 | Timer, Op Amp, and Optoelectronic Circuits & Projects by Forrest M. Mims III
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $25.55 Originally a much thinner booklet from Radio Shack, this has a lot of useful info on 555 timers, 741 (and other general) opamps, and various kinds of optoelectronics (LEDs, CDS cells, etc).
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 | Science and Communication Circuits & Projects by Forrest M. Mims III
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $10.95 Wireless and light communication. If you're interested, this is an excellent primer.
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 | Electronic Sensor Circuits & Projects by Forrest M. Mims III
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $28.00 How-to for various kinds of sensors (light, sound, temp, etc).
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 | The Forrest Mims Circuit Scrapbook, Vol 1 by Forrest Mims
Buy new: $17.78 / Used from: $13.77 Reprints of Mims' articles from Popular Electronics. A must buy if only for the LED oscilloscope.
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 | Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest M. Mims III
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $14.96 I'm pretty sure this was the "green book" published by Radio Shack in the 80s and 90s. If you don't know anything about electronics, start here.
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 | Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook by Forrest Mims
Buy new: $22.41 / Used from: $15.98 The original. Source of the Atari Punk Console. Mecca. Hundreds of great ideas for analog synthesis, Lunettas, etc. Not a lot of detailed notes, so if you're new, make sure you also pick up "Getting Started..."
This was originally published by Radio Shack with a yellow cover and gridded newsprint pages.
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 | Electronic Formulas, Symbols & Circuits by Forrest M. Mims III
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $10.98 Excellent, almost pocket, reference. A necessity.
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 | Circuit Scrapbook by Forrest M. Mims
Buy used from: $21.99 Articles from Modern Electronics. After, I believe, Popular Electronics. Mostly from the early 80s. Because they're articles, there's lots of discussion about the circuit. Great learning resource.
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