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The DIY Electronics Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide
An overview of the stages of learning basic electronics: core components, simple circuits, essential tools and safe low-voltage habits for beginners.
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Electronics And Robotics
Microcontroller projects, gadgets and simple robots for beginners.
5 Creative Ways to Repurpose Old Electronics
Five ideas for reusing discarded electronics, from salvaged parts bins to display cases, with safe salvaging notes and cautions about e-waste.
DIY Electronics: Building and Customizing Your Own Gadgets
How to plan, prototype, enclose and tweak a small gadget of your own, from a first breadboard sketch to a finished case you can actually use.
Driving Small Motors and Servos
Learn how DC motors, servos and stepper motors differ, and why a microcontroller needs a driver circuit, power supply and protection to control them.
Electronics for Everyone: A Guide to Arduino and Beyond
What a microcontroller board is, how sketches read inputs and control outputs, and where to go after your first blinking LED project.
How to Build a Functional Arduino Robot from Scratch
An honest overview of the stages in building a small wheeled hobby robot: chassis, motors, sensors, power and code, with safety and testing advice.
Robotics for Makers: Building and Programming Robots
The programming side of hobby robots: reading sensors, writing decision loops, handling timing and testing behavior so a robot acts predictably.
Using Sensors to Let a Robot React
How distance, light and touch sensors work, what their readings mean and how a small robot can use them to avoid obstacles, follow light or stop on contact.
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