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Practical Electronics for Inventors

by Paul Scherz

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Spark your creativity and gain the electronics skills required to transform your innovative ideas into functioning gadgets. This hands-on, updated guide outlines electrical principles and provides thorough, easy-to-follow instructions, schematics, and illustrations. Find out how to select components, safely assemble circuits, perform error tests, and build plug-and-play prototypes.

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Languages: English
Media: Paper, Ebook
ISBNs: 8
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Published: 2000
Genres: Technology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature
DDC/MDS: 621.381
LCC: TK7816 .S347

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