The book that teaches the practical secrets of electronics design that most engineers learn the hard way.
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Stop wasting time on "guess and check" engineering and learn the nuances of modern electronics design.
Save Hundreds of Hours
Skip the expensive mistakes. Learn what usually takes years of trial and error in just one book.
Unlock Your Potential
Turn your vision into a working prototype. No more getting stuck on the basics.
Accelerate Your Career
Deliver production-ready designs that actually work. Become the engineer everyone wants to hire.
Learn the parts of electrical engineering most people only discover the hard way:
- What to build and how to plan for it
- Component specifications and purchasing
- Selecting passive components
- Selecting active components
- Schematic design
- Layout design
- Design for excellence
- Regulatory requirements for EMI/EMC
- Cost engineering
- Prototyping
- Building a lab
- Fabrication and assembly
- Testing
- Troubleshooting
- How to give a demo
- Recommended resources
- Example fabrication notes
Clear, practical guidance whether you are just starting out or building your next product.
Engineering students and new grads
Learn the practical stuff that doesn't get covered in class, but is critical for your success as an engineer. Very useful for senior design.
Hobbyists and Hackers
See how to overcome and avoid problems that keep you from finishing projects. Save money and time by needing fewer iterations to get a design working.
Researchers
Get your electronics to work so you can get back to actually collecting data.
Artists
Building an installation? Learn how to make the concept in your head real.
Startups
Move faster than your competition, achieve product-market fit, and design products that are actually manufacturable.
Working Engineers
Level up your design skills and learn industry best practices that separate good engineers from great ones.
Hunter Scott is an electrical and computer engineer with 15 years of experience in designing and implementing advanced hardware systems. He holds a degree in computer engineering from Georgia Tech and has taken two hardware companies through Y Combinator as a founder. He is a founding engineer at Reach Power, a long-range power beaming startup in Silicon Valley, where he leads technical strategy. He also advises startups and is a venture partner at Pioneer Fund. Scott has worked on a wide range of electronics designs, including medical devices, robotics, communications systems, and high-power millimeter wave phased arrays, and he holds several patents. His personal projects have included designing electronics for a large interactive art installation at Burning Man and developing a Twitter bot that won hundreds of contests. You can learn more about him or get in touch at hscott.net.
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