Basic Electronics for Tomorrow's Inventors

CHAPTER 1 Setting Up Your Workbench

BEFORE YOU START TO LEARN ABOUT electronics and electronic components, you will need to put together a few pieces of equipment that are required to build the experiments in this book. Figure 1-1 shows some of the basic tools you’ll need. Each piece of equipment is described in more detail in this chapter.

FIGURE 1-1 Some of the equipment you’ll need to build the experiments in this book. From top, moving clockwise: safety glasses, wire strippers, breadboard, multimeter, and wire cutters.

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