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=== Electronics === | === Electronics === | ||
* Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting | * [http://www.amazon.com/Fashioning-Technology-Intro-Crafting-Projects/dp/0596514379/ Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting] by Syuzi Pakhchyan | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0945053282/ Getting Started in Electronics] by Forrest Mims | |||
: A very readable and nearly mathematics free guide to electronics components and schematics. There are many small projects that can be completed in a single evening of work. | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1878707035/ Engineer's Notebook] by Forrest Mims | |||
: Continues where <i>Getting Started in Electronics</i> ends and has many cookbook solutions to common tasks. If you've seen the Radio Shack "Mini notebooks", this is a compilation of all of them. | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-Scherz/dp/0071452818/ Practical Electronics for Inventors] by Paul Scherz | |||
: Similar in to Forrest Mims' books, but with more theory and math. Lots of analog circuits and discrete logic examples. | |||
=== Computers === | === Computers === | ||
Revision as of 21:31, 30 July 2008
The HacDC Reading list, featuring the finest hacker tomes. (If you have ideas on how to organize, categorize, and linkize these, use the discussion page. I've avoided adding too much detail, so as to minimize the amount of work that will need to be done to re-arrange the list once a more useful organization scheme is hatched.)
Kid's Books
Non-Fiction
Biography & History
- The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling.
Electronics
- Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting by Syuzi Pakhchyan
- Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest Mims
- A very readable and nearly mathematics free guide to electronics components and schematics. There are many small projects that can be completed in a single evening of work.
- Engineer's Notebook by Forrest Mims
- Continues where Getting Started in Electronics ends and has many cookbook solutions to common tasks. If you've seen the Radio Shack "Mini notebooks", this is a compilation of all of them.
- Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz
- Similar in to Forrest Mims' books, but with more theory and math. Lots of analog circuits and discrete logic examples.