Record details

• ISBN: 9781449344047
• ISBN: 1449344046
• Physical Description: xxxii, 357 pages : illustrations (chiefly colored) ; 25 cm
• Edition: First Edition.
• Publisher: Sebastopol, Calif. : Maker Media, Inc., 2014.
• Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:

Sequel to: Make: electronics.

"Make:makezine.com"--P. 4 of cover.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (page 325) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Experiment 1: Sticky Resistance: A Glue-Based Amplifier -- What’s Happening -- Symbology -- Warning: Nonstandard Leads -- Background: Conductors and Insulators -- Make Even More -- Experiment 2: Getting Some Numbers: Requirements -- Transistor Behavior -- Warning: Meter at Risk! -- Abbreviations and Datasheets -- What About the Voltage? -- Quick Facts About Voltage -- Make Even More: Old-School Metering -- Quick Facts About Transistors -- Answers to Voltage Divider Examples -- Experiment 3: From Light to Sound: Photosensitive Audio Pitch -- Experiment 4: Measuring Light: Using Phototransistors -- Quick Facts About Phototransistors -- Background: Photons and Electrons -- Quick Facts About the 555 -- Quick Facts About CMOS Versus Bipolar -- Experiment 5: That Whooping Sound: Make Even More -- Experiment 6: Easy On, Easy Off: Making Comparisons -- Quick Facts About Comparators -- Feedback -- Hysteresis -- The Symbol -- Quick Facts About Plus and Minus -- The Output -- More Quick Facts About Comparators -- Inside the Chip -- The Circuit Redrawn -- Warning: Inverted Comparators -- Comparisons with a Microcontroller -- Make Even More: A Laser-Based Security System -- Experiment 7: It’s Chronophotonic!: Warning: Avoid Dangerous Voltage -- The Circuit Basics -- Step Two -- Circuit Testing -- Relay Details -- The Coupling Capacitor -- Cracking a Clock -- Warning: No AC-Powered Clocks! -- Looking Inside -- Clock Voltage -- How It Beeps -- Using the Beeps -- Hooking Up the Clock -- How It Ought to Work -- Testing -- Connecting Relay to Lamp -- Warning: AC Precautions -- Make Even More -- What’s Next? -- Experiment 8: Adventures in Audio: Amping Up -- Introducing the Electret -- Can You Hear Me? -- Background: Microphone Miscellany -- Ups and Downs of Sound -- Experiment 9: From Millivolts to Volts: Putting a Cap on It -- Introducing the Op-Amp -- What’s the Difference? -- A Perfect Pair -- Measuring the Output -- Experiment 10: From Sound to Light: An LED-Transistor Combination.

Experiment 11: The Need for Negativity: Messing with Measurement -- DC Amplification -- The Ins and Outs of Amplification -- Electronic Ritalin -- Gain -- Background: Negative Origins -- Pushing the Limits -- No Pain, No Gain! -- Phase 1: Output Voltages -- Phase 2: Input Voltages -- Phase 3: Graphing It -- Phase 4: The Gain -- Is It Right? -- Splitting the Difference -- The Basics -- Basic with No Split -- Quick Facts About Op-Amps -- Experiment 12: A Functional Amplifier: Introducing the 386 Chip -- The Amplification Circuit -- Troubleshooting the Amplifier -- Experiment 13: No Loud Speaking!: Background: The Widlar Story -- Step by Step -- Sensing -- Will It Really Work? -- Background: Voltage Translation -- Noise Protest, Continued -- Power Problems -- Fail? -- Just One More Little Thing -- Experiment 14: A Successful Protest: Timing Is Everything -- Revision Summary -- The Noise Test -- Make Even More -- Can You Do It with a Microcontroller? -- What’s Next? -- Experiment 15: It’s All So Logical!: Experiment 15: Telepathy Test: Background: ESP -- The Setup -- Quick Facts About Logic Chips -- ESP Logic -- Building It -- Making It Better -- Experiment 16: Enhanced ESP: Are You Ready? -- Cheating Revealed -- Failure Indicated -- Conflicts -- The Untangling -- Translating the Chart -- Optimizing -- Building It -- Details -- The Digital Difference -- Making It Even Better -- Not So Simple? -- Could We Use a Microcontroller? -- Experiment 17: Let’s Rock!: Background: Probability -- Background: Game Theory -- The Logic -- Who’s On? -- Who’s Cheating? -- Background: Gate Arrays -- Experiment 18: Time to Switch: Background: An XNOR Made from Light Switches -- Back to the Rock -- Showing Which Button -- Cheat Proofing -- Fit to Be Tied -- Wiring It -- Cheat-Proofed Wiring -- Experiment 19: Decoding Telepathy: Decoder Testing -- Remembering Binary -- Boarding It -- Decoder Pinouts -- Experiment 20: Decoding Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Logic -- The Specification -- An Unobtainable Or -- Saved by NOR -- Boarding the Simplified Scheme -- Make Even More – Undecoding.

