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Stewart Watkiss, Learn Electronics with Raspberry Pi, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1898-3_1

1. Getting Started with Electronic Circuits

Stewart Watkiss

(1)Redditch, UK

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Most of this book involves connecting circuits to a Raspberry Pi, but before you actually plug anything into the Raspberry Pi, you will need a basic understanding of electronic circuits. This is going to be a gentle introduction, so if you already know how to build your own simple circuits and would like to jump straight in to connecting into the Raspberry Pi, feel free to jump to Chapter 2.

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