Master digital electronics from the inside out!

Here’s the perfect tool for electronics hobbyists and students¿even complete beginners–who want to understand digital logic and build their own low-cost logic circuits. You get more than 20 projects for designing, constructing, and interfacing easy-to-do TTL (Transistor-Transistor Logic) circuits. This guidebook provides everything from directions for setting up your own digital electronics lab to explanations of needed math and basic electronics. Construct your own simple 8-bit computer and learn how computers really work. Find tips for making circuits that switch, count, time, measure, control, combine input and output, switch-bounce, “think,” and much more. Get guidance on creating, prototyping, and debugging sophisticated applications of your own design. Useful tables, data and formulas, and demonstrations of project assembly techniques, such as wrapping and soldering, add to the hands-on support, along with the reusable printed circuit board included with the text.

5 Responses to “Digital Electronics Guidebook: With Projects!”

1. GK says:

   February 8, 2009 at 12:00 am

   The content of the book is good, and the included PCBs will be useful, but you MUST know enough about electronics to detect and correct the numerous errors in the wiring diagrams, etc.

   The text is a little disorganized and key points and concepts are not as clear as they could be, but the information is good. This is NOT a book for complete beginners. If you’re new to electronics, try a NerdKit instead.

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2. flamenko says:

   January 13, 2006 at 12:00 am

   O.K., the idea behind this book is very good, but it is unrealised idea. I agree with a reader below who said this book is an error galore (I am not reffering to grammar errors but more importantly technical errors). Imageine if we tried to build space shuttle with the same number of errors as in this book (or any other Predko’s book). Would it lift off? Yeah right! I was unable to make anything work from his books and I own 2 books. It is so confusing and not worth the money. If you are able to make sence of drunk man talking then go ahead and buy his books, otherwise stay away.

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3. Anonymous says:

   October 17, 2003 at 12:00 am

   This book is fantastic. The two included PCBs were a joy to build and are very helpful when doing lab experiments. This book would appeal to an absolute electronics beginner as well as an expert. The projects are fun and very educational. Two thumbs up!

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4. Scott Derrick says:

   May 9, 2003 at 12:00 am

   I think the idea behind this book is fantastic and if there wern’t so many typos and mistakes in the diagrams and project schematics it would be a 5 star book.

   The ground and power bus is mislabeld in almost every project. Some of the projects won’t run without fixing the bugs in the diagrams.

   If there is a second edition, hopefully these issues will be resolved.

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5. Roland F. Anderson says:

   January 23, 2003 at 12:00 am

   This is an excellent book for neophytes like me. Unfortunately, it is marred by a surprisingly large number of typos, like many of Mr. Predko’s books.

   Part of this is because he reuses large blocks of text in his many publications w/o really matching up figures with text, etc. He doesn’t always match numbers on his printed circuit boards with the text. Perhaps these errors sneak in between editions. Most of these are so obvious there is no problem making out what he meant. Still, I worry that there are typos which I don’t recognize.

   The printed circuit boards are excellent with plated through holes. Even an inexperienced solderer like me can do a neat job easily and quickly.

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