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Open Circuits – No Starch Press [pdf]
- jgrauman 4y agoWhen does the print version come out?
- billpollock 4y agoWe should have them in the warehouse in about a month for early shipment to people buying direct from us.
- mhb 4y agoSome previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31942329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31942329
- greenbit 4y agoA 50 page look inside real circuit components that have been cunningly sliced through to reveal the home of the magic smoke.
- Jtsummers 4y agoA 50 page chapter, the book is 304 pages this link is just chapter 1: https://nostarch.com/open-circuits https://nostarch.com/open-circuits - also contains a link to this same PDF.
- geerlingguy 4y agoBought this book the second I found it. It's incredibly well-put together, and I can't wait for the print edition. I have already read through the PDF, and there are so many beautiful illustrations that help show what is actually happening inside a component.
- krasin 4y agoThank you for making me realize it's something I can pay money for. Bought the book right away. They give an DRM-free PDF eBook right away and will ship a paper version later.
- csours 4y agoI'm getting into electronics again. I really wish that younger me had access to this book. I remember taking apart a VCR and seeing the knobs inside (potentiometers) and wondering why there were knobs INSIDE where the user couldn't do anything? Was there some secret function that I could unlock by changing the position? Alas, the secret function was "eat the VCR cassette tape".
- surfpel 4y agoHere's a podcast they did on the Embedded FM podcast: https://embedded.fm/episodes/419 https://embedded.fm/episodes/419
- Koshkin 4y agoI wish Ken Shirriff [1], too, published a book like this. Such a treasure. [1] http://www.righto.com/ http://www.righto.com/
- drifkin 4y agoturns out that Ken Shirriff is the technical reviewer for this book! (I saw this in the early access PDF)
- kens 4y agoMaybe someday :-) If I ever focus on one subject long enough for a book...
- CamperBob2 4y agoJust print your blog to .PDF or .PS and send it to these guys for printing. I'm in for a copy!
- djmips 4y agoThis is just chapter one [a preview] of the forthcoming book. Retitle? https://nostarch.com/open-circuits https://nostarch.com/open-circuits
- tubetime 4y agoco-author here, feel free to ask questions.
- csours 4y agoI just ordered the book - do you talk about how you made the cutaways in the book? Very cool! I wish younger me had access to this.
- tubetime 4y agoyes, there is a "behind the scenes" chapter that goes into some of the methods we used, including photographic techniques.
- geerlingguy 4y agoIf there's ever a new edition to this book (it's so thorough, not sure if that's possible), I would sit and watch any video footage of the process for hours :)
- mcpherrinm 4y agoHow close is the current Early Access PDF to what you think the final book will be?
- tubetime 4y agovery close, we made some minor fixes before going to press.
- ignaloidas 4y agoWhat is something that you wanted to fit into the book but weren't able to?
- tubetime 4y agowe had a good number of subjects that didn't make it into the book. some we were not able to section in a way that looked as good as the rest, and others were redundant or didn't quite fit with the theme.
- csours 4y agoTim Hunkin created some amazing films in this vein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlrbMHLBd4&list=PLtaR0lZhSyAPLuoSbMA29s3Ry8ZUvKff3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlrbMHLBd4&list=PLtaR0lZhSy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JAgXz6xO0s&list=PLtaR0lZhSyANYB0Xxb9OSp47pHuQmj3Ol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JAgXz6xO0s&list=PLtaR0lZhSy...
- Abishek_Muthian 4y agoExcellent resource, Thank you very much!
- JKCalhoun 4y agoBig fan of Windell Oskay and his stuff. I wandered into Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories many years ago (in Sunnyvale, as I recall) and I believe I met him but it was a decade ago.... Over the years I picked up a clock that used LED shadows cast onto a gnomon to create the clock's "hands". Picked up a Peggy — giant LED display board. And then some weird plywood thing with marbles and chutes that was a kind of mechanical adder..... I think that was when I went in and chatted.
- rychco 4y agoI love no starch. Their books are always great, both in print quality and content.
- boringg 4y agoWow impressive. All killer, no filler.
- vivegi 4y agoThis is so cool! What a nice way to show the intersection of theory, practice, engineering and exposition.
- chirau 4y agoI love No Starch Press. Apart from their more popular ones like Eloquent Javascript and Automate The Boring Stuff, i have discovered several nice gems in their catalogue which they keep small and of really high quality. I haven't been disappointed by any of the books i have purchased from them... 14 to be exact.
- billpollock 4y ago:)
- mtremsal 4y agoI’ve really enjoyed The Secret Life of Programs by Jonathan E. Steinhart. From analog signals, to gates, to cpus and memory, and so on all the way up. Very cool concept, well executed.
- billpollock 4y agoThat's a beautiful book
- fredgrott 4y agoDo not tempt, I first picked up calculus due to electronics way before my high school classes introduced it due to an electronics book like this.
- gkhartman 4y agoThis is really neat. It brought back some childhood memories of attempting to cut open components, only to find that I'd turned their insides to dust in the process. Sending thanks to the authors for fulfilling a want that I didn't know I still had.