 Defining Work, Force, and Power......Page 229
Lesson 51 What Do I Have to Gain?: Definitions......Page 234
Lesson 52 The World Is Analog, So Analog Is the World......Page 236
Lesson 53 Alternating Current Compared with Direct Current......Page 239
Lesson 54 AC in a DC Environment......Page 244
Lesson 55 Setting Up the Operational Amplifier......Page 246
Lesson 56 Using Feedback to Control Gain......Page 253
Lesson 57 Building a Power Amplifier Controlled by an Op Amp......Page 259
Lesson 58 The Electret Microphone......Page 262
Lesson 59 Using the Speaker as a Microphone......Page 264
Lesson 60 Introducing Transformers and Putting It All Together......Page 266
18 Prototype and Design: Patience Has Its Rewards......Page 271
Lesson 61 Systems and Subsystems......Page 272
Lesson 62 Switching to the Two-Way Door Phone......Page 276
Lesson 63 Design and Applications: Exploring the Possibilities......Page 279
Lesson 64 Assembling the Project......Page 283
Part Five: Appendices......Page 285
Potentiometers......Page 287
Transformers......Page 288
Reading Values......Page 289
Tolerance: Quality and Accuracy of Capacitors......Page 290
Related Animations......Page 293
B......Page 295
C......Page 296
D......Page 297
F......Page 298
L......Page 299
O......Page 300
P......Page 301
S......Page 302
V......Page 303
Z......Page 304
E: Make Your Own Printed Circuit Boards......Page 305
C......Page 311
E......Page 312
L......Page 313
P......Page 314
S......Page 315
V......Page 316
Z......Page 317