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Book 2: Complex Electronics
Chapter 5: Electronics Revisited
Basic principles
See also Learn Electronics and Learn Electronics/Analogue and Digital
DC circuits
AC circuits I
AC circuits II
Aerials, antennae and transmission lines
Analog electronics
See also Electronics/Analog Circuits and Wikipedia: Analog circuit and Wikipedia: Analog signal and Wikipedia: Analog computer
Digital electronics
See also Electronics/Digital Circuits and Digital Circuits and Wikipedia: Digital and Wikipedia: Digital circuit
The wider picture
Chapter 6: Radio
Crystals
Signal Propagation
Signal Modulation
Signal Modulation 2
Error Correcting Codes
Chapter 7: Radio Astronomy
Radio Astronomy[]
Chapter 8: Computers
Computers
Data Formats
Cables
Displays
Printers
Audio Electronics
Book 3: Electricity
Chapter 9: Electricity
Power
Motors
Transformers
Power Transmission
Chapter 10: Appliances
Light Bulbs
Chapter 11: Bioelectricity
Medical Equipment
Microscopes
Chapter 12: Physics
Book 4: Machines
Chapter 13: Semiconductors
Semiconductors are often made of silicon.
FPGAs
ASICs
Chapter 13 and a half: Component Construction details
Magnetic Materials
Capacitor Construction
Inductor Construction
Transformer Construction
Chapter 15: Robotics
An excellent source of info is the various Robotics Societies, including Seattle Robotics Society and Dallas Personal Robotics Group. There is a lot of info on these groups websites, especially in the archived pages of The Encoder, published by SRS.
To begin, an excellent source would be the Wikipedia pages on Robotics (w:Robotics) or the Robotics Wikibook.
Chapter 16: Spacecraft
Telemetry - Measurement at a distance. Critical in the success of early spacecraft. This technology allowed an incredible pyramid of resources to be applied to monitoring and safely operating the machine and human occupied spacecraft of the pre-space era of human development. Modern development efforts are focusing on a new generation of space based grid technologies that are hopefully sustainable independently from the mother planet with only occasional unnoticed intervention from the Lord Almighty but which when prematurely, suddenly or unexpectedly exposed to an adverse probability surge from outside the locally anticipated systems or universes can survive long enough to request and receive assistance.
Telecommunications []
Book 5: History of Electronics
Timeline
Introduction
Early days
Academics
Electricity
Energy Sources
Broadcasting
Radio Astronomy
Computers
Various topics not yet in books
Other Components
Devices
Links to Other Subjects