
Logic Gates and Circuits for Makers
A Step-by-Step Workbook of Practical Circuit Designs, Components and Real ProjectsBy Corinne BeaulieuLength11h 29m
About this audiobook
A hands-on workbook that teaches logic gates and digital circuits through breadboard builds, from basic gates to state machines and ten complete projects.
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GenreTechnology
Length11 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Logic Gates and Circuits for Makers
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Chapter 1: Your Bench and Your Meter
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61.1 The Bench Itself
71.2 Breadboards and Jumper Practice
81.3 The Multimeter as Your First Instrument
91.4 The Logic Probe
101.5 Oscilloscope Basics Without Fear
111.6 Reading a Datasheet
121.7 Static, Storage and Part Handling
13Chapter 2: Electricity for Logic Work
142.1 Voltage, Current and Resistance
152.2 Ohm’s Law and Power
162.3 Pull-Up and Pull-Down Resistors
172.4 LEDs and Current Limiting
182.5 Decoupling Capacitors
19Chapter 3: Binary, Hex and Number Systems
203.1 Counting in Binary
213.2 Hexadecimal Shorthand
223.3 Conversion by Hand and by Calculator
233.4 Signed Numbers and Two’s Complement
243.5 Binary Addition and Subtraction
253.6 Binary Coded Decimal
26Chapter 4: The Basic Gates
274.1 AND, OR and NOT From Switches
284.2 Diode Logic
294.3 Transistor Logic
304.4 NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR
314.5 Truth Tables and Gate Symbols
32Chapter 5: Logic Families and Real Chip Behaviour
335.1 TTL and CMOS Voltage Levels
345.2 Noise Margin
355.3 Fan-Out and Loading
365.4 Propagation Delay and Timing
375.5 Unused Inputs and Open-Drain Outputs
385.6 Level Shifting Between Supplies
39Chapter 6: Combinational Design
406.1 Boolean Algebra Laws
416.2 De Morgan’s Theorems
426.3 Sum of Products and Product of Sums
436.4 Karnaugh Maps
446.5 Don’t-Care Conditions
456.6 From Requirement to Gate Diagram
46Chapter 7: Adders, Comparators and Arithmetic
477.1 The Half Adder
487.2 The Full Adder and Ripple Carry
497.3 Subtraction With Two’s Complement
507.4 Magnitude Comparators