World Scientific Publishing is marketing my book. They have put out a flyer for several of their electronics books (https://www.worldscientific.com/pb-assets/wspc-site/catalogue-pdf/Electrical-Electronics-Engineering2024-25-1705395593457.pdf), and my book is the first one on the flyer!
Of course, they don’t mention that the PDF for the book is also available on LeanPub for only $7.99 (https://leanpub.com/applied_analog_electronics), but I wouldn’t expect them to.
Today I found out that the boards that I had been using for the data-acquisition system in my electronics course and textbook (the Teensy LC and the Teensy 3.2) have been discontinued, so I’ll need to port PteroDAQ to a new board. I’ve been thinking that I should port to the Seeed Studio XIAO SAMD21, which is a $5.40 board with Arduino IDE compatibility and similar speed to the Teensy LC (it is also an ARM Cortex M0+) with 11 pins that can be configured to be analog inputs. I’m also considering the Seeed Studio XIAO RP2040, which is the same price, with a much faster processor and more RAM, but only 4 analog inputs. I’ve not looked at the ADCs on these two chips, but I think that they are lower resolution than the Teensy LC. I’ve also not looked at what timer options are available for doing PteroDAQ frequency channels.
Sigh, the Teensy LC was such a good board for the course—it is sad to see it gone without a replacement that has as good an ADC at a reasonable price point.
I’m pretty busy with my Cabrillo classes (improv and theater design) and with my other acting stuff, so I probably won’t get a chance to work on PteroDAQ until this summer.
The Amazon link for my Applied Analog Electronics textbook (https://www.amazon.com/Applied-Analog-Electronics-First-Course/dp/9811254966) just went from pre-release sales to fully live (2023 August 8). They are selling the hardback (978-981-125-441-3) for $176.30 and paperback (978-981-125-496-3) for $85.03, which is 11–13% less than the list price from World Scientific Publishing.
If you liked my book or course, go ahead and leave reviews there (though you should mention that you used a pre-publication draft of the book)! Reviews are important to book sales, but there aren’t any yet.
The PDF of the book (with the same content, but different pagination and different cover) is still available through LeanPub for $7.99 at https://leanpub.com/applied_analog_electronics. I get a little bit smaller royalties per copy from these sales (unless you pay the “recommended price” of $14.99, instead of the “minimum price” of $7.99), but I really wanted to make sure that a non-pirated, low-cost option remained available for students, so I got the publisher to agree to a contract that allowed me to sell electronic versions on LeanPub or on my own website (should I ever have one that enables sales). Also anyone who bought the LeanPub edition (even with the free coupons I distributed to the class) can get the latest version of the PDF for free by logging into the LeanPub site.
Note: this post updates the earlier Amazon site live! post.
Digilent has announced a price reduction on the Analog Discovery2 (back to pre-pandemic prices: $299 for anyone and $199 academic pricing). The impetus for the price reduction is that they have brought out the Analog Discovery 3 ($379 and $249 academic), which has slightly better specs (25% higher sampling rate, 14% higher current power supply, double the buffer size). The software and hardware interfaces are otherwise identical.
The Amazon link for my Applied Analog Electronics textbook (https://www.amazon.com/Applied-Analog-Electronics-First-Course/dp/9811254966) just went live (2023 June 19). They are selling the hardback (978-981-125-441-3) for $184 and paperback (978-981-125-496-3) for $94, which is $4 less than the list price from World Scientific Publishing. (Technically, the Amazon launch date is 2023 August 6—so until then are just pre-orders.)
If you liked my book or course, go ahead and leave reviews there (though you should mention that you used a pre-publication draft of the book)!
The PDF of the book (with the same content, but different pagination and different cover) is still available through LeanPub for $7.99 at https://leanpub.com/applied_analog_electronics. I get a little bit smaller royalties per copy from these sales (unless you pay the “recommended price” of $14.99, instead of the “minimum price” of $7.99), but I really wanted to make sure that a non-pirated, low-cost option remained available for students, so I got the publisher to agree to a contract that allowed me to sell electronic versions on LeanPub or on my own website (should I ever have one that enables sales).
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