Errata

Make: Electronics

Errata for Make: Electronics, Third Edition

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page ii
Middle of page

It says "See https: / / www.oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=9781680457124 for release details". This link leads to a different book.

Proposed link (correctly mentioned on page ix): https : / /www.oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=9781680456875

 Taco  Feb 02, 2022  May 05, 2023
Page Page 190
3rd paragraph of Logical Origins section, last line

Book reads "If the answer to both questions is “true,” then it’s an amphibian (which was the overlap of the two circles in the second Venn diagram). I’m referring to that as A AND B."

There is only 1 Venn diagram, so no need for the word "second".

Note from the Author or Editor:
The error is correctly identified. The word referred to a prior version.

 Dylan Cahill  Dec 24, 2022  May 05, 2023
Page Experiment 16
Figures 16.2 and 16.9

Kindle version.

Both figures show pin 4 of the 555 attached to ground rather than VCC. As a result the circuit does not work.

Note from the Author or Editor:
So far as I can see, the errors are actually in figures 16-3, 16-10, and 16-12, unless the figure numbering in the Kindle version is different, which seems unlikely. New graphics must be substituted.

 David Higgins  Feb 10, 2023  May 05, 2023
Page 48
Paragraph 1

6.5mm is 0.26 inches, not 2.6 inches.

Note from the Author or Editor:
The error was correctly identified and will be corrected.

 Tom  Nov 12, 2022  May 05, 2023
Page 181
Figure 18-6, bottom left corner

The bottom left-most blue wire ends at a point that is not a hole in the breadboard. This end should be moved up or down one point (0.1 inch) on the breadboard.

Note from the Author or Editor:
The reader has correctly identified an error which must be fixed with a new version of Figure 18-6.

 Anonymous  Jan 03, 2023  May 05, 2023