Circuitbuilding Do-It-Yourself For Dummies 1st Edition

Great book. Covers many topics. Crammed full of useful basic information and clear large pictures.I do basic electronics work from time to time but after reading this book I realized there were so many things I was doing wrong or inefficient!

This book is excellent to understand about circuit building. Perfectly, for anyone want involve with electronics. Since Heathkit was gone from business and struggle to enjoy hobby with electronics would be good with this book.

This has a lot of information you will need on you path through your electronics hobby. A very good reference book. I keep it on my workbench all the time.

I was looking for a book so I can learn how to build a circuit to light my sci-fi models. This book fits the bill. It explains everything in clear and simple manner for someone who has not taken any circuit building courses. looking forward to starting soon.

The black and white pictures are terrible, and distort most of the wiring examples. Why do that? Many of the circuit descriptions are either too vague, or just not technical enough to figure out on your own. Try the digital timer project, and you'll see what I mean. And, would it be too much to ask to have the components in the schematics match the wiring examples? Compare the digital timer schematic with the wiring example (pages 47 & 54). There a multiple differences.The book will give you ideas. And, if you're not a total beginner, you can use it for inspiration. There definitely needs to be a new edition of this book.For the new edition, use color pictures, better descriptions, and I would lock in breadboard sizes, so the author can use exact numbers on pins, jumpers, and components in the how-to. Also, make sure the schematic components match the wiring illustrations. I would drop all the making connectors; this book is about circuit building (not page after page of connectors)---include many more circuits.

love it

God I love this book. I have been repairing computers for over thirty years but there's still a lot I have to look up or run reference on from time to time and this one book somehow seems to cover most of it. Not sure what I would do without it.

Awesome book, I couldn't put it down. This is the only for dummies book I've read cover to cover.