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J. BartlettElectronics for Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5979-5_28

28. Going Further

Jonathan Bartlett1 
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Tulsa, OK, USA
 

Congratulations! You have reached the end of this book! Hopefully, though, this is just the beginning of your electronics journey. From here, there are many directions you can go.

If you are mostly into digital electronics (programming and using microcontrollers), then this book probably has all of the electronics knowledge you need. From here, you should learn more about programming and more about the devices you want to use for your projects. Additionally, there are a ton of add-on devices that can be controlled with these sorts of microcontrollers. Learning about how to program and what devices are available would be your best next step. A good start to this would be Michael McRobert’s book Beginning Arduino, Brian Evans’s book Beginning Arduino Programming, or Bob Dukish’s Coding the Arduino.

If you were more interested in the sound and amplification sections, the next steps would be to either learn how to do this with microcontrollers or learn to do it directly with capacitors, inductors, and other electronic components. For the microcontroller path, try out Mike Cook’s Arduino Music and Audio Projects or Alexandros Drymonitis’s Digital Electronics for Musicians. For direct work in electronics, check out Craig Anderton’s classic, Electronic Projects for Musicians, or, if you can find a copy, Nicholas Boscorelli’s The Stomp Box Cookbook. Ray Wilson’s Make: Analog Synthesizers is also good.

If you want to learn more about electric motors and devices that move, there are a lot of options as well. David Cook’s Robot Building for Beginners is a great place to start, as well as the follow-up book Intermediate Robot Building. Jeff Cicolani also has a book, Beginning Robotics with Raspberry Pi and Arduino, that is worth looking into. The book Arduino Robotics has a lot of more advanced ideas as well, including a DIY Segway clone.

If you want to know more about the operation of the components themselves, the best in-depth guidebook (though very expensive!) is Paul Horowitz’s The Art of Electronics. If electronics is going to be your profession, it’s worth every penny. Otherwise, it is probably a little too advanced (and expensive) for the casual hobbyist.

If you enjoyed the math and wanted to know more, I suggest that you start by learning calculus, as much of the math of electronics is based in some way on calculus. The book I would suggest for that is my own Calculus from the Ground Up.

Anyway, I wish you well on your electronics journey. You are well prepared to begin!

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