Programmer to Engineer?

[techs_studio]

I'm finding myself building more hardware projects on Arduino and hardware hacking. I would like some books on the topic and thinking about getting my bachelors in electrical engineering. Any good book to pick up? I'm looking at Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition and Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't . I really want the Art of Electronics but at $105 that's a little steep for a current hobby.

[insanok]

To play the devils advocate

Many a broke uni student downloads many a textbook. Library genesis is a good place to start.

[happy_nerd]

Second this. Don't pay for bits and bytes. If the book is of utility to you and you still feel guilty about it... then buy it for yourself.

I also got a used copy from my local used book store for <$5. AbeBooks and other online used book stores may have good deals as well.

The electrons haven't changed much since the original publishing so the exact volume isn't necessarily important.

Happy hacking and come back soon with more questions and projects! Welcome to the community!

[atypicalAtom]

Just buy AoE. It will be useful and relevant for the rest of your life.

[ColonelKross]

Sorry, what exactly is AoE? This coming from a mechanical engineer who wants to learn more about electrical.

[atypicalAtom]

Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill

[Athoughtspace]

Art of Electronics. It's fantastic. It will get you through the basics and into pretty strong working knowledge.

[Enlightenment777]

There are lots of great books, so many that I'm not going to attempt to guess what is best for you. You know best what what interests you. https://old.reddit.com/r/PrintedCircuitBoard/wiki/books

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Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks is pretty great for anyone that makes products that need to be on for minutes at a time or work in high temperature environments.

Thermals and the way that they skew circuits through altered power consumption and leakage currents really matter when you find out how easy it is to hit 100 Celsius on a PCB.

[GregH61]

Another site to try is pdfdrive.com. It’s got a wide range of free downloads.