Analog Meters for Learning the Art of Electronics

Posted on 2025-02-22 [Saturday] by Jay Jay

I was flipping through my copy of Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course (I have the first edition, this second edition comes out in Australia on 3 April 2025, I have a copy on pre-order, I think it’s already available in the USA) and I noticed that some analog meters are used in the first lab course.

So in preparation for doing that I purchased some analog meters, being these:

DC Ampere Meter 91C4 Ammeter 1/2/3/5/10/20/30/50/100/200 A V Voltmeter Analog Panel Meter Mechanical Pointer 91C4 Ammeter (5V, 10V, 15V)
91C4 Class Ampere Analog Panel Meter Ammeter 2.5 Accuracy DC 50uA 100uA 200uA 300uA 500uA High Quality (100uA)
91C4- mA DC Pointer type milliammeter 1mA 5mA 10mA 50mA 100mA 200mA 300mA 500mA Analog Mechanics Plate table Ammeter (1mA, 10mA, 100mA)
91C4 Ammeter DC Analog 1A 2A 3A 5A 10A 20A 30A 50A 100A 200A 300A 500A Panel Mechanical Pointer Type Amper Meter Current Meter (1A)

I am planning to start working through these projects on my YouTube channel @InTheLabWithJayJay at a rate of one project every 28 days starting April 1st. April 1st, being April Fools’ Day, is of course the traditional date for launching IT projects and it is also the one year anniversary of my video (which happens to be my most popular YouTube video by a large margin): New Book Teardown #3: Learning The Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course (2016) | In The Lab.

Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course 2ed

Posted on 2025-01-20 [Monday] by Jay Jay

I have been sad for some time that Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course is out of print. Little did I know, they have been working on a second edition! The revised edition is due out in March 2025. Excellent news! I don’t usually pre-order books, but I will pre-order my copy of Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course 2ed. There’s more info on the book’s website: learningtheartofelectronics.com.

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

This post is part of my video blog and you can find more information about this video on this show’s homepage which is here.

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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/

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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Analog Meters for Learning the Art of Electronics

Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course 2ed

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