Hi Everyone. I want to do some simple experiments with motors and other fun electrical things, and know some basic stuff, but want to get more info so I don't do anything stu-pid. I figured this is a crowd of people who have had some experience.. Any book recomendations?
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I don't read no motherfucking books dude. If I feel like standing in a shallow puddlepool so that I can feel the cool water lapping up against my crooked toes while I carelessly gut ominous old found plugged-in electrogizmos then THAT'S MY UNALIENABLE RIGHT!
Honestly, I have been zapped many a time (not ususally fatally) and know almost nothing about basic electical issues, except that, although Hollywood never tires of the depiction, after you are electrocuted you can only very rarely shoot lightening from your fingertips.
In other words, I would like to see an answer to this question as much as you.
I've been thinking about folk knowledge of technology a lot. Like how older people use computers - there is so much superstition and ritualistic behavior involved - like needless extra clicking of the mouse and unwillingness to learn the rational truth about how programs work - instead sticking to the one pattern they learned that works, even if it is inefficient and silly. That's what I call internet voodoo (although my respect for Haitian culture is way high). The same thing with electricity - most people have no clue how it works (myself included for sure). Have you ever seen the James Thurber (from the New Yorker) cartoon where this woman is looking at the electrical socket, and little Z's are spilling out? There's too much paranoia. Anyway, I'd really like to do a project on this - I think it has a lot to do with Confucian ideas of ritual and ceremony - and I am interested in how people know things (or rather how they don't) - and expertise.
I hope that clarified your butter into ghee.
Radio Shack has some pretty basic manuals explaining the differents components and uses of different circuits and stuff that you can probably find online, cause they only sell cellphones and plastic dino-robots now. Otherwise I would recommend The Art of Electronics by Hayes and Horowitz. They have sort of a physics-y type of humor I guess, too.
su-weet.
good call TUCKER on the art of electronics book–easier to read than most internet electronics reference and not as much math as a physics textbook
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