New Book Teardown #3: Learning The Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course (2016) | In The Lab

Posted on 2024-04-01 [Monday] by Jay Jay

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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/

If you want to pre-order a new version you can do so here:
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1009535188
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1009535188
AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1009535188

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The Brain User’s Handbook: A Neuroscience-inspired Guide to Peace of Mind

Posted on 2024-03-30 [Saturday] by Jay Jay

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:

Propagation of electricity

Posted on 2024-01-11 [Thursday] by Jay Jay

Thanks to Craig for referring me to Brian Haidet’s AlphaPhoenix channel.

I found the following four videos on the AlphaPhoenix channel explaining various aspects of the propagation of electricity, which goes some way to explaining how the high impedance headphone might work in my 10in1 2/10 project.

While watching the videos I discovered that Brian’s oscilloscope is a Siglent SDS1104X-E (100 MHz) Oscilloscope, a pretty nice looking bit of kit!

Final round of Silicon Chip books

Posted on 2023-12-29 [Friday] by Jay Jay

My good friend Dubz shouted me another round of Silicon Chip books as can be seen here. I now own all the books which have been marked and I’ve pretty much purchased everything that was left.

Timeline of human evolution

Posted on 2023-11-29 [Wednesday] by Jay Jay

I found myself over here today: Timeline of human evolution. It’s striking how recent most of the things we take for normal are, and how different things used to be. I wonder what our future is?

How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet

Posted on 2023-08-18 [Friday] by Jay Jay

Here’s a fun essay from Douglas Adams: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet. He says that attitudes toward technology go like this:

everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.