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TALKING ELECTRONICS PUBLICATIONS
Talking Electronics has produced a range of books to teach the fundamentals of electronics.
The list below covers our titles.
These books are designed to teach the fundamentals of electronics from the basics through to circuit designing, presented in the simplest way.
 

Downloading sample pages:
Download and view the sample pages by right-clicking on the hyperlinks and click ‘save file as.’ Download the file to your computer to view it. (Adobe acrobat is free and is needed to view the .pdf files, found HERE). File sizes have been kept to a minimum so the quality is not perfect. Each file is approx 500KB.
 
CAT #       Title  (right-click for .pdf) Price (USD)   Included items:
B-14FM 14 FM Bugs to Build   25.00 The ANT PCB
B-5MFM 5 More FM Bugs    5.40 Wasp PCB
B-6BD 6  BD 679 Projects    5.40 BD679 transistor & PCB
B-CDB1 CMOS Data Book    4.80  
B-CP1 Cover Projects    6.00  
B-DER1 Digital Electronics Revealed    7.20 Simple Siren PCB
B-EMR1 Electronics for Model Railways-1   5.50 Rotating Lights PCB
B-EMR2 Electronics for Model Railways-2  5.50 Level Crossing Lights PCB
B-EN1 Electronics Notebook 1 / Starting in TTL 7.20 3 x CMOS chips
B-EN2 Electronics Notebook 2    6.00 Bag 25 mixed resistors
B-EN3 Electronics Notebook 3    6.00 Bag 25 mixed capacitors
B-EN4 Electronics Notebook 4   6.00 Bag 15 mixed transistors
B-EN5 Electronics Notebook 5    6.00 Bag 10 mixed diodes
B-EN6 Electronics Notebook 6    6.00 PCB for soldering test
B-LE1 Learning Electronics Book 1   5.40 Simple Siren PCB
B-LE2 Learning Electronics Book 2   5.50  
B-SSD1 Smart Security Devices Book 1   5.50 Motor Speed Controller PCB
B-TE1 Talking Electronics Issue 1    5.40 LED Zeppelin PCB

The Included Items are only available for purchases of 2 or more books.

We have hundreds of PCB's to give away when you buy 2 or more books. The boards are very popular and the projects can be built from your parts-box or the kit of components can be obtained from us. Four of the most-popular boards are:  Logic DesignerStereo VU meterHangman (game) and  Dual Tracking Power Supply. These four projects are featured in the Cover Projects book.

POSTAGE RATES

Zone 1 Book 2 books 3 books
Australia $1.30 $1.80 $2.80
Asia/Pacific $2.50 $3.55 $6.90
Rest of World $3.55 $5.20 $10.50

All Publications are in stock and ready to post out the same working day.
To provide low postage we send up to 3 books per parcel e.g 5 books = 2 parcels.
Books are NOT posted with any other products (different rates apply).

 
 

World  Zones

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  Israel Rest of the world Taiwan Asia/Pacific
  Italy Rest of the world Thailand Asia/Pacific
  Japan Asia/Pacific United Kingdom Rest of the world
  Korea South Asia/Pacific USA Rest of the world
  Malaysia Asia/Pacific Vietnam Asia/Pacific
  Malta Rest of the world    

Here is an interesting site selling SUPER BRIGHT LEDs:

5mm LEDs
PART NUMBER,
color of LED
INTENSITY
@ 20ma

Price
1 - 9

RL5-W2545
2500 mcd
1.38
RL5-W3030
3000 mcd = 3cd!
1.38
RL5-W5020
5000 mcd
1.38
RL5-W6018
6000 mcd
1.58
RL5-W6030
6000 mcd
1.49
RL5-W10015
10000 mcd
1.49
RL5-B2430
2400 mcd
1.14
RL5-B3023
3000 mcd
0.95
RL5-B5515
5500 mcd
1.30
RL5-G8045
8000 mcd
1.58
RL5-G5030
5000 mcd
1.14
RL5-G5023
5000 mcd
1.05
RL5-G8020
8000 mcd
1.38
RL5-G9015
9000 mcd
1.38
RL5-G13008
13000 mcd
1.58
RL5-A7032
7000 mcd
1.38
RL5-A9018
9000 mcd
1.38
RL5-RD1560
1500 mcd
0.56
RL5-R3545
3500 mcd
0.60
RL5-R8030
8000 mcd
0.60
RL5-R7030
7000 mcd
0.56
RL5-R5015
5000 mcd
0.49
RL5-R12008
12000 mcd
0.62
RL5-Y3545
3500 mcd
0.60
RL5-Y5030
5000 mcd
0.60
RL5-Y3230
3200 mcd
0.49
RL5-Y4523
4500 mcd
0.49
RL5-Y5615
5600 mcd
0.49
RL5-Y10008
10000 mcd
0.62
RL5-O4030
4000 mcd
0.54
RL5-O5015
5000 mcd
0.54
RL5-UV1530
1500 mcd
1.58
2000 mcd
1.95
RL5-IR2730
27mW/sr
1.59
3mm LEDs
RL3-W3030
3000 mcd
1.38
RL3-B2030
2000 mcd
1.30
RL3-G4518
4500 mcd
1.38
RL3-G3530
3500 mcd
1.38
RL3-A4018
4000 mcd
1.38
RL3-R5030
5000 mcd
0.60
RL3-R5014
5000 mcd
0.60
RL3-R4545
4500 mcd
0.60
RL3-Y5014
5000 mcd
0.60
RL3-Y4545
4500 mcd
0.60
RL3-O3214
3200 mcd
0.49
Blinking LEDS
RL5-BW1520
1500 mcd
 
RL5-BB3020
3000 mcd
 
RL5-BR2020
2000 mcd
 
RL5-BRB2020
2000 mcd
 

 

Here's another interesting site:
Vote for your favorite Gadget Freak of 2003!
Check out the finalists at www.designnews.com/gadgetfreak

Make sure you book-mark Gadget Freak as you will want to come back often.


Another website with lots of information for the hobbyist is Electronics For You.
Here is their promotional animation:



Here's an interesting project from a reader:


It is basically a 3D arrangement of LEDs driven from a computer. The model above contains 100's of LEDs but the
reader is happy with a simpler versions shown below containing 125 LEDs:

The project requires each LED to be individually turned on and off.
It's obviously the job for a microcontroller but the requirement of 125 outputs is enormous.
The second point to consider is the programming. Each LED will need to be given a value and you need to be able to add all the values to produce a pattern for each frame of a sequence.
Next you need to have some form of input to activate each LED. You may need 125 push-switches in a 3D arrangement with a toggle on-off action to turn on the LEDs for each frame of the sequence. This will involve another 125 "lines" or inputs.
You can consider multiplexing the whole display, but this will decrease the brightness slightly.
It's an interesting project but very complex.
I don't have any simple answers.
Anyone with suggestions will be welcome.




It's a lot of work to keep a site active, but the thousands of readers we are attracting has proven that an enormous world-wide interest exists for electronics.
Don't forget to tell your friends about the site. They will thank you for it.

For now,
Colin Mitchell,
Editor
TALKING ELECTRONICS Interactive.


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