This is going to be a short post, but I’m really happy about finally finishing the book Practical Electronics for Inventors. I’ve been reading this book for quite a while, because I was also making notes for it and I did the exercises
While studying my degree I always wondered if electrical engineering would have been a better choice and this book pretty much confirms that I like computer engineering the most (so the contact between CS and EE). The book made me refresh some of the basics of electricity, but also made me learn a lot of new practical topics from electrical engineering - I now finally understand what power decoupling capacitors are for, I never understood their placement on schematics before. The practical implementation of filters, load voltage dividors, constructing circuits for PCBs but most importantly digital technology and FPGAs are now in my bag - or well at least I have a look-up-book 😁
I really want to develop my own PCBs in the future and also experiment with FPGAs, so this book forms the fundamental knowledge in electronics that I will need for these undertakings. But also generally I just love the writing style. Things are explained with many pictures, with ample analogies and many examples - the typical American writing style, quite reminiscent of Giancoli - and what I also really like is that it doesn’t hide the mathematical principles, but keeps the calculations simple at the same time. It’s a long read, but this book was truly worth the time investment
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