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Electronic Circuits
for the Evil Genius

Second Edition
64 Lessons with Projects
By Dave Cutcher

Welcome to the best book to get you started with electronics!

Fully updated throughout, this wickedly inventive guide introduces electronic circuits and circuit design, both analog and digital, through a series of projects, one simple lesson at a time. Each lesson builds a foundation, adding up to practical projects you design.

Using easy-to-find components and equipment, Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius, Second Edition provides hours of rewarding-and slightly twisted-fun.

You'll gain valuable experience in circuit construction and design as you test, modify, and observe your results-skills you can put to work in other exciting circuit-building projects you design yourself!

Electronic Circuits for the Evil Genius, Second Edition, features:

  • Step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations


  • Tips for customizing the projects


  • Underlying electronics principles behind the projects


  • Lists of all the needed parts, along with sources


  • Self tests with answers available on the website
With this book, you'll be able to build these and other devious devices:

  • Automatic night light


  • Light-Sensitive Switch


  • Analog-to-Digital Converter


  • Voltage-Controlled Oscillator


  • Op Amp-Controlled Power Amplifier


  • Burglar alarm


  • Logic gate-based toy


  • Two-way intercom using transistors and op amps

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