"Congratulations! You are about to enter the exciting world of solid-state electronics. The projects in this manual will teach you many of the basic principles of electronics using circuits that are as much fun as they are educational. By the time you build all the circuits in this workbook, you will be well on the way to designing your own electronic circuits, and you’ll be well equipped to begin the digital logic workbook that is also provided with your electronics learning lab." Forrest M. Mims III
This is the first of two workbooks provided with the Radio Shack “Electronics Learning Lab” 28-280
Forrest M. Mims III is an amateur scientist, magazine columnist, and author of the popular Getting Started in Electronics and Engineer's Mini-Notebook series of instructional books that was originally sold in Radio Shack electronics stores. Mims graduated from Texas A&M University in 1966 with a major in government and minors in English and history. He became a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force.
Although he has no formal academic training in science,Mims has had a successful career as a science author, researcher, lecturer and syndicated columnist.