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I've never heard of a whole book, but I can see how it'd be a great book if someone really took the time to make it. I guess you could argue that The Art of El

I've never heard of a whole book, but I can see how it'd be a great book if someone really took the time to make it. I guess you could argue that The Art of Electronics kind of fills this niche. Horowitz and Hill call out a bunch of non-functional or error prone circuits with large, friendly "DON'T DO THIS" labels. The second edition had a great section at the end of each chapter entitled "Bad Circuits" that served just this purpose. (The only flaw with the 3rd edition is that they took out "Bad Circuits", in my opinion.)

yummypaint 7y ago
That's too bad they removed the bad circuits. I found those extremely useful when first starting out. Sometimes my first guess at how to do something was explicitly noted as a bad circuit, which i suspect was the intention. After reading about a new component, students often wonder "can i just do x instead?" and the bad circuits section did a great job of anticipating these kinds of questions.