How to Build and Use Electronic Devices Without Frustration, Panic, Mountains of Money, or an Engineering Degree Review

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(More customer reviews)If you'd like to build simple yet effective circuits, this is the book to get. It assumes you don't know much about electrical engineering and steers you through the principles of designing with op amps. It teaches by presenting "recipe" circuits and discussing why they are put together the way they are, how they can be adjusted and modified, and what pitfalls to expect. The author expects you to read the book, soldering iron in hand.
Table of Contents:
1. A Little Circuit Theory and an Instrument or Two
2. The Op-Amp and How to Make It Work for You
3. Op-Amp Applications for Fun and Profit
4. Biomedical Applications of Op-Amp Circuits
5. The Op-Amp as Analog Computer
6. Op-Amp Problems and How to Fix Them
7. Discrete Devices (If You Must Use Them)
8. Conclusions
Example projects include band-pass filters, phase-shift oscillators, function generators, rigs for measuring skin resistance, radio telemetry and a setup for recording to a cassette recorder. The chapter on biomedical applications includes information on EEG and EKG systems. It considers the use of isolation amplifiers.
The book is sprinkled with cartoons. They're not quite John Callahan, but they produce a chuckle or two. Page 1 is the only published source I've ever seen for the resistor color code mneumonic "Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly."

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