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# Make: Electronics: Learning by Discovery: A hands-on primer for the new electronics enthusiast

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Review: Simple but amazing starting point - If you're just getting started this is a perfect starting point. It gives you everything you need. It is simple and as I moved on to more complicated things I quickly needed more material but I would not have reached this point without this book. I'm glad I came across this and still keep it with me.
Review: Great book - but exp 17 feels half-baked - Excellent book. I took electronics in high school but wanted a refresher - and overall wish I'd listened better. :-) Platt's approach and writing style are excellent. There are a couple mistakes in the book so it is worthwhile to check out the Errata on the O'Reilly web page for the book. My only criticism is that Experiment 17 (Intrusion Alarm), while good practice and theory, is actually quite a lot of effort for a very underwhelming result. It's left to the reader to integrate a tone circuit - on a separate breadboard. You can use something like the single 555 tone in experiment 16 or a transistor version such as experiment 11. The information is all in the book to do this, but there's a bit of a handwave on this in experiment 17. ("Add audio output here") And even having done that, you are totally on your own for sensors or stand-ins for the sensors. The kits for the book don't include any reed sensors. And if you purchased the parts kits, you only have one 555 beyond the three needed for exp 17 and just a single breadboard. Additionally, to see this project all the way through, you need at least a stripboard style perf board - again, not included in the kits. (I realize the author doesn't create the kits, but he mentions that these optional parts won't be included so it wasn't an unknown.) I mean, you don't HAVE to solder it. And you can use push buttons to stand in for sensors, and you can figure out the audio alarm part, possibly using the lower part of the perf board...but this project stands out as sort of the least complete and ready to go end-to-end project in the book. To be honest, even if he'd said "I'm leaving out a few details that you should be able to figure out at this point" (which is true) would make it "fit" more in the spirit of the book. To be fair to this project, I do appreciate the sort of conversational "working it out" process that we see, as if we are just in the room with Platt as he works through it. That's great stuff.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #7,983 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in Circuit Design #1 in Robotics (Books) #3 in Robotics & Automation (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (833) |
| Dimensions  | 8 x 0.68 x 9.75 inches |
| Edition  | 3rd |
| ISBN-10  | 1680456873 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1680456875 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Part of series  | Make |
| Print length  | 325 pages |
| Publication date  | October 26, 2021 |
| Publisher  | Make Community, LLC |
| Reading age  | 9 - 17 years |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Simple but amazing starting point
*by K***R on December 3, 2025*

If you're just getting started this is a perfect starting point. It gives you everything you need. It is simple and as I moved on to more complicated things I quickly needed more material but I would not have reached this point without this book. I'm glad I came across this and still keep it with me.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book - but exp 17 feels half-baked
*by J***N on July 31, 2025*

Excellent book. I took electronics in high school but wanted a refresher - and overall wish I'd listened better. :-) Platt's approach and writing style are excellent. There are a couple mistakes in the book so it is worthwhile to check out the Errata on the O'Reilly web page for the book. My only criticism is that Experiment 17 (Intrusion Alarm), while good practice and theory, is actually quite a lot of effort for a very underwhelming result. It's left to the reader to integrate a tone circuit - on a separate breadboard. You can use something like the single 555 tone in experiment 16 or a transistor version such as experiment 11. The information is all in the book to do this, but there's a bit of a handwave on this in experiment 17. ("Add audio output here") And even having done that, you are totally on your own for sensors or stand-ins for the sensors. The kits for the book don't include any reed sensors. And if you purchased the parts kits, you only have one 555 beyond the three needed for exp 17 and just a single breadboard. Additionally, to see this project all the way through, you need at least a stripboard style perf board - again, not included in the kits. (I realize the author doesn't create the kits, but he mentions that these optional parts won't be included so it wasn't an unknown.) I mean, you don't HAVE to solder it. And you can use push buttons to stand in for sensors, and you can figure out the audio alarm part, possibly using the lower part of the perf board...but this project stands out as sort of the least complete and ready to go end-to-end project in the book. To be honest, even if he'd said "I'm leaving out a few details that you should be able to figure out at this point" (which is true) would make it "fit" more in the spirit of the book. To be fair to this project, I do appreciate the sort of conversational "working it out" process that we see, as if we are just in the room with Platt as he works through it. That's great stuff.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for Beginners Who Know Nothing About Electronics
*by M***1 on October 20, 2025*

I'm new to hobby electronics and this book is great for beginners. Very easy to understand. Each chapter explains how each electronic component works and then has an experiment to actually see how it works. It shows you how to build each circuit using an easy to understand wiring illustration along with a schematic so you learn how to read and understand schematics. The book also has a list of what you need for each experiment along with a list of suppliers to purchase your components from. This book reminds me of a text book you may see in a basic electronics lab course in school.

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