Experiment 21: The Hot Slot: Muxing It -- Jumping and Roaming -- Quick Facts About Muxes -- Mux Pinouts -- Mux Applications -- Analog Versus Digital Mux -- Quick Facts About Mux Variants -- Game Design -- Slot Counting -- Circuit Design -- Slot Design -- Hot Slot Testing -- Who Wins? -- The Payoff -- Understanding the Odds -- Background: Alternative Game Arrays -- And a Microcontroller? -- Experiment 22: Logically Audible: Background: Neither Here nor Theremin -- Logical Audio -- Audible XOR -- All Mixed Up -- Experiment 23: A Puzzling Project: Background: The British King of Puzzles -- Moving Counters -- The Logical Grid -- Using Logic -- Switching Ovid -- Making Even More -- Answer to the Puzzle -- Experiment 24: Adding It Up: The Five Rules of Binary -- From Bits to States -- Background: The NAND Alternative -- Your Own Little Adder -- Breadboard Addition -- Experiment 25: Enhancing Your Adder: Return of the Decoder -- DIPping In -- Introducing an Encoder -- Other Encoder Features -- Background: The Power of Binary -- Background: Encode Your Own -- Make Even More: Other Input Options -- Can We Switch It?Make Even More: Switched Binary Adder -- Making a Table -- Switch Specification -- Make Even More: Other Possibilities -- Experiment 26: Running Rings: Ring Demo -- Warning: Timer Incompatibilities -- Annoying Pin Sequence -- Quick Facts About Headers -- Quick Facts About Ring Counters -- Making a Game of It -- Additional Features -- Playability -- Make Even More -- And a Microcontroller? -- Experiment 27: Shifting Bits: No Bouncing! -- Specifics -- A Bit-Shifting Demo -- Quick Facts About Shift Registers -- Pinouts -- Background: Bit Streams -- Modern Applications -- Experiment 28: The Ching Thing: Hexagrams -- The Display -- The Straight and Yarrow Path -- The Numbers -- Random Sampling -- The Look and Feel -- The Details -- Bars or LEDs -- Boarding the Ching Thing -- Assembly and Testing -- Ching Usage -- Packaging -- Experiment 29: Common Sensors: The Little Magnetic Switch -- Reed Test -- How It Works -- Level Sensor -- Fuel Gauge -- Quick Facts About Reed Switches -- Easy Substitution -- Installing a Reed Switch -- Background: Magnetic Polarity -- Magnetic Types and Sources -- Magnetic Shapes -- Make Even More: Eddy Currents -- Warning: Magnetic Hazards.

Experiment 30: Hidden Detectors: Hall Test -- Applications -- Quick Facts About Hall Sensors -- Hall Types -- Sensor Ideas -- Make Even More: Miniature Roll-the-Ball Game -- Plastic Bending -- Rolling-Ball Electronics -- Experiment 31: Electronic Optics: Active Light Sensors -- Warning: Slow Sensor Death! -- The Numbers -- Infrared Sensor Test -- Infrared LED Test -- Phototransistor Test -- Logic Test -- Options -- Quick Facts About Transmissive Optical Sensors -- Better Slots -- Proof of Concept -- The Schematic -- The Breadboard -- The Slot Box -- Experiment 32: Enhancing Ovid: The Logic Option -- Switching It Around -- Magnetic Issues -- Make Even More: Microcontrolling It -- 33: Defining a Rotational Encoder: Specification -- The Pulse Train -- Warning: Mediocre Encoders -- Inside the Encoder -- Encoder Usage -- It Can Be Random -- Rotational Decider -- Rotational Equivocator -- Seriously Random -- Experiment 34: Ambient Sensing: One Timer Controlling Another -- Temperature Control -- Random Factors -- Automating the Randomizing Circuit -- Background: Lower Counting -- Speed Adjustment -- Quick Facts About Thermistors -- Making a Thermistor More Random -- Humidity Sensor -- Humidity Control -- Accelerometer -- Touch Sensor -- Empirical Issues -- How Random Is Random? -- Experiment 35: The LFSR: -- Getting to Know Your LFSR -- Quick Facts About a LFSR -- Bit-Shifting in Closeup -- The Problem with Zeroes -- The Need to Be Nonrepeating -- Warning: XNOR Idiosyncracies -- Running the Test -- Ones and Zeroes -- The Problem of Weighting -- Skipping 254 -- Sharing the Clock Input -- Any Other Options? -- Seeding -- Make Even More: Other Games and Other Numbers -- Make Even More: Microcontroller Randomicity -- Experiment 36: The One-Person Paranormal Paradigm: The Last Logic Diagrams -- Looking at Part 2 -- Input Logic -- The Ready Signal -- Random Seeding -- Two More XORs -- Timing is Everything -- Making Every Guess Count -- Schematic Part 2 -- Testing the Tester -- How Unlikely Is ESP? -- Powers of the Triangle -- John Walker’s Probabilities.

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