[sdiy] electronics book

[charlie wallace]

I've found his mini notebooks are very good for beginners to not feel
intimidated, we use them to teach at our hackerspace, I'll check out
the Ray Wilson ones though.

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> http://www.forrestmims.org/publications.html
>
> I bought the Radio Shack Electronic Learning Lab about six years ago to get
> myself started in electronics.  I must say that I found it pretty useless.
> It comes with a guide book written by Forrest Mims, which didn't explain
> anything.  Sure, I knew which wire to stick in which hole, but I didn't know
> why.
>
> I'm afraid that there really is no shortcut to learning this stuff other
> than trying stuff out, and slowly accumulating knowledge as you go.  You're
> not going to learn it all from one book.  Build a few circuits, try
> designing something simple, and learn from your mistakes.  That's pretty
> much always been the way it is.  Eventually you will find that you
> understand more and more of what is in the books, and what the gurus around
> here are talking to each other about.
>
> I personally found Ray Wilson's circuit write-ups at Music From Outer Space
> (.com) to be far more enlightening than anything in a Forrest Mims book.  If
> you want to design synth circuits, start there.
>