Electronic for Chemists

This book is part of a series of publications intended to introduce chemists and physicists to the design of laboratory equipment in order to create an autonomous and low-cost "ChemLab".

Beyond the economic reason, the main purpose of this project is to serve as an educational support, to initiate a frugal approach to innovation (consumption of less energy or renewable energy sources) and finally to promote the reuse of obsolete components or objects.

However, in working towards the design of this equipment, it is essential to understand the basics of electronics and robotics, and to have the necessary equipment for an electronics laboratory, which will serve as a foundation for the design of physics and chemistry equipment.

This eBook, "Electronic for Chemists", is the first in a series that will cover the design of sensors, the manufacture of voltage generators, an oscilloscope and an electrical function generator. These essential pieces will provide the electronics laboratory and the necessary tools to design potential equipment for chemistry and physics.

This book covers the basic components of electronics (resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, etc.) and there remarkable circuits, amplifiers, filters and Fourier transforms, logic gates, common electronic operations (such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, derivation, integration...) for data management, the generation of alternating signals, the operation of motors and the initiation of control cards including special feature of the C++ programming for chemistry and physics equipment.

Let's not forget that we cannot expect a chemist to become an expert in sensors, measuring electronics and microprocessors... However, we can educate him or her in the simple and basic principles and then invite him or her to participate in the open source movements to enrich himself or herself and the community of "hackers" and "doers". In this sense, this book has been written in the hope that readers will fill in the missing pages!