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New Book Teardown #3: Learning The Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course (2016) | In The Lab
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Silly Job Title: Master Planner
This video is part of the New Book Teardown feature of my video blog.
In this video I take a look at Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course by Thomas C. Hayes and Paul Horowitz published in 2016. The book has 1,140 pages and is a companion to The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition.
Some notes about things of interest we noticed in the book:
- Xilinx was an American technology and semiconductor company, now owned by AMD
- the Ebers–Moll model is useful for modelling Bipolar junction transistors
- Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history
- Wien’s bridge is used for precision measurement of capacitance in terms of resistance and frequency
- Wilson current mirror is a three-terminal circuit that accepts an input current at the input terminal and provides a “mirrored” current source or sink output at the output terminal
- a Bessel filter is a type of analog linear filter named in reference to Friedrich Bessel who developed the mathematical theory
- the video about the 6502 I watched recently is: The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation!
- the Cypress PSoC is a family of microcontroller integrated circuits by Cypress Semiconductor
- octopart.com
- learningtheartofelectronics.com
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Update Jan 2025: Hi there. You might be interested to know that the second edition of this book is due to ship in March 2025! Can’t wait! https://learningtheartofelectronics.com/
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The Brain User’s Handbook: A Neuroscience-inspired Guide to Peace of Mind
I am reading The Brain User’s Handbook: A Neuroscience-inspired Guide to Peace of Mind which has this awesome image I want to share:
Why is the audio speed so weird?
Over here one of my viewers asked “Why is the audio speed so weird?” The answer is that I was speeding up the video in an attempt to make the content more “lively” and so viewers could get through 6 minutes worth of content in only 4 minutes. However I have come to understand that others don’t think this is a good idea, so I have canceled the various videos I had queued for release, and I will remake them without the speed ups. I won’t be redoing any of the videos I have already released though, so that history will stand. :)
Groove Armada – Superstylin’ (Live at Brixton)
Trolley Problem
John’s lab
As part of today’s updating of my Patreon page and my YouTube branding I took new photos of the lab, you can see them over here: https://www.jj5.net/lab/
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Anime Music Video NIN The Becoming Lain, Akira & Ghost In The Shell
This is awesome: Anime Music Video NIN The Becoming Lain, Akira & Ghost In The Shell.
It’s a mashup of old school anime classics with Nine Inch Nails soundtrack.
Circle that presses them
There’s a great quote from Carlos Castaneda in Journey to Ixtlan: “A warrior proceeds strategically. If one wants to stop our fellow men one must always be outside the circle that presses them. That way one can always direct the pressure.”