"This helpful guide is packed with hundreds of colorful diagrams and photographs alongside step-by-step instructions for experiments that show you how electronic components work. Follow expert advice on choosing and using essential tools, and put that know-how into practice with exciting projects you can complete in 30 minutes or less! Learn what voltage is, where current flows, and how power is used in a circuit. Explore the ins and outs of digital...

Modern life makes extensive use of electronics. On a daily basis, we use smartphones, computers, and TVs in the home and robots in industry and commerce. This title outlines the development of electronics, from early vacuum tubes to today's microchips. It explains how semiconductors work at the atomic level and how they are made into solid-state devices essential for the Internet and other applications. A biographical chapter on J. J. Thomson, who...

Computer hacking takes on a whole new meaning when you're going at it with a screwdriver and hammer: announcing the most wildly inventive, eco-friendly craft book on repurposing everyday objects since Generation T. Except in this case the raw material isn't a T-shirt, but the stuff we all have lying around and have no idea what to do with, or even how to get rid of properly-your old cell phone, a broken printer, irredeemable iPod, busted digital camera,...

Consumed with emailing, online video games, and the many distractions of her electronic gadgets, hyper-frenetic Columbia University freshman Veronica, known as Very LeFreak, enters a rehab facility for the technology-addicted after her professors and classmates stage an intervention.

"New technology is changing the way people watch and play esports. Learn about the technology that makes these competitions possible and what the future holds for esports"-- Provided by publisher.

In the fall of 1930, David Packard left his hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, to enroll at Stanford University, where he befriended another freshman, Bill Hewlett. After graduation, Hewlett and Packard decided to throw their lots in together. They tossed a coin to decide whose name should go first on the notice of incorporation, then cast about in search of products to sell. Today, the one-car garage in Palo Alto that housed their first workshop is a...

This text presents practical rules and strategies for circuits designed to protect electronic systems from damage by transient overvoltages. The treatment covers symptoms and threats, fundamental remedies, types of protective devices, applications of protective devices, validation of protective measures, and much more. 1989 edition.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "ELEE0108 - OPERACIONES AUXILIARES DE MONTAJE DE REDES ELÉCTRICAS". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.

Internet de las cosas (IoT) ha llegado para quedarse. Su presencia se hace notar en campos como la medicina, la industria, el transporte, la energia, la agricultura, las ciudades inteligentes y, especialmente, en los hogares, ambito en el que se centra este libro. Si quiere conocer todo lo necesario para crear sus proyectos de IoT con dispositivos Arduino y ESP8266, este es el libro indicado. Sus explicaciones parten de un nivel basico en Arduino...