Designing Electronics that Work enables anyone with entry-level electrical knowledge to build elegant hardware that works on the first try. By teaching you the things most engineers only learn by experience, you’ll learn common pitfalls and mistakes so that you don’t make them yourself.
A uniquely practical guide for beginners, the emphasis is on explaining the reasoning behind each method in order to ensure your designs are driven by insight, not blind rule-following. It’s also packed with hundreds of highly useful tricks and techniques that speed up workflow and save hardware designers time and money. You’ll learn the entire process for developing a device—from conceiving an idea to the final schematic, including prototyping, selecting components, layout, fabrication, assembly, working with suppliers, cost-engineering, regulatory testing, and even troubleshooting when things go wrong.
Introduction
Chapter 1: What to Build and How to Plan for It
Chapter 2: Selecting Components
Chapter 3: Prototyping
Chapter 4: Schematic Design
Chapter 5: Layout Design
Chapter 6: Cost Engineering
Chapter 7: Fabrication and Assembly
Chapter 8: Testing
Chapter 9: Building a Lab
Chapter 10: Troubleshooting
Appendix A: Rules of Thumb
Appendix B: How to Give a Demo
Appendix C: Companies That Can Help
The chapters in red are included in this Early Access PDF.
