Building Your Own Electronics Lab: A Guide to Setting Up Your Own Gadget Workshop

Index

A

Active electrical and electronic components

batteries, 81

diodes, 82–83

integrated circuits, 84

LEDs, 83

power supplies, 81

transformers, 82

transistors, 83–84

Active-participant model, 137

American wire gauge (AWG), 26–28, 60–61

Ammeters, 49

Anarchic chaos, 140

AND circuit, 124

Arduino-compatible microcomputer, 67

AWG. See American wire gauge (AWG)

B

Barrier strip, 30–31

Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), 83, 84

Bolts, 33

Budgeting, 14–15

C

Capacitors

definition, 76

electrolytic capacitors, 77

schematic symbols, 78

in series and parallel, ...