SV: SV: [sdiy] A book about analogue synthesizer circuits?

[Thomas Kahn]

Magnus D:
> Please find a PDF attached for your eyes only. It's not much, 
> but it is something. I did have more, but lost it in a crash. 
> Anyway, if people like Thomas pester me with questions and 
> ask me to extend on this or that topic I can certainly extend it.

The book that I have in mind has a rather different structure though. It
starts in the "wrong end" so to speak. Most books have a bottom-up
structure where you begin with basic theory in electronics, descriptions
of the various type of components and their properties etc. 

My suggestion is that you do it the other way around: top-down. Select a
number of _complete_ projects with schematics, card-layouts, parts lists
and building instructions. After that you start explaining the different
solutions that are a part of the circuit the reader has just built (or
at least read about). After that you go even deeper describing how the
properties of the different components are utilized and how they work
together. After that you dig into the theory with formulas etc.

As I see it there are two major reasons for doing it this way:

1) I think it appeals to people that are into DIY electronics. First get
your hands dirty, listen and toy around with the thing you have just
built. This in turn will hopefully create a deeper curiosity for the
circuit and the theroy behind it and there you have the next step in the
book waiting to be read.

2) It's easier for people like me to read and understand. If I see the
circuit in action first I can then start learning more about what makes
it tick. Or, if I'm not at all interested in the theory I can just build
the projects and skip the theory. This makes the book more interesting
to a wider audience; an audience that would get bored and set the book
aside if they first had to plow through 100 pages with theory.

Of course I can't speak for the entire DIY community, so take this
suggestion as my personal point of view regarding how a book should be
structured. Me and Magnus have talked a little about why people are into
DIY electronics and the reasons seem as many as there are DIY:ers. Some
get a kick out of drawing schematics but get bored when it's time to
realize them, others jump head first into the soldering and don't care
much for the theory behind the circuit. 

/Thomas