If you don't know the difference between a potentiometer and a transistor, you will have difficulty making circuits with your Arduino. Electronic components are the building blocks. If you are looking for a book to get you up to speed, I recommend the short and highly readable Make: Electronics by Charles Platt.

Anyone have other suggestions for beginner electronics books? Web sites? You Tube videos?

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Hey everybody,

The MakerShed is having a sale until midnight on the 31st - all their PDF books are 75% off!

There are several items regarding Arduinos including the PDF version of O'Reilly's Arduino Cookbook (2nd ed.) The PDF is usually $35.99 but 75% off = $8.99.

I don't mean to sound like a commercial, but it is a pretty good deal. I got $120 worth of PDFs for $30.00.

Anyway, you are supposed to sign up for the free newsletter and the you get the discount code - PDF75 . If you buy anything you won't see the discount applied until just before you actually place the order, then the total will be recalculated - I was a bit nervous until I saw that.

What's my favorite electronics book? Any one I can get for 75% off, including Make: Electronics.

Paul Hazel

If you don't know the difference between a potentiometer and a transistor, you will have difficulty making circuits with your Arduino. Electronic components are the building blocks. If you are looking for a book to get you up to speed, I recommend the short and highly readable Make: Electronics by Charles Platt.

Anyone have other suggestions for beginner electronics books? Web sites? You Tube videos?

One of the best I have found is also from Platt and Make: is Encyclopedia of electronic components
I consider it a must have for any beginner and I also am learning things from it and use it as a reference all the time.