Electronics from the Ground Up: Learn by Hacking, Designing, and Inventing

CHAPTER 3

Construction Techniques and Simple Test Equipment

In this chapter, we will look at a few different types of circuit construction techniques. With the overview of certain electronics components introduced in Chapter 2, this chapter will show how they can be assembled to make a useful circuit.

For starters, solder-less circuits will be examined such as superstrip prototype boards or circuits assembled via twisting the wire leads and taping down the components onto an index card. Alternatively, a giant loopstick antenna coil radio is shown to work even though the wires leading up to the tuning capacitor are at least a foot long. Later we ...