Make: More Electronics

An excellent follow-on to Make: Electronics! I've tried to learn electronics a number of times over the years, and each time I made it a little farther before bogging down. Make Electronics was my latest attempt, and this time I think I'm getting it! The explanations are clear, the order of subjects makes perfect sense, only as much theory and math as are absolutely required are used, and the pictures and diagrams are clearly laid out with the reasons why specific symbols, colors, etc. were selected are explained. Charles Platt clearly is a master of the subject, and is very capable of explaining the subject material. Based on my prior attempts, about half of what was in Make: Electronics was review for me, but Make: More Electronics is mostly new, and mostly things that I just didn't get in the past, but I'm understanding it now due to the same clear, well ordered explanations as in the prior book. This one picks up where Make: Electronics left off, and continues into more complex areas, such as AC circuits and OpAmps, with some fun and interesting projects. The explanations of how to approach a design are especially useful...you can't just copy other's designs forever! If you want to learn electronics, you won't go wrong with Make: Electronics, followed by Make: More Electronics. The set of three parts encyclopedias that Mr. Platt has also published are well worth a look as well. These aren't tutorials, like Make: Electronics and Make: More Electronics, but they aren't simple catalogs of parts either...they go into the theory, variations, uses, and cautions for a host of electronics parts from transformers, to transistors, and connectors. Based on my reading of these books, I'd certainly want to take a look at anything else Mr. Platt produces!

Outstanding! Easy read! Best. Book I’ve found. On the subject!

Great series taught me a lot. Recommended for all ages

I was hoping for a more advanced book with more advanced circuity. I was not sure what to expect and took a chance on the book. I have a degree in electronics, and alot of real world experience working on things and building my own circuits and devices, so from my perspective it did not offer me what I was looking for out of the book. But if you are new and just starting to learn or teach yourself electronics, this is a very good book.Something to be said about a brick and motor bookstore where you can sit down and look it over closely before deciding to buy it. I will almost never return any items I buy from Amazon, and this book will be added to my library.

This book is a fantastic follow up to the original and more beginner friendly "Make: Electronics". This new book is more complicated and challenging in JUST the right ways. You are led to think on your own and make mistakes and discover things, without the "figuring out" ever becoming tedious. The book is no longer spoon feeding you like the original, it's a beast. The new experiments are fun and I've built long term versions of several of them and I feel like I'm learning more with every new chapter. But it's fun learning, I look forward to it. If you finished the first book and are looking for your next challenge, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG here. The Caveat: Unlike for the first book, there are no pre-made kits for this book, so you are on your own in stocking up with parts and materials. The materials list leaves something to be desired. My pet peeve is the "4pdt switch". There are half a dozen formats of this thing, and if you buy the first one you find (like I did), its money down the drain. I would suggest to the author to add pictures of the parts to an appendix, or a link to a section of his website which keeps the parts current. Even if this can not be added to the book right now, any reader writing in about parts could be directed to an online site of current parts. Other than that caveat, I will buy any book Mr. Platt writes (I actually have them all so far) and I wish he would come up with a third installment of this series. I've learned a lot and its all kinds of fun and just the right amount of challenging. GET THE BOOK!

This is by far the best book for anyone getting into electronics. The explanations were easy to understand and best of all the experiments were in alignment with the reading material.

This is a great instructional book, very well written. It teaches pretty solid foundation of the field of electronics. It's also written in a clear and simple and engaging style which will capture the curiosity of a teenager. However it is NOT a beginner book. It assumes the reader already has a decent understanding of the field of electronics. For a beginner, I'd recommend the previous book by the same author : "Make: Electronics"

Mr Platt does a wonderful job just as he did in his first book make Electronics with this awesome follow-up book to once again take a complex topic such as Electronics make it understandable and help cement the concepts by taking them from concept to reality through the exercises