Recommended Electronics Books

Photo gallery links:

• VOTC Gallery - Pictures of the evolution electronic components from the "The Voice of the Crystal" book.
• IOA Gallery 1 / IOA Gallery 2 - Pictures of the evolution electronic components from the "Instruments of Amplification" book.
• More about the Books.
  

These books are available to lend from the BAEC Lending Library. For more detail and to order goto the Books for Sale Section.

[Posted Jun06] Motorola Voltage Regulator Handbook. For Power Supply Regulators. Popular ones include: LM7805 (5V), LM7812 (12V), and LM317.
"A good data book. Check out the manufacturers web sites also. They have LOADS of information. Do you need Low Drop Out voltage regulators? That's another whole number set. How about Switching regulators?? Negative regulators? Again, it depends on your application."
Posted by Obiwan on Thursday, 15 June, 2006 on the EPE Chatzone.

Just click on the link to Amazon below, click on the Books TAB, then type in the Name and Author. Second hand copies are very cheap. Also try Hodder Education.

• £9.99 (GBP) + £1.99 (GBP) sourcing free: Adventures with Electronics by Tom Duncan - ISBN: 0 7195 3554 9 - 1978 - 58 Pages. Build simple circuits using S-Dec 70 hole plugboard.
  Introduction describes what tools you will require, a description of components types with pictures, resistor colour codes. Circuits include three types of Radio, Parking Light, Flashing Lamp, Electronic Organ, Electronic Metronome, Wailing Siren, Electronic Timer, Computer Counter, and a Fire Alarm. Finishes with sections descripting How Radio Works, and on Testing Transistors. Plus a parts list. Good introduction to Basic Electronics.

  

• £5 (GBP): Adventures with Microelectronics by Tom Duncan - ISBN: 0 7195 3671 5 - 15th November 1979 - 64 Pages. Many simple Dual 5 x 47-Row Plugboard Circuits with Positive and Negative Power Supply Rows also. Driven by a PP3 9v battery, and constructed on solder free breadboard (no soldering required). Includes a classic Traffic Lights circuit: RED-AMBER-GREEN LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes), and CMOS 4008 4-bit binary full adder.
  Introduction describes component types (including digital IC chips) with pictures, and resistor colour codes. All IC's are CMOS. Other circuits include Electronic Dice, Reaction Timer, Pulsed Flashing Lamp, MW/LW Radio Receiver, Two-Octave Organ, Warbling-Wailing Siren, Two-Tone Door Bell, and Pulsed Bleeper. A little more advanced but great fun and very educational. I actually used my Hornby Railway Controller to act as a power supply, and kept my components in a Shoebox. Five Stars *****

• £9.99 (GBP): Adventures with Digital Electronics by Tom Duncan - ISBN: 0 7195 3943 9 - 22nd July 1982 - 64 Pages. Many simple Dual 5 x 47-Row Plugboard Circuits with Positive and Negative Power Supply Rows also. Driven by a PP3 9v battery, and constructed on solder free breadboard (no soldering required).
  Introduction has the following sections: About Digital Electronics, Logic Gates (NOT, NAND, AND, NOR, and OR), Multivibrators including the CMOS 4047 (which can be used as a clock), Flip-flops, Counters, Shift Registers, Memories, Arithmetic Circuits (adders), Code Convertors, Display Drivers including the CMOS 4511 BCD to 7-segment [LED] display driver. Then goes on to describe how to build a circuit with components and pictures.
  Circuits are as follows: Two-Way Traffic Lights I & II, Pedestrian Crossing Signals, Electronic Adder, Electronic Fruit Machine, Computer Space Invaders, Electronic Shooting Gallery, and Quiz-Game Swtiches. No doubt all these circuits could be programmed using one PIC Microcontroller nowadays. But building them using MSI (medium scale integration) IC's teaches you how the circuits and digital logic works. A bit advanced but still a lot of fun. Four Stars ****

• Master IC Cookbook - Published: 1980 (first), May 1991. 476 Pages. Details the most popular CMOS (normal and exotic) and TTL Logic, andLinear Chips (amplifiers, regulators and a few others). With Pinouts and Descriptions. A Digital Electronics Bible! A bargain only £5 including P&P. You can look up most of this information on the internet or electronic component suppliers manuals but this is easier to reference. The CMOS 4047 for example has very little about it on the internet. Four Stars ****

Giorgio de Prez an Italian BAEC member recommends the following books:

• PICmicro® Microcontroller Pocket Reference by Mike Predko, McGraw-Hill
  http://www.myke.com/pic-pckt.htm (over 700 pages).
  Available from Amazon for £14.51. Click here to order.
  
• Programming and Customizing PICmicro® Microcontrollers (over 1,200 pages) by Mike Predko
  http://www.myke.com/pic-book.htm.

[Still available Jun06] Eric Edwards E-mail: eric@ericedwards.co.uk ; eroc@eddy11.fsnet.co.uk - a BAEC member has published and Authored the following Books:

• A PIC book. It includes a CD full of data, source codes, HEX codes and other info. GBP 23.44 inc. VAT.
  
• The following 3 books for GBP 4.99 each [plus GBP 1 P&P] from eBay on-line Book seller, by Eric Edwards:
  Electronics Book - PICBASIC Projects Book - Radio Book1 README.
  
• PLUS an Electronic book that he has produced on a CD-ROM for GPB 4.99 plus GPB 1 P&P. "LEARN ELECTRONICS THE FUN WAY. A 'PRACTICAL' ELECTRONICS BOOK WITH OVER 420 PAGES ON A CD-ROM. A FUN WAY OF LEARNING BY DOING." For more information goto the Books for Sale Section.
  
• It is available in the UK from:
  Crownhill Associates Ltd, 32 Broad Street, ELY, Cambridge, CB7 4PW.
  Tel 01353 666709. Also at www.crownhill.co.uk